This university has a staff of 2,506, of whom 261 are full professors, senior engineers and other senior professionals, and 574 are associate professors, associate senior engineers and other associate senior professionals. There are 1,630 full-time teachers, including 1 Chinese Academy of Engineering academicians, 2 State Council Academic Degrees Committee members, 2 “National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars” receivers, 2 Distinguished “Changjiang Scholars Program” Professors, 1 “Sichuan Spire Talents Training Project” candidates, and 9 “New Century Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Project” candidates.  

SWPU has 111 scientific research bases on all levels, which have undertaken 2,679 government research projects and 3,757 petroleum industry sponsored research projects since the initiation of China’s 12^th Five-Year Plan. SWPU has been awarded the grand prize and first prize of “National Science and Technology Progress” and the second prize of “National Science and Technology Progress and Invention”, totaling 133 times; the university has been awarded state-level teaching achievement prizes and ministerial-level teaching achievement prizes, the former amounting to 8 times while the latter 84 times.  

For academic exchanges and research collaboration, SWPU has established close ties with universities and academic research institutions in the United States, Russia, Britain, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, etc.  

SWPU has two campuses, one in Chengdu and the other in Nanchong, covering an area of over 200 ha. The current student body on the two campuses includes29,367 undergraduates, 4,037 graduates, 700 PhD candidates and 301 international students. So far SWPU has produced more than 146,000 bachelors, masters and doctors, many of whom have stablished themselves as preeminent specialists and scholars, great statesmen, successful entrepreneurs, or technological and managerial backbones in various fields.  

In the spirit of “fuel up our country and gas up our nation”, and in keeping with the motto of “righteous deed, persistent quest, extensive learning and creative mind”, SWPU has formulated a “second-time pioneering strategy” to achieve the goals of becoming a first-class university in China and getting the leading-edge programs recognized worldwide before celebrating her 100^thanniversary.