Economics major of Southwest University of Science and Technology is the trump card major of School of Economics and Management, and it is also the only major in liberal arts. The construction of this major began at 1978. After years of professional construction and reform, it has an excellent teaching team in Sichuan Province, academic and technical leaders and reserve candidates in Sichuan Province, and famous teachers in Sichuan Province. In addition, the economics major of Southwest University of Science and Technology also has 1 provincial-level excellent courses, national-level network excellent courses and many school-level excellent courses.

In 2022, Southwest University of Science and Technology ranked 196 among national undergraduate universities and ranked 9th among provincial universities.

Southwest University of Science and Technology is located in China Science and Technology City-Mianyang City, Sichuan Province. The school is jointly established by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education, and jointly established by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government and the National Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. It was identified as one of the western 14 universities by the Ministry of Education.

The school now has 16 colleges (departments), including National Institute of Defense Technology, and 83 undergraduate majors in 9 disciplines including engineering, agriculture, science, economics, law, literature, management, education and art. There are 5 doctoral degree authorization points in the first-level discipline and 8 doctoral degree authorization points in two disciplines/kloc-0; There are 24 first-class master's degree authorization points and 88 master's degree authorization points in two disciplines; The master's degree category is 15.

Dominant disciplines:

There are two "double first-class" construction disciplines (groups) in Sichuan Province, four provincial dominant disciplines, one provincial key discipline 1 1, one national defense basic discipline 1 approved by the National Defense Science and Technology Bureau, and five national defense characteristic disciplines. Materials science, engineering science and chemistry entered the top of ESI ranking 1%, among which materials science and engineering science entered the top 5‰ of ESI ranking.