The ace majors of East China Jiaotong University are vehicle engineering, electrical engineering and automation, communication engineering, automation, civil engineering, water supply and drainage science and engineering, building electricity and intelligence, railway engineering, transportation, accounting, human resource management, logistics management, sports training, information and computing science.

East China Jiaotong University, located in Nanchang City, the capital of Jiangxi Province, is a teaching and research university focusing on engineering, with the coordinated development of economics, management, literature, science, law, teaching and art, featuring transportation and taking track as the core. It is a key university in Jiangxi Province, which is jointly established by China Railway Corporation, State Railway Administration and Jiangxi Provincial People's Government.

Selected into the basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions, the education and training plan of outstanding engineers of the Ministry of Education, and the construction of first-class disciplines in Jiangxi. It has been successively rated as a national typical experience university for graduate employment, a national demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, a national contracted university for recruiting, selecting and training reserve officers, a national intellectual property training base, a member unit of China-Russia Jiaotong University Alliance and China-ASEAN Rail Transit Education and Training Alliance.