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Southwest Jiaotong University, referred to as "Southwest Jiaotong University", located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, is a national key university directly under * * *; It was rated as "double-class", "21/engineering" and 985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform, and was selected as "20 1 1 plan", "1/plan", excellent engineer education and training plan and the whole country.
The new project of engineering research and practice, the scholarship of China government for overseas students in China, the first batch of scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer bases in colleges and universities, and the training unit of Tibet aid program are members of the China-Europe elite university alliance. The school started from 1896 Shanhaiguan Beiyang Railway Official School. Since then, it has been relocated and renamed several times, and it is famous at home and abroad as Tangshan Jiaotong University.
Known as "Cornell of the East". 1952 national colleges and universities were reorganized and renamed Tangshan railway institute. 1960, approved as a national key university. 1964 The school moved to Emei, and 1972 was named Southwest Jiaotong University. 1989 The main body of the school moved to Chengdu. In 2000, the school was placed under the management of the Ministry of Education.
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 (institutes and centers) and 94 undergraduate majors; There are postdoctoral research mobile stations 1 1, and first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points 18.
As of May 2023, the school has 2 first-class national key disciplines, 10 national key disciplines in two disciplines, 18 first-class doctoral degree authorization points, 3 doctoral degree authorization categories, 4 1 first-class master degree authorization points, and1postdoctoral research mobile station.
The discipline of transportation engineering ranks first (A+) in China, entering the national "double first-class" construction sequence, and the discipline of civil engineering ranks seventh (A-) in China. Seven disciplines including engineering, computer science, materials science, chemistry, social science, earth science and environment/ecology have entered the top 65,438+0% of ESI world rankings.