Southwest University is a key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Chongqing Municipality. It is the first batch of "double first-class" universities, "2 1 1 engineering" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform" in China. Professor Li Xufeng, Party Secretary, and Professor Zhang Weiguo, President.
The main school is located in Beibei District, Chongqing, at the foot of Jinyun Mountain and beside Jialing River, covering an area of about 8,347 mu, with a school building area of 1.93 million square meters and a green space rate of 40%. This is a magnificent and solemn campus full of weather. It is a well-known garden-style school in China and a civilized campus commended by the Ministry of Education.
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.
For more than a hundred years, Lu Lanyu has been brilliant. Generation after generation of Southwest University students forged the university spirit of "learning from the southwest and the world" with the spirit of perseverance and self-improvement, and constantly enriched the school motto of "carrying forward the past and opening up the future".
For more than a hundred years, the school has always taken the country's prosperity and national rejuvenation as its own responsibility, promoted the altar to educate people, and advised farmers to cultivate mulberry, which has accumulated profound humanistic heritage. A large number of famous teachers and sages once taught here, and the spring breeze turned into rain. Hundreds of thousands of graduates have traveled from here to all directions, becoming builders of the great cause of national rejuvenation and the backbone of all walks of life.
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, 29 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 54 first-class discipline master degree authorization points, 2 professional doctoral degrees, 27 professional master degrees and 27 post-doctoral research stations (workstations).