First, school profile:
Southwest University, located in Beibei District of Chongqing, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and built by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Chongqing. It is also the receiving institution of the national undergraduate innovation experiment plan, the national undergraduate innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, the national construction of high-level university graduate programs, the national undergraduate cultural quality education base, and the China Municipal Government scholarship for international students in China.
The school can be traced back to East Sichuan Normal School, which was established in 1906. 1936 was renamed Sichuan Institute of Education. 1950, Sichuan Institute of Education merged with the National Women's Teachers College to form Southwest Normal College, and the departments of agriculture, horticulture and agricultural products manufacturing merged with the private Xianghui College founded by 1946 to form Southwest Agricultural College.
From 65438 to 0985, the two schools were renamed Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University respectively. In 2000, Chongqing Light Industry Vocational College merged into Southwest Normal University, and in 200 1 year, 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.
As of June 2023, the school covers an area of about 8,347 mu, with a school building area of 1.93 million square meters. There are 46 teaching units, 102 undergraduate majors, 29 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 54 first-level discipline master degree authorization points, 2 professional doctoral degrees, 27 professional master degrees, 27 postdoctoral research stations and full-time teachers.
Second, cooperation and exchanges:
By June 2023, the school has actively promoted the internationalization process and established long-term friendly cooperative relations with more than 200 scientific research institutions in universities in more than 40 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Australia and Russia.
The school has 1 non-independent legal entity with Chinese-foreign cooperative education, 6 undergraduate majors with Chinese-foreign cooperative education, 3 international cooperative laboratories 13, 7 overseas international Chinese education institutions, 0 overseas education platforms 1 and 0 overseas education projects 1.