East China Jiaotong University is a teaching and research university with transportation as its feature, track as its core and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. 197 1 year, the state decided to merge the locomotive and rolling stock department of Shanghai Jiaotong University and the railway engineering major of Tongji University into Shanghai Railway Institute, renamed East China Jiaotong University, and moved to Jiangxi. From 65438 to 0978, East China Jiaotong University and Shanghai Railway Institute continued to run schools. The school was originally affiliated to the Ministry of Railways, and in 2000 it was transformed into "central and local * * * construction, with local management as the mainstay". It is a national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Colleges and Universities in the Midwest". Jiangxi Province focuses on strengthening the construction of colleges and universities and is an authorized unit for doctoral degrees.

By the end of 20 16 and 10, the school covers an area of nearly 3,000 mu, with a building area of over 700,000 square meters, and the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is nearly 350 million yuan. With 2.03 million paper books and 2.33 million electronic documents, the library is a first-class academic periodical literature retrieval consulting station in China. The school has 1 postdoctoral research center, 1 postdoctoral research mobile station, 1 academician workstation, 2 first-class doctoral programs and 17 first-class master programs; There are more than 23,000 students in school, including more than 2,800 graduate students. Faculty 1700, including more than 530 associate professors; The school has 17 secondary colleges and 60 undergraduate majors.