The campus has built a modern equipment manufacturing discipline chain with ground transportation as the core and automobiles as the leader. The foundation stone of Jiading Campus was laid in September, 20001year. In September, 2004, the first batch of 1000 teachers and students from two colleges of automobile and software settled in.
Tongji University Jiading Campus has begun to show its beauty. Five colleges, including automobile, software, traffic engineering, mechanical and energy engineering and electronic and information engineering, entered the campus in 2004 and 2005 respectively. In August 2006, four colleges and units, including Economic Management, Materials Science and Engineering, Communication and Art, Sino-German Engineering College, Railway and Urban Rail Transit Research Institute and Music Department, have also been relocated.