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. Ranked as "double first-class".

"2 1 1 engineering" and 985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform were selected into "20 1 1 plan", "1/plan", excellent engineer education and training plan, national innovative experiment plan for college students and national construction of high-level universities.

The first batch of universities' scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer bases and Tibet aid program training units are members of the China-Europe elite university alliance. 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 institutions of higher learning were restructured 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.

discipline construction

As of June, 2022, 1 1, the school has two first-class national key disciplines, 10 national key disciplines in two disciplines, 18 first-class doctoral degree authorization points, 3 doctoral degree authorization categories, and 4 1 first-class master degree authorization points./kloc-.

The discipline of transportation engineering ranks first (A+) in China, entering the national "double first-class" construction sequence, and the discipline of civil engineering ranks seventh (A-) in China. Seven disciplines including engineering, computer science, materials science, chemistry, social science, earth science and environment/ecology have entered the top 65,438+0% of ESI world rankings.