The origin of School of Economics and Management of Southwest University can be traced back to 1952. It is composed of economic management disciplines such as Sichuan University, Guizhou University and North Sichuan University, as well as a group of returned professors such as Harvard University and Cornell University. Adhering to the school's century-old culture, the college has a long history. Since its establishment in the early 1950s, it has been inherited for nearly 60 years, with remarkable achievements, connecting the past with the future. Through the efforts of several generations of administrators, it has developed into an advantageous college with strong faculty, distinctive discipline characteristics, outstanding scientific research achievements, advanced teaching reform and strong development momentum.
At present, the college has eight departments, including agriculture and forestry economic management department, accounting department, enterprise management department, tourism management department, logistics and marketing department, economics department, finance department and international trade department. The discipline spans two major disciplines: economics and management, with doctoral degree authorization points in both management and economics, forming a dominant discipline group with doctoral degree authorization points and postdoctoral research mobile stations as the core, as well as a multi-level school-running system for undergraduate, master and doctoral students. Among them, agricultural and forestry economic management, applied economics and business administration are the key disciplines in Chongqing.
The college has faculty 153 and full-time teachers 125. Among them, there are 25 professors, doctoral supervisor 13, associate professor 5 1 person, master supervisor 47, doctor 66, and overseas study experience 3 1 person; National experts with outstanding contributions 1 person, winners of the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education 1 person, 4 people enjoying the special government allowance of the State Council, distinguished professor 1 person, Chongqing "Bashu Scholars" 1 person, 2 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions in Chongqing, 3 winners of the Excellent Talents Support Program in Chongqing and Chongqing.
The college has recruited and trained undergraduates, master students and doctoral students in economics and management for more than 60 years, and trained more than 40,000 undergraduates, 3,000 master students and 200 doctoral students. Students are distributed in various industries, and more than 50% have become the backbone or leaders of the unit, which has been widely praised by employers. There are more than 4,000 students studying undergraduate, master's, doctoral, MBA, MPAcc, MTA, MF, MI, MV, MAE and other degree programs. The college's international school-running concept and excellent school-running conditions attract international students from all over the world, with about 100 foreign students in school. The college has also signed student exchange agreements with a number of well-known overseas institutions, which can provide all kinds of students with opportunities for exchange and study in overseas institutions every year.
The College has always adhered to the policy of "invigorating the College by academics and strengthening the College by talents" and promoted the rapid development of discipline team construction and scientific research. Since the beginning of this century, it has undertaken 2 key scientific and technological projects of the Tenth Five-Year Plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 2 major bidding projects of the National Social Science Fund, 1 major soft science research project of the Ministry of Science and Technology 1, 1 major research project of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education 1, more than 40 national projects such as the National Natural Science Fund, the National Social Science Fund and the National Soft Science Research Project, and more than 300 provincial and ministerial projects, with a total research funding of more than 50 million yuan. More than 60 translation monographs and national and ministerial planning textbooks have been published, and more than 600 academic papers have been published in international and domestic authoritative journals such as Economic Research, Managing the World, Agricultural Economics, Economic Modeling and British Journal of Management. Won more than 80 teaching and scientific research achievement awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level; Among them, the Ministry of Education China University won two first prizes in humanities and social sciences.
The School of Economics and Management of Southwest University will focus on the development goal of "creating a high-level comprehensive university with distinctive characteristics", integrate its strength, seize the opportunity, take advantage of the situation and keep fighting!