Southwest University is a key comprehensive university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Chongqing. It is one of the six normal universities directly under the Ministry of Education. It is a national "2 1 1 engineering" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform" construction university, and has been selected as the world's "first-class discipline" construction university.

According to official website information in June 2020, Southwest University has 53 first-level disciplines, including 3 national key disciplines, 2 national key (cultivation) disciplines, 28 first-level disciplines have the right to award doctoral degrees, 5 1 first-level disciplines have the right to award master's degrees, 1 professional doctoral degrees and 19 professional master's degrees, and postdoctoral research.

Summary table of doctoral degree authorization points in first-level disciplines (28)

Category level 1 discipline code level 1 discipline name

philosophy

0 10 1

philosophy

economics

0202

applied economics

Legal science

0305

Marxist theory

pedagogy

040 1

pedagogy

0402

psychology

0403

Sports culture and sports science

literature

050 1

China Language and Literature

0502

Foreign language and literature

history

0602

Chinese history

0603

history of the world

Neo-Confucianism

070 1

mathematics

0703

chemistry

0705

geography

07 10

biology

07 13

ecology

07 14

statistics

engineering

08 12

Computer science and technology

0828

agricultural engineering

0832

food science and engineering

agriculture

090 1

Crop science

0902

gardening

0903

Agricultural resources and environment

0904

plant protection

0905

Animal husbandry science

0906

veterinarian

0908

aquatic product

Medical science

1007

pharmacy

manage

1203

Agricultural and forestry economic management