Xihua university is a national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in the Midwest", a high-level college with applied characteristics in Sichuan Province, a key university with outstanding engineer education and training plan in Sichuan Province, a first-class discipline construction university in Sichuan Province, and a hundred universities with undergraduate teaching quality project in Sichuan Province.

The school's running level and teaching level have been improved year by year, and it has become an influential comprehensive university in Sichuan Province and Southwest China, ranking in the 23rd batch of undergraduate universities.

According to the classification of universities by China Higher Education Degree and Postgraduate Education Development Center, xihua university is an ordinary university at the undergraduate level.