Southwest Jiaotong University's ace majors are transportation, civil engineering, electrical engineering and automation, traffic engineering, communication, mechanical design and manufacturing and automation, vehicle engineering, material science and engineering, communication engineering, rail transit signal and control, computer science and technology, surveying and mapping engineering, geological engineering, etc.

Southwest Jiaotong University is located in Chengdu, a famous historical and cultural city in China and a national central city. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, and the first batch of research universities in China with graduate schools focusing on the construction of "double first-class", "2 1 1 project" and "characteristic 985 project".

Founded in Shanhaiguan 1896, the school is the birthplace of higher education in civil engineering, mining and metallurgy engineering and traffic engineering in China, and it is also one of the two earliest sources of "Jiaotong University". The school has undergone two national teacher adjustments. 1972 changed its name to southwest jiaotong university, 1989 the main school moved to Chengdu.

Scientific research achievements of Southwest Jiaotong University;

The school has 15 national scientific and technological innovation platforms and 36 provincial and ministerial scientific research bases, such as the National Laboratory of Rail Transit and the State Key Laboratory of Rail Transit Carrier System, and has established the most complete discipline system, talent system and scientific research system in the field of rail transit in the world.

The school has vigorously carried out basic research and original innovation in the fields of high-speed railway, maglev transportation, new urban rail, heavy-haul railway and ultra-high-speed vacuum pipeline, and built a basic research system of railway large-scale system dynamics marked by the world-recognized "Shen's theory" and "Zhai Sun model", and its scientific and technological achievements have been selected as one of the "Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progress of National Universities" for four times.

The total number of national science and technology awards won by the school in the field of rail transit ranks first among universities, research institutes and industrial enterprises in China, which has made indelible contributions to the national economic construction and social development, especially the development of rail transit in China.

In addition, the school has made many important achievements in the fields of national defense science and technology, biomedicine, intelligent manufacturing, big data, physical science, humanities and social sciences.