Chongqing institute of technology is a full-time public ordinary undergraduate course colleges and universities, started in 1951 by the two schools and maintain the good reputation of the original central ministries and belongs to the school, chongqing industrial college and the petroleum colleges (national demonstration high designed key construction school) was formed, in May 2004 approved by the ministry of education officially. School education is the national outstanding engineers training plan of pilot units, the national application technology university (college), vice director of the unit, the national league newly built undergraduate course colleges and universities alliance vice President of units, chongqing city, chairman of the union transformation and development in colleges and universities, was named the national innovative entrepreneurial typical experience of colleges and universities, colleges and universities nationwide to deepen reform of creative education model. In 2018, the school is approved to become a master's degree awarded unit.

School covers an area of 2200 mu, building area of more than 60 square meters, the total value of 382 million yuan of teaching facilities. Located in chongqing college town covers an area of 1500 acres of new campus east of gele mountain national forest park, west jinyun mountain national forest park, the geographical superiority, learning, life, and cultural and sports facilities are complete, is the chongqing municipal "civilized unit" and "garden unit". The school library building area of more than 42000 square meters, has 2.936 million books, and has a large number of digital information resources.