Southwest Jiaotong University, located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It ranks among the first batch of world-class discipline construction universities, 21/project and 985 engineering innovation platform, and has been selected into the national innovation ability improvement plan of colleges and universities, the discipline innovation and intelligence introduction plan of colleges and universities, the excellent engineer education and training plan and the public postgraduate plan of building high-level universities.
The school started from 1896 Shanhaiguan Beiyang Railway Official School. Since then, it has been moved and renamed many times. Tangshan Jiaotong University enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad, and is known as the "Cornell of the East", especially in civil engineering, mining and metallurgy.
From 65438 to 0952, the department was renamed Tangshan Railway Institute after adjustment, specializing in the training of rail transit talents. 1964 The school moved to Emei, and 1972 was named Southwest Jiaotong University. In 2000, it was placed under the management of the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). ?
As of June 20 19 and 1 year, the school has three campuses, namely Xipu, Jiuli and Emei, covering an area of more than 5,000 mu. There are graduate schools and two off-site graduate schools (Qingdao Graduate School and Tangshan Graduate School); There are 26 colleges, Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools 1 institute and affiliated hospitals 1 institute.
In the 20 17 academic year, the school registered 83 undergraduate majors in the Ministry of Education. There are 19 first-class doctoral programs, 1 professional doctoral programs and 39 first-class master programs; Postdoctoral research mobile stations 1 1; Full-time teachers 26 10, full-time undergraduates 278 14, graduate students 1 1965438, doctoral students 2382, international students 852.