Southwest Jiaotong University

The predecessor of Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) is the Imperial Chinese Railway College founded in 1896 in Hebei province, which was China's first institution of higher learning for engineering education, and seen as the birthplace of the country's higher education in civil, mining and metallurgy, and transportation engineering.

In 1964, the university was moved to Sichuan province and renamed to its current name in 1972. It currently has three campuses, covering a total area of more than 5,000 mu (333.33 hectares).

By June 2019, the university had 26 departments, one Chinese-foreign cooperatively run school, one affiliated hospital – Chengdu No 3 People's Hospital, and two graduate schools in Qingdao of Shandong province and Tangshan of Hebei province.

It offers 83 majors for bachelors, covering philosophy, economics, law, pedagogy, literature, history, engineering, agriculture, management and art. Two first-level disciplines – mechanical engineering and traffic engineering – were listed as the national key disciplines. Majors of material science, engineering science, and computer science entered the top 1 percent in the global rankings set by the Essential Science Indicators, also known as ESI, an authoritative analysis and evaluation tool for measuring scientific research performance.

The university also hosts 11 postdoctoral research stations, 19 doctoral degree programs for first-rank disciplines, and 39 master's degree programs for first-rank disciplines.

There are currently 29,101 full-time undergraduate, 15,744 postgraduates and 900 overseas students at the university, as well as 2,610 teaching staff members, of whom seven are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 16 are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Five Nobel laureates were also invited to be the university's honorary professors.

In recent years, Southwest Jiaotong University has been expanding its cooperation and exchanges with overseas educational institutions. It has established long-term partnerships with 203 universities and colleges in 59 countries and regions around the world, including Politecnico di Milano in Italy, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States.

By cooperating with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, the university established the SWJTU-Leeds Joint School, under the approval of the Chinese Ministry of Education.

Addresses:

Xipu campus: No 999 Xi'an Road, Pidu district, Chengdu, Sichuan province

Jiuli campus: No 111 North Section One of Erhuan Road, Jinniu district, Chengdu, Sichuan province

Emei campus: No 6 Section Two of Jingqu Road, Emeishan, Sichuan province

Contacts:

Xipu campus: +86-28-66360111, +86-28-66366213

Jiuli campus: +86-28-87600114

Emei campus: +86-833-5198114