Sichuan University's research on South Asia is the strongest in China, and the South Asia Institute is the humanities and social science base of the Ministry of Education (equivalent to the National Key Laboratory of Science and Engineering).

Comparative literature and world literature of Sichuan University are old-fashioned national key disciplines (only Peking University and Sichuan University are national key disciplines in China), and now they are important components of Sichuan University's first-class national key disciplines in China. The latest ranking of comparative literature in world literature, Sichuan University should be national 1.