Southwest Jiaotong University was founded in 1896, located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It was jointly built by the Ministry of Education, China Railway Corporation, Sichuan Province and Chengdu, and became one of the first batch of innovative platforms for dominant disciplines in "World-class discipline construction university", "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project".
This school has been selected into "20 1 1 Plan", "KLOC-0/1Plan", "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan", "National Undergraduate Innovation Experiment Plan", "National Construction of High-level University Public Postgraduate Program", "New Engineering Research and Practice Project" and China Government Scholarship for Foreign Students in China.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Southwest Jiaotong University