Southwest University is located in Beibei District, Chongqing, at the foot of Jinyun Mountain and beside Jialing River, covering an area of more than 8,000 mu, with a school building area of 1.87 million square meters and a green space rate of 40%. The school can be traced back to East Sichuan Normal School, which was established in 1906. Several generations later, it was renamed Sichuan Education College on 1936.

1950, the departments of education, Chinese, foreign languages, history, geography and mathematics of Sichuan Institute of Education merged with the National Women's Teachers College established in 1940 to form Southwest Normal College, and the departments of agronomy, horticulture and agricultural products manufacturing merged with the private Xianghui College established in 1946 to form Southwest Agricultural College.

From 65438 to 0985, the two schools were renamed Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University respectively. In 2000, Chongqing Light Industry Vocational College was merged into Southwest Normal University;

200 1, Southwest Agricultural University, Sichuan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College and Citrus Institute of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences merged to form a new Southwest Agricultural University. In 2005, Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University merged to form Southwest University, which opened a new chapter in the development of the school.

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The school has complete disciplines, strong comprehensiveness and distinctive features, covering philosophy, economics, law, teaching, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art and other disciplines 12.

Among them, there are 3 national key disciplines, 2 national key (cultivation) disciplines, 28 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 5 1 first-class discipline master degree authorization points, professional doctoral degrees 1 first-class discipline, 24 professional master degrees and 27 post-doctoral research stations (workstations).

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