In the long-term construction and development process, the school has formed distinctive features in teacher education and agricultural education, and trained more than 200,000 talents for the country.
The school has obvious advantages in pedagogy, psychology and agronomy. The research of silkworm genome is at the international leading level, and the research of basic psychology, pedagogy and other disciplines has reached the domestic leading level, and a large number of important scientific research achievements marked by natural no-tillage method, silkworm gene bank, southwest ethnic education and psychological research, and human time cognition research have been achieved. The school has popularized and applied hundreds of new achievements and technologies, and achieved remarkable economic and social benefits.
On September 28th, 20 12, the Graduate School of Southwest University was established. Zhang Weiguo, president of Southwest University, said that the school will build about 10 research-oriented high-level talent training bases, and by 20 15, the total number of full-time graduate students will reach18,000. Huang, deputy director of the Department of Degree Management and Postgraduate Education of the Ministry of Education, introduced at the subsequent forum that since then, 57 universities have established graduate schools.