Southwest Jiaotong University has many advantages or ace majors, including but not limited to the following aspects: national specialty and double-class construction discipline, traffic engineering specialty (double-class construction discipline and national key first-class discipline), vehicle engineering, electrical engineering and its automation, mechanical design and manufacturing and its automation, civil engineering, engineering mechanics, communication engineering, rock engineering, power electronics and transmission.
According to the evaluation and data from different sources, the ace majors emphasized at different time points are architecture, traffic engineering, computer science and technology, surveying and mapping engineering, geological engineering, ideological and political education, English, communication, material science and engineering, automation, electronic information engineering, microelectronics science and engineering, and electronic science and technology.
Professions that stand out in some evaluations or rankings: transportation (ranked first in the country), traffic engineering (ranked first in the country), rail transit signal and control, vehicle engineering, mechanical design and manufacturing and automation, civil engineering, surveying and mapping engineering, logistics engineering, building environment and energy application engineering, and advertising.
To sum up, Southwest Jiaotong University's ace specialty covers a wide range, especially in transportation engineering and related fields, with high visibility and strength. At the same time, there are outstanding majors such as engineering, science, humanities and social sciences.