Southwest University, located in Chongqing, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), co-founded with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Chongqing. It ranks among the member universities of the national "double first-class", "21engineering", "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform" and "double first-class" agricultural alliance. Selected in "11/plan", "201/plan", "Hundred Schools Project", outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, outstanding teachers training plan, national college students' innovation experiment plan, national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan and national high-level university public postgraduate plan.

The school has 53 first-level disciplines, 28 first-level doctoral programs, 5 1 first-level master programs, 1 professional doctoral programs, 19 professional master programs, and 22 post-doctoral research stations. The main achievements of discipline construction are as follows:

World-class discipline construction discipline: biology;

The results of the fourth round of subject evaluation by the Ministry of Education: Marxist theory A-, pedagogy A-, psychology A-, China language and literature B+, foreign language learning B+, chemistry B+, agricultural resources and environment B+, animal husbandry B+;

National key disciplines: basic psychology, curriculum and teaching theory, special economic animal breeding;

National key (cultivation) discipline: fruit tree science and ecology.