Southwest Jiaotong University is introduced as follows:

Southwest Jiaotong University, referred to as "Southwest Jiaotong University", is located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), which is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, China Railway Corporation, Sichuan Provincial People's Government and Chengdu Municipal People's Government.

It was rated as "double-class", "21/engineering" and 985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform, and was selected as "20 1 1 plan", "1/plan", excellent engineer education and training plan and the whole country.

China is a member of the China-Europe elite university alliance, including the national graduate program for building high-level universities, the research and practice program for new engineering, the institutions where overseas students in China have won scholarships from the China government, the first batch of universities' scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer bases, and the training units for Tibet aid projects.

The school started from the North Railway Institute, which entered the customs at 1896. Since then, it has been relocated and renamed several times, and Tangshan Jiaotong University is well-known at home and abroad, and is known as "Cornell of the East". 1952 national colleges and universities were reorganized and renamed Tangshan railway institute.

1960 was approved by the central government to become a national key university. 1964 The school moved to Emei, and 1972 was named Southwest Jiaotong University. 1989 The main body of the school moved to Chengdu. In 2000, the school was placed under the management of the Ministry of Education.

As of May 2023, the school has four campuses, namely Jiuli, Xipu, Emei and Chengdu East (International) Campus, covering an area of more than 5,000 mu. There are 27 colleges (colleges and centers) and 94 undergraduate majors.

There are 1 1 postdoctoral research stations, 18 doctoral degree authorization points in first-level disciplines, 3 doctoral degree authorization categories and 4 1 master degree authorization points in first-level disciplines; There are more than 2,700 full-time teachers, including 289 full-time undergraduates, 289 master students, 2,630 doctoral students and 536 international students.