Southwest University, short for Xida, is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. It is jointly built by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Chongqing Municipal People's Government.

It is a world-class discipline-building university, ranking 211 and 985 as the dominant discipline innovation platform.

The school insists on taking the training of talents as the basis, and cultivates high-quality talents with strong sense of social responsibility, profound humanities, solid professional knowledge, innovative spirit and practical ability.

The school currently has 37 colleges (departments) and 105 undergraduate majors, including 20 national characteristic majors and 37 Chongqing characteristic majors.