It is a university with forestry as the main discipline, bio-environmental discipline as the feature, and interdisciplinary development of agriculture, science, engineering, literature, law, management and teaching. It was selected into the national "Basic Capacity Building Project of Universities in the Midwest", "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" and "Excellent Agriculture and Forestry Talents Education and Training Plan".
198 1 became the first batch of master's degree awarding units approved by the State Council, and was approved as a doctoral degree awarding unit in 20 13.
The school started from 1939 Department of Forestry of Yunnan University, and passed through Kunming Agriculture and Forestry College, Yunnan Forestry College, Yunnan Forestry College, Southwest Forestry College and Southwest Forestry University.
1978 was established independently, and was originally a college directly under the Ministry of Forestry. 1983 was renamed Southwest Forestry College, which is one of the six regional forestry colleges directly under the former Ministry of Forestry. In 2000, it was reorganized into an institution of higher learning, which was established by the provincial department and mainly managed by the province. 20 10 was renamed as Southwest Forestry University.
There are full-time undergraduate students 1645 1 person, full-time graduate students 1230, and more than 40 foreign students. The building area of the school building is 450,000 square meters; The total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 65.438+0.23 billion yuan; The school has 30 teaching units and 72 undergraduate majors and directions; Faculty 12 19, of which 107 is a full-time high-level employee.
achievements in scientific research
In 2006 -20 14, the school added 1700 scientific research projects, including National Natural Science Foundation 1 1, Social Science Foundation 9, and won the National Science and Technology Progress Award 1, 33 provincial science and technology awards and scientific research achievements.
In the past five years, the school's scientific research funding was 65.438+0.6 billion yuan; He won 2 second prizes for national scientific and technological progress and 62 provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievement prizes, including the first and second prizes for scientific and technological achievements of the Ministry of Education 1, the first prize for national engineering consultation 1, the outstanding innovation prize for environmental protection of the Field Museum in Chicago, USA 1, and 4 first prizes for provincial natural science; Undertake 477 scientific research projects, including 47 national projects and 90 provincial and ministerial projects; Published 2423 academic papers, 64 academic monographs (edited) and 28 intellectual property achievements.
Second prize of national scientific and technological progress (2 items): "Triploid Populus tomentosa" (Duan An 'an), "Research and development and industrialized production technology of moisture-proof particleboard" (Professor Du Guanben's project team) First prize of Yunnan Natural Science (1 item): Second prize of Yunnan Natural Science for basic research on ecological and biological characteristics and development and utilization of rare bamboo species (Du Fan in 2006) (65433).