Southwest University, referred to as "Xida University", is located in Chongqing. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and jointly established with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Chongqing Municipality. It ranks among the national "double-first-class", "21engineering", "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform" and "double-first-class" member universities of the Agricultural Federation.

Selected in "11/plan", "201/plan", "Hundred Schools Project", outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, outstanding teachers training plan, national college students' innovation experiment plan, national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan and national high-level university public postgraduate plan.

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.

38 teaching units, 102 undergraduate majors; There are 28 authorized points for doctoral degrees in first-class disciplines, 5 1 authorized points for master's degrees in first-class disciplines, 24 professional master's degrees, and 27 post-doctoral research stations (workstations); Full-time teachers are 3 1 10, with nearly 40,000 undergraduates, nearly13,000 master students and doctoral students, and nearly 2,000 international students.