Universities in Dalian include Dalian University of Technology, Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian Maritime University, dalian polytechnic university, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian Medical University, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian Foreign Studies University and Dongbei University of Finance and Economics.

Dalian Jiaotong University, located in Dalian, Liaoning Province, is a university jointly established by the former Liaoning Provincial People's Government of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Railways of China. It is a key construction university of first-class universities in Liaoning Province. It has the qualification to recommend outstanding undergraduate graduates to study for graduate students without examination. It is an innovative experimental area of national talent training mode in universities, national international training base for software talents (Dalian) and "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" implemented by the Ministry of Education.

The state has built high-level sports team colleges and sports culture research bases, the innovative talent training experimental base of "China-US Talent Training Plan" 12 1 project, the scholarship receiving institution of China government for overseas students, the first batch of pilot schools of Emergency Management College, the cooperative innovation base in Industry-University-Research, Liaoning, the undergraduate talent training base in shortage of vehicle engineering and the service outsourcing talent training base in Liaoning.

Dalian Northeast Asia International Shipping Talent Training Base is a university initiated by China Rail Transit Equipment Manufacturing Innovation Alliance, a member university of Sino-Russian Jiaotong University Alliance, and a leading university of Liaoning rail transit industry school-enterprise alliance. It is also the only university in Northeast China that features rail transit.

School development:

Dalian Jiaotong University was founded in June 1956, when it was Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Manufacturing School; 1958 was upgraded to Dalian Railway Institute and managed by the former Ministry of Railways; In February 2000, it was placed under the management of Liaoning provincial government, and the management system of "central and local governments jointly build, with local management as the mainstay" was implemented; In May 2004, it was renamed Dalian Jiaotong University with the approval of the Ministry of Education.