Southwest University, located under Jinyun Mountain in Beibei District, Chongqing, is the national "21Project", "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform", "1/65438 Plan" and "20 165438 Plan".
The school was formed in 2005 by the merger of Southwest Normal University, a university directly under the former Ministry of Education, and Southwest Agricultural University, a key university directly under the former Ministry of Agriculture. The original two schools were built adjacent to each other and of the same origin, and both started to open a new Chinese school in the southwest on 1906. After several developments, it has become the Southwest University directly under the Central Ministry of Education jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Chongqing Municipality.
Southwest University is a comprehensive national key university with the coordinated development of traditional disciplines and emerging interdisciplinary disciplines, natural sciences and humanities and social sciences. It is one of the 72 universities directly under the central government, one of the eight key universities determined by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Agriculture, one of the six pilot universities for free normal education in China, one of the first pilot universities for the reform of the national education system, one of the four key universities in the regional planning and deployment of Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone, and the first batch of authorized units for doctoral and master's degrees in China. National independent selection and admission reform pilot colleges and universities; Excellent universities in undergraduate teaching evaluation of the Ministry of Education; National advanced collective for employment of college graduates; It is a national-level college students' cultural quality education base and the lead unit of Chongqing film "National College Students' Cultural Quality Education Base". It is one of the 60 cooperative universities in the national high-level university postgraduate construction project and one of the founding schools of Chongqing University Alliance.