Southwest University of Science and Technology, referred to as "Southwest University of Science and Technology", is located in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, China Science and Technology City. It was established by the Ministry of Education, the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the Sichuan Provincial People's Government. It is one of the key universities in the western region 14, and one of the designated universities for comprehensive innovation and reform experiments in Sichuan Province. It has been selected into the national "Basic Capacity Building Project of Colleges and Universities in the Midwest", the "Double First-class" construction plan of Sichuan Province, the education and training plan of outstanding engineers of the Ministry of Education, the "Double Million Plan", the national innovation and entrepreneurship training plan of college students, the national new engineering research and practice project, the education and training plan of outstanding legal talents in Sichuan Province, the education and training plan of outstanding agricultural and forestry talents in Sichuan Province, and the Sichuan 201kloc-0/plan.
On August 23, 2000, under the background of deepening the reform of higher education system, developing the western region and building China (Mianyang) Science and Technology City, the Ministry of Education approved the merger of Southwest Institute of Technology and Mianyang Institute of Economics and Technology to form Southwest University of Science and Technology. ?
As of July 2023, the school campus now covers an area of 5,463 mu, with a building area of1190,000 square meters, total fixed assets of 2.7 billion yuan, teaching and research instruments and equipment worth 887 million yuan, 2.53 million paper books and 7.56 million electronic books.
National Defense Institute of Technology and other 16 colleges offer 85 undergraduate majors. There are postdoctoral research mobile stations 1 unit, five doctoral degree authorization points in first-level disciplines and eight doctoral degree authorization points in two disciplines1unit; There are 24 master's degree authorization points in the first-level discipline and 88 master's degree authorization points in two disciplines; The master's degree category is15; There are more than 2,690 faculty members, including more than 39,000 graduate students, ordinary undergraduates and foreign students.