Southwest University is a key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education, which is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Chongqing Municipality. It is the first batch of "world-class discipline construction universities", national 21/engineering and 985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform construction universities, and "double-class" agricultural alliance member universities.
Selected into the national "11/plan", "201/plan", "Hundred Schools Project", outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, excellent teachers training plan, national college students' innovation and experiment plan, national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, and national construction of high-level university graduate students.
The school can be traced back to East Sichuan Normal School as early as 1906, and 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 was merged into Southwest Normal University; 200 1, 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. ?
Cultural Tradition of Southwest University;
School motto: carry forward the past and forge ahead. Connotation of school motto: The school motto is a link between the past and the future, written by Mr. Gan Jiyong, then president of East Sichuan Normal University, at 1928. As far as the school is concerned, it should be broad and grand, inherit the century-old excellent tradition of running a school, and create a bright future for Southwest University.
For school administrators at all levels, they should be far-sighted, broad-minded, adhere to the concept of running a school for a hundred years, carry forward the fine traditions, shoulder the heavy responsibility of school development and realize the school planning goals; For teachers, we should learn to be honest and be a teacher, carry forward the past and forge ahead, and innovate; For students, we should strive for self-improvement, learn endlessly, and be honest and innovative.