Southwest Forestry University is a comprehensive university located in Hengyang, a city in northern Sichuan, China. Founded in 1963, formerly known as the Forestry Department of Sichuan Agricultural College. 1978, the school was renamed as Southwest Forestry College, and since 1995, it has been named as the current school name.

With regard to the "undergraduate level", the school conducts a comprehensive evaluation every year according to the latest changes in the construction of national key disciplines of general undergraduate education and the implementation of high-level professional support programs in the province, and publicly determines the division of undergraduate levels.

The profile of Southwest Forestry University is as follows:

Southwest Forestry University, referred to as Southwest Forestry University, is located in Kunming, Yunnan Province. It is the first batch of colleges and universities established by the former Ministry of Forestry in cooperation with local governments. It features forestry, forestry engineering and landscape architecture, biology, environmental science and engineering.

Science, engineering, agriculture, literature, law, management and other disciplines have developed in a coordinated manner. It is a full-time general undergraduate college supported by the National Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talents Education and Training Plan, the Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan, the Basic Capacity Building Project of Central and Western Universities, and the First-class Discipline Construction University of Yunnan Province.

As of March 2023, the school covers an area of 2,544.58 mu, with 6,543,800 paper books, nearly 820,000 e-books, 23 Chinese and foreign language databases and more than 500,000 specimens.

There are 22 teaching units and 83 undergraduate majors; There are 3 postdoctoral research stations, 4 first-class doctoral programs, 1 first-class master programs 15, 65 two disciplines master programs, and professional master programs 15. There are 0/273 faculty members, 24,958 full-time undergraduates, 3,798 master students and 0/89 doctoral students.

1983 was renamed Southwest Forestry College, which is one of the six regional forestry undergraduate colleges directly under the Ministry of Forestry. In 2000, the school was transformed from a university directly under the former State Forestry Administration into a central and local * * * building, with provincial management as the main part. 20 10 was renamed as Southwest Forestry University.