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About Southwest Jiaotong University
Founded in 1896 as the “Imperial Chinese Railway College”, Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) is the first institution of higher engineering education in China. It has become known as “the cradle of railway engineers in China”.
SWJTU was founded to train China’s own railway engineers. Since our early days, we have been cultivating talents for the rejuvenation of Chinese nation and persevering in self-improvement with the motto “Diligence, Ambition, Tenacity and Loyalty”. By training our graduates to master cutting-edge technologies and to strive for excellence, we have been shaping the development of China’s rail transit industry from the beginning. We have more than 300,000 graduates whose ideas, innovations and actions have generated a positive impact in China and the world.
As an outstanding academic community, it has always been our mission to serve the country and the world through scientific education, research, and innovation, to solve fundamental scientific problems and to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
SWJTU is situated in
Chengdu,
Sichuan’s capital, and is known as the home of the beloved Panda Bear. Our hometown, a “garden city” is regarded as one of the metropolitan cities with the highest quality of life in China. Furthermore, since it is a key node city along the “Belt and Road”, SWJTU is well positioned to adopt a global vision, with partners, cooperation projects, and alumni spanning the globe. Our growing scientific community attracts talents from all over the world and our students have opportunities to study, research, and work with outstanding and multidisciplinary teachers, alumni, and partners. Both rigorous and dynamic, the academic environment provides outstanding opportunities for the integration of theory and practice. As a member of the innovative, cooperative, and multidisciplinary community at SWJTU, you will have the chance to work in a community that serves as a key node of the Belt and Road Initiative, address the greatest global engineering challenges of today, and make a positive impact on the field of higher education with us. In addition, you can experience and enjoy our welcoming culture, highly praised by our international guests and visitors.
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Welcome to Southwest Jiaotong University!
Being one of the oldest higher education institutions in China as well as the pioneer of modern Chinese higher education in engineering, SWJTU is a prestigious institution, with its glorious and proud history spanning over a century.
SWJTU has the distinction of blazing a trail in training the earliest Chinese railway engineers. Since its inception in 1896, inspired by our ethos of patriotism and aspiration for excellence, generations of our alumni, faculty, staff and students have remained its longstanding commitment to the nation’s rejuvenation endeavors, and made invaluable contribution to the advancement of Chinese railway, highway, aviation, mining, metallurgy, bridge, municipal engineering, water conservancy, machinery, architecture, etc. and rendered services to the prosperity of China.
Building on our tradition of “Rigorous Scholarship” and “Stringent Requirements”, we are dedicated to educating our students of distinction to benefit society. SWJTU has been widely recognized for its distinguished alumni, outstanding faculty, and vibrant student body.
Remaining at the forefront of engineering education and research, SWJTU is home to China’s earliest disciplines such as civil engineering, transportation engineering, etc. We are proud that our professors have made internationally impactful breakthroughs in railway development, such as “Zhai-Sun Model” and “Shen-Hedrick-Elkin’s Theory”. We are proud that our researchers share their expertise in national projects that transform lives for the better, for example, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world’s longest plateau railway with the highest altitude, the
Sichuan-Tibet Railway, the world’s most challenging railway, and the Hong Kong-
Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge.
With picturesque campuses, Xipu and Jiuli campuses being situated in the dynamic city of
Chengdu, and Emei campus nestling at the foot of Mount Emei, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, we are committed to creating a high-quality environment allowing our faculty, staff and student to flourish.
Today, as a research-intensive university, SWJTU is building it into a world-class university with characteristics in transportation, and enhancing its mission of serving the needs of national rejuvenation, advancing society and benefiting China and the wider world.
