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 "double first-class" universities, "2 1 1 engineering" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform" in China. Professor Li Xufeng, Party Secretary, and Professor Zhang Weiguo, President.
There are 2968 full-time teachers in the school, including 572 professors, associate professors115, doctoral supervisors 33 1, and master supervisors 1398. Academician of China Academy of Sciences 1 person, academician of China Academy of Engineering 1 person, senior professor 1 person, 3 national famous teachers, 5 national young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, winner of "Thousand Talents Program" 12, winner of "National Special Support Program" and winner of "Changjiang Scholar". There are 2 chief scientists of "973 Project", 2 national candidates of "100 Million Talents Project" 12, 8 members of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and Discipline Evaluation Team, 4 national teaching teams and 3 innovation teams of Ministry of Education.