The College of Materials Science and Engineering of Southwest University is another new college established in 2003 to realize the all-round development of colleges and universities, take the road of comprehensive development and strengthen the development of engineering foundation. The college is located in the former Wuyi College with beautiful environment, with Professor Zeng Sumin, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, as honorary president. Teachers with doctorates account for 80% of the teaching staff. Based on the principle of high starting point and forward-looking development, the college takes "improving the level, enriching the connotation, highlighting the characteristics and accelerating the development" as the overall goal, focusing on the construction of teaching staff, taking discipline construction as the breakthrough point, taking undergraduate teaching as the foundation, taking postgraduate education as the direction and Industry-University-Research as the goal, and concentrating its limited strength to give full play to its own advantages, striving to make the college pay equal attention to scientific research and teaching, extension development and connotation construction in the next four years.

The college has master's programs in materials physics and chemistry, materials science and undergraduate majors in materials physics. It mainly trains material physics professionals with socialist consciousness, noble moral character, solid specialty, reasonable knowledge structure and good comprehensive quality, and will systematically learn the basic knowledge, basic principles and experimental skills in material preparation (or synthesis), material processing, material structure and performance measurement, material application, etc., and understand the theoretical frontier, application prospect and latest development trends of material physics. And the development of materials science and engineering, master a foreign language skillfully, reach a higher level of Mandarin, have basic knowledge and experimental skills related to materials physics, have certain innovation and practical ability, and be able to engage in production, teaching, scientific research and other related work in materials science and engineering and related fields.

College teaching and research section includes materials science teaching and research section and materials physics teaching and research section; The laboratory includes material science laboratory, heat treatment laboratory, material analysis laboratory, high vacuum coating laboratory and nano-material laboratory. The college has more than 4000 square meters of office, teaching, experiment and scientific research places, equipped with advanced office, teaching and scientific research experimental equipment; It has teaching and scientific research infrastructure such as teaching room, electronic reading room, computer room and scientific and technological literature reference room.

With the working philosophy of "focusing on quality and innovation", the college has gradually formed a good style of study from ideological construction and system construction. Combining teaching style with study style, taking the construction of study style as a systematic project, the construction of study style and college work are organically combined and promoted each other.

In terms of students' activities, the college is guided by the leadership ideology, and students are free to play a combination policy, so that students can give full play to their initiative and talents. At the beginning of the college's establishment, a study working group was set up to organize students to carry out colorful extracurricular cultural activities, which made students "move" and provided a good platform for students to carry out quality education.

Excellent graduates of this major can study for master's degree in materials physics and chemistry without examination, and can also engage in teaching, research, development, production and management in schools, research institutes, enterprises and institutions in the electronic information industry.