Located in Beijing, the capital of China, Beijing Jiaotong University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, which is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, China Railway Corporation and Beijing Municipality. It is also a "2 1 1 Project" national key university. The school has two ace disciplines: transportation engineering and information and communication engineering.

Other strong disciplines include mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronic science and technology, computer science and technology, software engineering, civil engineering, optical engineering, control science and engineering, system science, applied economics, statistics, management science and engineering, business administration, safety science and engineering, mechanics, mathematics, physics and so on.