Southwest Jiaotong University, referred to as "Southwest Jiaotong University", is located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It 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.

The school ranks among the "double-class", "21/engineering" and 985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platforms, and has been selected into "20 1 1 plan", "1/plan" and excellent engineer education and training plan successively.

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.

School construction

As of May 2023, the school has four campuses, namely Jiuli, Xipu, Emei and Chengdu East (International) Campus, covering an area of more than 5,000 mu. There are 27 colleges (colleges and centers) and 94 undergraduate majors.

The school has 1 1 postdoctoral research mobile stations, 18 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 3 doctoral professional degree authorization categories, and 4 1 first-level discipline master degree authorization points; There are more than 2,700 full-time teachers, including 289 full-time undergraduates, 289 master students, 2,630 doctoral students and 536 international students.