Lanzhou Railway Institute is now called Lanzhou Jiaotong University, which is located in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province. It is a university jointly established by China Railway Corporation, the State Railway Administration and the provincial departments of Gansu Provincial People's Government. Tianjin University, Beijing Jiaotong University and Southwest Jiaotong University were selected by the Ministry of Education's "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" to support universities. The Ministry of Education's "Model School for Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform" and the Ministry of Education's "Central and Western Education Revitalization Plan" support universities, high-level universities in Gansu Province and "first-class disciplines" to build universities.

The school has two campuses, covering an area of 1.564 mu, with a building area of 727,700 square meters and a library of 2,334,500 books. There are 5 post-doctoral research stations, 6 doctoral programs in first-class disciplines, 28 master programs in first-class disciplines, and 15 professional degree authorization categories; 22 directly affiliated colleges (departments), National University Science Park 1; Set up 70 undergraduate majors; There are 2286 faculty members, including full-time teachers 1794; There are 3 1 129 full-time students, including 22 undergraduate students, 7,380 graduate students (6,998 graduate students and 382 doctoral students), 278 international students and 223 vocational students. The school has 2286 teaching and administrative staff, including full-time teachers 1794, 340 senior staff and 673 deputy senior staff. Double-hired 2 academicians and 2 national Jieqing.