Southwestern University of Finance and Economics is located in Chengdu, the provincial capital. People's Republic of China (PRC) is directly under the Ministry of Education. China's first "double-top" world-class discipline was established in colleges and universities. The national "2 1 1 engineering" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform" are key universities.

The founding members of the Central Enterprise Alliance include "20 1 1 Plan", the humanities and social sciences research base of the Ministry of Education, the national economic talent training base, the national deepening of the postgraduate training program for high-level universities, and the reform of the education model for government scholarships in major universities across the country. With economic management as the main body and finance as the focus, it is known as "China Financial Talent Pool".

The school has a strong faculty, with more than 2,650 full-time teachers and more than 300 full-time researchers, including associate professors (associate researchers) 1000 and 252 doctoral supervisors.