Chengdu university has 19 colleges, including industrial manufacturing college, urban and rural construction college, information science and technology college (software industry college), electronic and information engineering college, biological industry college, economic management college, political college, tourism and cultural industry college, literature and journalism college, foreign languages college, fine arts college, art college, medical college, normal college, preschool education college, physical education college, international college. The school has 50 undergraduate majors and 30 junior majors, with nearly 30,000 students of all kinds.

Chengdu University is located in the west section of Chengluo Avenue under the jurisdiction of Shiling Sub-district Office (formerly Shiling Town) in Longquanyi District, Chengdu, about 1 km away from the East Third Ring Road, between the Third Ring Road, Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway, Chengnan Expressway and Chengdu Ring Expressway. Convenient transportation, about 10km from Tianfu Square.

The College of Urban and Rural Construction has a department of landscape architecture design and adult education.