1. 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 "21project" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform", 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.

2. The school dates back to the East Sichuan Normal School established in 1906, and 1936 was renamed Sichuan Education College. 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.

3. By March of 20021year, the main school was 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; 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); There are 3 120 full-time teachers, nearly 40,000 undergraduates, nearly13,000 master students and doctoral students, and nearly 2,000 international students.