Southwest Jiaotong University, referred to as "Southwest Jiaotong University", located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, 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 first-class", "2 1 1 engineering" and 985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform.
Selected in "20 1 1 plan", "11plan", education and training plan for outstanding engineers, national innovative experiment plan for college students, national postgraduate plan for building high-level universities, new engineering research and practice projects, China government scholarship for overseas students, and transformation and technology of scientific and technological achievements in the first batch of universities.
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.