Southwest University, located in Beibei District of Chongqing, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Chongqing Municipality.

The school can be traced back to East Sichuan Normal School as early as 1906, and 1936 was renamed Sichuan Institute of Education. 1950, Sichuan Institute of Education merged with the National Women's Teachers College to form Southwest Normal College, and the departments of agriculture, horticulture and agricultural products manufacturing merged with the private Xianghui College founded by 1946 to form Southwest Agricultural College.

From 65438 to 0985, the two schools were renamed Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University respectively. In 2000, Chongqing Light Industry Vocational College was merged into Southwest Normal University; 200 1, Southwest Agricultural University, Sichuan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College and Citrus Institute of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences merged to form a new Southwest Agricultural University. In 2005, Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University merged to form Southwest University.

As of June 2023, 5438+ 10, the school covers an area of about 8347 mu, and the school building area is10.93 million square meters; There are 44 teaching units offering 102 undergraduate majors; There are 29 authorized points for doctoral degrees in first-class disciplines and 54 authorized points for master degrees in first-class disciplines.

2 professional doctors, 27 professional masters and 27 post-doctoral research stations (workstations); There are 32 full-time teachers19, nearly 40,000 undergraduates, more than 50,000 master students and doctoral students 15, and nearly 2,000 international students.