Southwest University is a key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education 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", the national "21project" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform", and the "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 main school is located in Beibei District, Chongqing, covering an area of more than 8,000 mu, with a school building area of 1.87 million square meters. There are 38 teaching units, 103 undergraduate majors; At present, there are 28 authorized points for doctoral degrees in first-class disciplines, 5 1 authorized points for master's degrees in first-class disciplines, 24 professional master's degrees and 27 post-doctoral research stations (workstations).