Taking Chinese literature pool and Chinese academic journal (online) in CNKI as the data source, this paper carried out a statistical analysis on the academic papers of 34 private universities in Sichuan province in recent five years, from the perspective of output, cited frequency, the number of prolific authors, the ratio of core thesis and fund papers, and revealed the development status of scientific research in the private universities of Sichuan province in detail, and put forward the suggestions.