Southwest Petroleum University (SWPU), with its main campus in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, Sichuan and China Oil and Gas Group Co., Ltd. and sinopec group and China Offshore Oil Group Co., Ltd.;

It is a national "double-first-class" university, and has been selected into the basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions, the national "1/plan", the national "characteristic key discipline project", the national high-level university construction graduate program, the national innovative talent training demonstration base, the national university practical education and innovation and entrepreneurship base, and the China government scholarship receiving institution for international students in China;

The first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education are members of the Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle University Alliance and the Sino-Russian "Yangtze River-Volga River" University Alliance. ?

1958, Sichuan Petroleum Institute was established in Nanchong, which was under the former Ministry of Petroleum Industry; 1970, renamed Southwest Petroleum Institute; In 2000, the school was transferred to Sichuan Province, which was jointly built by the central and local governments. In 2002, the main body of the school moved to Xindu District, Chengdu; In 2004, Sichuan University of Political Science and Law merged; In 2005, the school was renamed Southwest Petroleum University.

20 18 Sichuan Provincial People's Government, China Petroleum and Natural Gas Group Co., Ltd., China Petrochemical Corporation and China Offshore Oil Group Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to build a world-class discipline construction university (Southwest Petroleum University). ?

As of June, 2022 165438+ 10, the school has two campuses, Chengdu and Nanchong, covering a total area of more than 3,000 mu. There are 19 teaching departments and 78 undergraduate majors; 5 in Post-Doctoral Research Center, the national "double first-class" construction discipline 1; 5 first-class doctoral programs and 22 first-class master programs;

There are 39,788 students, including 3 undergraduates1021person, 72 postgraduates19, doctoral students 1055, and 493 foreign students with academic qualifications.