Southwest Forestry University is the only independent undergraduate course university in western China that takes forestry, forestry engineering and landscape architecture as its traditional advantages, features biology and environmental science and engineering, and coordinates the development of science, engineering, agriculture, literature, law and management. It is also the supporting unit of the national outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, the outstanding engineer education and training plan and the basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions.
The school actively adapts to the needs of economic and social development and constantly adjusts and optimizes the college structure. There are Forestry College (Asia-Pacific Forestry College), Materials Science and Engineering College, Garden and Horticulture College, Life Science College, Ecology and Environment College, Civil Engineering College, Biodiversity Conservation College, Big Data and Intelligent Engineering College, Mechanical and Transportation College, Geography and Ecotourism College, Wetland College, Mathematics and Physics College, Chemical Engineering College and Marxism College.
The school attaches great importance to exchanges and cooperation, and has signed cooperation agreements with more than 60 universities and research institutions in Canada, the United States, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, and in Taiwan Province Province, China.
There is a Confucius Institute at Bamako Humanities University in Mali, and the Confucius Classroom in Mali won the global advanced Confucius Classroom Award. Approved the undergraduate education project of mechanical and electronic engineering in cooperation with Russian Southern Ural State University.
Signed a cooperation agreement with the Forestry College of the University of British Columbia (UBC), signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Beijing Forestry University, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Pu 'er City, etc., and was approved as the Kunming Center of the Asia-Pacific Forest Organization, which continuously improved its ability and level of serving economic and social development.