Southwest Jiaotong University is a key university directly under the Ministry of Education, and it is a "2 1 1" engineering college focusing on engineering.

Southwest Jiaotong University is still strong in civil engineering, traffic engineering, transportation engineering, electrical engineering and other majors. Civil engineering is the pillar of Jiaotong University, with tunnel engineering and bridge engineering leading the country. The transportation engineering major ranked first in the country for three consecutive years; Electrical engineering majors mainly study high voltage electricity, especially electrified railways. ...

Southwest Jiaotong University is a famous Tangshan Jiaotong University in history and the birthplace of modern civil engineering, mining and metallurgy and traffic engineering education in China. Mao Yisheng, Zhu Kezhen, Lin Tongyan and other famous scientists all graduated from this school, among which Mao Yisheng was the president of Jiaotong University for four times. At the same time, it has trained more than 30 academicians such as Zhang Qian, Wang, and Yao, two winners of "Two Bombs and One Satellite" medals.

Tangshan Jiaotong University 197 1 transferred to Emei, changed to Southwest Jiaotong University, 1989 transferred to Chengdu. On the whole, Southwest Jiaotong University has lost its former glory, ranking between 30 and 50 in the country. However, it still has some strength, especially in some strong disciplines, such as the world's first HTS maglev train, the dynamic research of track coupling system, and the experimental platform of railway vehicles, which are all selected as "the top ten scientific and technological progress of national universities" and can be comparable to famous universities.