Founded in 197 1, the school is one of the famous jiaotong universities in China. It is the national "2 1 1 project", "excellent engineer education and training plan", "basic capacity building project of central and western universities" and "1 1 plan. There are many excellent projects such as "first-class engineering school" to build universities, "double-first-class" national universities, "excellent engineer education and training plan" and "national language high-level university graduate education innovation demonstration school".
The school has 16 colleges, offering 86 undergraduate majors, covering engineering, science, management, literature, law, economics, education, art and other disciplines, among which transportation is the leading factor, and "traffic engineering, electrical information, machinery manufacturing, material science, computer science" represented by transportation, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electronic information and other disciplines has formed. The school has a strong faculty, with more than 2,200 faculty members, including more than 3 10 high-level talents. The school has 22 scientific research institutions and laboratories at or above the provincial and ministerial level. At the same time, the school attaches importance to practical teaching, has first-class practical teaching facilities and practical innovation mechanism, and provides support for students' career development and innovation and entrepreneurship.