Southwest University, founded in 1906, located in Chongqing, is a comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education of China jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Chongqing Municipal Government, and is a "double-class" world-class discipline construction university.

Southwest University has 53 first-level disciplines, including 3 national key disciplines, 2 national key (cultivation) disciplines, 28 first-level disciplines have the right to award doctoral degrees, 5 1 first-level disciplines have the right to award master's degrees, there are 1 professional doctoral degrees and 19 professional master's degrees, there are 22 post-doctoral research stations and 8.

Southwest University has 2,968 full-time teachers, including 572 professors, 33 doctoral supervisors, 398 master supervisors, 65,438 academicians of China Academy of Sciences and 65,438 academicians of China Academy of Engineering.

There are 2 winners of "National Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars", 2 chief scientists of "973 Project", 8 national candidates of "Hundred Million Talents Project" 12, 8 members of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and Discipline Evaluation Group, 4 national teaching teams and 3 innovative teams of Ministry of Education.

Southwest University has 20 national specialties, 33 Chongqing specialties, 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 national virtual simulation experiment centers, Chongqing experimental teaching demonstration center 13, 46 national excellent courses, 96 Chongqing excellent courses, and national college students' cultural quality education base 1 3.