Southwest Jiaotong University is located at No.999 Xi 'an Road, Pidu District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province. 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). It is jointly built by the Ministry of Education, China Railway Corporation, Sichuan Province and Chengdu. Ranked among the first world-class discipline construction universities in China, it is a research university focusing on the innovation platform of 21KLOC-0/Engineering and 985 Engineering Advantage Discipline.
Southwest Jiaotong University was founded in 1896, then named as Shanhaiguan Beiyang Railway Institute. Later, the school site was moved again, and it was named as Jiaotong University, Tangshan Jiaotong University, China Jiaotong University and Northern Jiaotong University. 1952 was renamed Tangshan Railway Institute, 1964 moved to Emei, and 1972 was renamed Southwest Jiaotong University.
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. 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 March, 20021year, the school has three campuses, Xipu, Jiuli and Emei, covering an area of more than 5,000 mu. There are 27 colleges (hospitals and centers), as well as graduate schools, clinical medical colleges and affiliated hospitals;
At present, there are 2 first-class disciplines, two disciplines national key disciplines 10, postdoctoral research stations1/0/,first-class doctoral programs 19, 3 professional doctoral programs and 40 first-class master programs. There are 2448 full-time teachers, 29025 full-time undergraduates, 2364 doctoral students and 900 international students.
The school has two first-class national key disciplines, traffic engineering and mechanical engineering, two disciplines, such as vehicle engineering and bridge and tunnel engineering 10 national key disciplines, first-class disciplines 18 doctoral degree authorization points, three doctoral degree authorization categories, first-class disciplines1master degree authorization points,/kloc-0.