School of Architecture and Engineering, adhering to the fundamental task of cultivating talents with a high moral standard and its goal of developing high-quality application-oriented technology talents, is committed to cultivating front-line engineering talents with design, construction, and managerial skills tailored to the enterprise and employment standards. Currently, the school boasts four departments, offering architecture and engineering programs for undergraduates and three other specialized programs, including architecture and engineering technology, engineering cost, and landscape engineering technology.

The school provides quality courses to over 600 students with its practicing and licensed teaching faculty, six of whom are in senior technical positions, 20 of whom have master's degrees or above. Furthermore, more than 46% of the full-time teachers have three years or more of working experience in enterprises, and 15 teachers have qualification certificates, ranging from registered constructors, registered cost engineers, registered structural engineers, registered rock engineers, and registered surveyors. The proportion of teachers with double-qualified credentials reaches 66%.

Zhu Xiaoli, Dean of the School, graduated from Southwest University with a master degree and is a professor-level senior engineer, leader in architecture and engineering technology, backbone teacher, dual-shoulder teacher, and double-qualified credentials teacher, registered surveyor, a constructor of engineering, an associate constructor of municipal public utilities, registered cost engineer, national construction estimator. He acted as the Chongqing Rural Land Consolidation Planning and Design and Budget Preparation Unit's technical director of land reclamation for production and construction projects. He is a member of the expert database for rural land remediation.

The school is equipped with an engineering drawing experimental training room, a bidding experimental training room, a measurement experimental training room, a soil mechanics training room, a building materials experimental training room, a testing experimental training room, a structural mechanics and material mechanics experimental training room, and on-campus engineering practice centers such as the BIM Innovation Center and the Engineering Surveying and Mapping Center. Moreover, it has built 50 off-campus internship training and employment bases in cooperation with well-known enterprises such as Central South Construction Group, Ltd., Shanghai Longilat Architectural Design & Research Institute Corporation (LDG) , Glodon Co., Ltd., and Oriental Investment Supervision Company.

In recent years, students have performed outstandingly in competitions such as the National University BIM Application Skills Competition and the National University Structural Design Competition. They have won more than 50 national and Shanghai-level awards. The school always values developing students in an all-around way in various programs and activities, and employers and society have widely recognized the quality of graduates.