Sichuan University, referred to as "Sichuan University", is located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and the Central Government of People's Republic of China (PRC). Ranked among the national "double-class", "21/project" and "985 project", and selected for "Everest Plan", "201plan" and "1plan".

Selected into the excellent engineer education and training program, excellent doctor education and training program, excellent legal talent education and training program, national public graduate program for building high-level universities, and national demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform.

It is a self-authorized degree auditing unit, a member of the Dean Association of China Graduate School, a member of the "Double First-class" medical construction alliance, and a self-marking university. It is a high-level research-oriented comprehensive university with national layout and key construction in the west.

The school was formed by the merger of Sichuan University, Chengdu University of Science and Technology and West China University of Medical Sciences. The former Sichuan University was founded in 1896 by Lu, Governor of Sichuan Province. It is the earliest modern institution of higher learning in southwest China.

The former Chengdu University of Science and Technology was the first batch of multidisciplinary engineering colleges established during the adjustment of departments in New China. The predecessor of the former West China University of Medical Sciences was the West China Sheikh University, which was founded by the Western Christian Church in Chengdu on 19 10. It is the earliest Western-style university in southwest China and one of the earliest universities in China to train graduate students.