Southwest Jiaotong University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, the country's first "double first-class" "211 project" "characteristics of the 985 project" key construction and research universities with graduate schools, is located in China's historical and cultural city, the center of the country - Chengdu.

SWJTU is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, one of the first "Double First Class", "211 Project", "985 Project with Special Features", and a research university with a graduate school, located in Chengdu, a famous historical and cultural city in China and the center of the country. Founded in 1896, the university was formerly known as the Imperial Chinese Railway College in Shanhaiguan, which is the first higher education institution of engineering education in China and the birthplace of higher education in civil engineering, mining and metallurgical engineering, and transportation engineering in China, and also one of the two earliest origins of the "Jiaotong University", which is one of the two major universities in China. It is also one of the two earliest sources of "Jiaotong University". With the name of "Tangshan Jiaotong University" and "Tang Institute", the school is famous both at home and abroad, known as "Oriental Cornell", and Chairman Mao Zedong inscribed the name of the school. Since the establishment of the school, the school has been named the University of Communications Tangshan College of Engineering (Cheng), National University of Communications Guizhou Branch, China Communications University, Northern Jiaotong University, Tangshan Railway Institute and so on. The school has gone through two faculty adjustments, a large number of reputable departments in the country adjusted to support Tsinghua University, Tianjin University and other sister institutions. 1964, the school responded positively to the Party Central Committee's call for the construction of the "three lines" of internal relocation to Sichuan, 1972 renamed the Southwest Jiaotong University, the main body of the school moved to Chengdu in 1989, the school expanded in 2002 in Chengdu Hipu, and then moved to Chengdu in 2002 to build a new school. In 2002, the university expanded its new campus in Ripu, Chengdu. Existing Jiu Li, Ripu, Emei three campuses, *** covers an area of more than 5,000 acres. During the 126 years of running the university, the university has always adhered to the mission of the university, served the strategic needs of the country, and has always breathed with the Chinese nation and shared its destiny, witnessed and participated in the glorious history of the Chinese nation's indomitable and continuous progress, and formed the Jiao Tong University Spirit of "Virtuousness and self-improvement", "Rigorous administration, rigorous learning and self-improvement". The school tradition of "rigorous study and strict requirements" and the school motto of "diligent study, firm determination, perseverance, loyalty and forgiveness" have nurtured and produced more than 300,000 outstanding students such as Mao Yisheng, Zhu Kezhen, Lin Tongyan, Huang Wanli, etc. Among the teachers and students, three of the "two great masters" were born. Among the teachers and students, there are 3 "two bombs and one star" fathers, 64 academicians at home and abroad and 38 national engineering survey and design masters, and almost all academicians in the field of rail transportation since the reform and opening up are from our school. Comrade Deng Xiaoping gave the school a high evaluation: "This school has produced a lot of talent." With 27 colleges (schools and centers), the university has two national key disciplines of transportation engineering and mechanical engineering, 10 national key disciplines of vehicle engineering and bridge and tunnel engineering, 18 authorized points for doctoral degree of first-level disciplines, 3 authorized categories for doctoral degree, 41 authorized points for master's degree of first-level disciplines, and 11 post-doctoral research mobile stations. Transportation engineering is ranked the first in China. The discipline of transportation engineering ranks first in China (A+) and enters the national "double first-class" construction sequence, the discipline of civil engineering ranks seventh in China (A-), and six disciplines of engineering, materials science, computer science, chemistry, social science and earth science enter the top 1% of ESI world ranking. There are 13 national science and technology innovation platforms and 36 provincial and ministerial research bases, including National Laboratory of Railway Transportation and State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, which have established the most complete discipline system, talent system and research system in the field of railway transportation in the world. The university has vigorously carried out basic research and original innovation in the fields of high-speed railroad, heavy-duty railroad, magnetic levitation, new type of urban railways, vacuum tube ultra-high-speed, etc., and constructed a railroad system dynamics system with the world-recognized "Shen's Theory" and "Zhai-Sun Model" as its symbol. The university has built a basic research system of railway system dynamics marked by the world-recognized "Shen's theory" and "Zhai Sun model", and its scientific and technological achievements have been selected as the "Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progresses of Chinese Colleges and Universities" for four times, and the total number of national scientific and technological awards in the field of rail transportation ranks the first among national colleges and universities, scientific research institutes and industrial enterprises in the whole country, which makes an indelible contribution to the economic construction of the country and the development of society, especially the development of China's rail transportation. In addition, the university has made many important achievements in the fields of national defense science and technology, intelligent manufacturing, biomedicine, big data, as well as physical sciences, humanities and social sciences. The university vigorously implements the main strategy of strengthening the university with talents, with more than 2,700 full-time teachers, including 10 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (including 8 double-appointed academicians), 17 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (including 15 double-appointed academicians), and more than 100 selected candidates of the National High-level Talents Program; 1 innovation group of the National Natural Funding Committee, 6 innovation teams of the Ministry of Education, 8 national teaching teams, and 6 national teaching master teachers. There are 6 national teaching teams and 6 national teaching masters. In addition, nearly 50 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Engineering and Nobel Prize winners have been employed as part-time (honorary) professors. The university is committed to cultivating socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physicality, aesthetics and aesthetics. There are 28914 full-time undergraduates, 15,053 master's degree graduates, 2,630 doctoral degree graduates and 536 international students in the university. The university has 44 majors entering the national first-class undergraduate majors "Double Ten Thousand Plan" construction sites, 12 national featured majors, 4 pilot projects of comprehensive reform of majors, 17 majors of the Excellence in Engineer Education Training Program, 16 majors certified by the Engineering Education Certification; 4 pilot projects of the National Education System Reform; 29 teaching awards, including the Special Achievement Award and the National Achievement Award for Teaching. The university has won 29 national teaching achievement awards, including 1 grand prize and 6 first prizes. The university has 50 courses selected as the first batch of "national first-class undergraduate courses", 36 national boutique courses, 24 national boutique resources*** enjoyment courses, 8 national boutique video open courses, 23 national boutique online open courses, and 3 national bilingual demonstration courses. The employment rate of graduates has remained above 95% for 30 consecutive years, ranking among the top of national colleges and universities. The university adheres to internationalization, and has established cooperative relationships with 211 universities and research institutions in 59 countries and regions, and cooperated with the University of Leeds to set up the "Southwest Jiaotong University - Leeds College", "2+2", "4+1", "2+2" and "4+1". The "2+2", "Undergraduate 4+1", "Sino-French 4+4" and other study abroad, study tour and study visit programs cover all grades. There are 6 National Innovation and Intellectual Intelligence Bases for Foreign Experts ("111 Program"). There are 3 international academic journals. The university has a national university science and technology park, a national science and technology business incubator, a national technology transfer center and an industrial research institute, and has established a "science and technology-incubation-industry" whole-chain results transformation model, and is the first to explore the "ownership of scientific and technological achievements" in China. It has also taken the lead in exploring the reform of "mixed ownership system for the ownership of scientific and technological achievements" in China, which is known as the "Xiaogangcun Experiment" in the field of science and technology. With the support of the Chinese government, Southwest Jiaotong University has become the first university in China to explore the reform of "mixed ownership of scientific and technological achievements". Southwest Jiaotong University holds high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, bearing in mind the "two big situations" and "the greatness of the country", and taking the initiative to buttress the "One Belt, One Road" initiative and the "One Country, One World" initiative, as well as the "One Country, One World" initiative. "Initiative, "Transportation Power", "Education Power", "Construction of Chengdu-Chongqing Twin-city Economic Circle" and other national strategic programs, to deepen the reform, comprehensively We will deepen the reform in a comprehensive way, rule the university according to the law, push forward the accelerated construction of "double first-class", characteristic construction and high-quality construction, and welcome the victory of the 20th Party Congress with excellent achievements!

As of March 2021, the university has three campuses, namely, Ripu, Jiuli and Emei, covering an area of more than 5,000 acres; it has 27 colleges (schools and centers), as well as the Graduate School, the School of Clinical Medicine, and the Affiliated Hospitals; it has two first-level disciplines of national key disciplines, and ten second-level disciplines of national key disciplines; it has eleven post-doctoral research mobile stations, nineteen There are 11 postdoctoral research stations, 19 first-level disciplinary doctoral programs, 3 professional degree doctoral programs, and 40 first-level disciplinary master's programs; 2,448 full-time teachers, 29,025 full-time undergraduates, 10,489 master's degree students, 2,364 doctoral degree students, and 900 international students.