The school has a national training base for basic talents in economics, a national cultural quality education base for college students and a national social science research base approved by the Ministry of Education, as well as nine undergraduate talent training bases in Sichuan Province, including finance, business administration, accounting, finance, statistics, financial management, international economy and trade, law and English. It has the first MBA and EMBA education base in Southwest China and the first batch of CPA training bases in China. It is a postgraduate training unit for Master of Accounting (MPAcc), Master of Law (J.M.) and Master of Management (MPA), and a pilot unit for modern distance education. In 2008, it became a pilot institution for independent selection and admission reform. It has the Simulated Bank Experimental Center of China People's Bank, the Foreign Language Examination Training Center for Overseas Candidates of the National Financial System (BFT) and the Overseas Training Center of china scholarship council-Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. It also has the provincial key laboratory-Financial Intelligence and Financial Engineering Laboratory and the national experimental teaching demonstration center-Economic Management Experimental Teaching Center. It also has a financial research experimental center, accounting computerization, statistical analysis and a number of professional laboratories in key disciplines specially built by the national "2 1 1 Project".

The school adheres to the tenet of "strengthening the school by learning", gives full play to the advantages of financial research and economic system reform research, and has formed the research characteristics of prospering economic science, serving financial undertakings and developing local economy around major theoretical and practical issues of national finance, western economic construction and social development. The school has China Financial Research Center, the key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, and a number of scientific research institutions such as Macroeconomic Research Center and China Western Economic Research Center. Since the reform and opening up, the school has obtained more than 8000 scientific research achievements/kloc-0, completed more than 400 important national and provincial (ministerial) scientific research projects and a number of influential horizontal application projects, and won nearly 300 national and provincial (ministerial) scientific research achievement awards. The achievements published by teachers and researchers have won many national, provincial and ministerial awards such as "Five One Projects". The Economist is an excellent social science periodical in China, which ranks among the "China Periodical Square" and "Double-effect Periodicals" of the State Press and Publication Administration, and is selected as the "Famous Column Construction of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education". Finance and economics science is the core periodical of national economy. The two periodicals have been selected as the top 100 social science periodicals in China for three consecutive years.

Tuition fees mainly depend on scores. If it is the top few, there are preferential conditions at public expense. Only when you are accepted will the tuition be paid by yourself.