Southwest Petroleum University enrolled 7960 students in 2022, including 609 1 in Chengdu campus and 65% in Nanchong campus 1 869, with boys accounting for 65% and girls accounting for 35%. The college with the highest proportion of girls is Foreign Languages College, male: female = 1: 5, and the college with the highest proportion of boys is Physical Education College, male: female = 8: 1.

Southwest Petroleum University, referred to as "Southwest Normal University" (SWPU), has its main campus in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, Sichuan and China Oil and Gas Group Co., Ltd., and sinopec group and China Offshore Oil Group Co., Ltd.

Southwest Petroleum University is a national "double-first-class" construction university, and has been selected into the basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions, the national "1/plan", the national "key discipline project with characteristics", the national high-level university construction graduate program, the national innovative talent training demonstration base, the national university practical education innovation and entrepreneurship base, and the China government scholarship receiving institution for international students in China.

1958, Sichuan Petroleum Institute was established in Nanchong, which was under the former Ministry of Petroleum Industry; 1970, renamed Southwest Petroleum Institute; In 2000, the school was transferred to Sichuan Province, which was jointly built by the central and local governments. In 2002, the main body of the school moved to Xindu District, Chengdu; In 2004, Sichuan University of Political Science and Law merged; In 2005, the school was renamed Southwest Petroleum University.

20 18 Sichuan Provincial People's Government, China Petroleum and Natural Gas Group Co., Ltd., China Petrochemical Corporation and China Offshore Oil Group Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to build a world-class discipline construction university (Southwest Petroleum University).