Beijing Jiaotong University

Beijing Jiaotong University is a key national university directly under the Ministry of Education and jointly built by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Transport, the people 's government of Beijing Municipality and China State Railway Group Co., LTD. It is a university included in the "211 Project", "985 Project Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" and "Double First-Class" initiative.

As one of the three origins of Jiaotong University, Beijing Jiaotong University has a history that can be traced back to 1896. Its predecessor was the Railway Management Training Institute established by the Qing government, which was the first higher education institution in China dedicated to training management talents and the birthplace of modern railway management and telecommunications education in China. In 1917, it was reorganized into the Railway Management School and the Post and Telecommunications School, and in 1921, it merged with the Shanghai Industrial School and the Tangshan Industrial School to form Jiaotong University. After the reorganization of Jiaotong University in 1923, it was renamed Beijing Jiaotong University. In 1950, the school was renamed Northern Jiaotong University. In 1952, the school was renamed Beijing Railway Institute. In 1970, the name "Northern Jiaotong University" was restored. In 2000, it merged with Beijing Electric Power College and was transferred from the Ministry of Railways to the Ministry of Education. In 2003, the name "Beijing Jiaotong University" was resumed.

The university has two campuses, east and west, in Haidian District, Beijing, which is known as a place of learning. The total area is nearly 1,000 mu and the building area is over 1 million square meters. In Weihai, Shandong Province, there is a campus featuring Sino-foreign cooperative education, covering an area of over 1,000 mu; Each campus is well-equipped with teaching and research facilities and has a beautiful campus environment. Beijing Jiaotong University Seaside Rail Transit Comprehensive Research and Development Experimental Base has been established in Huanghua City, Hebei Province; Build an international first-class rail transit "industry-university-research-use" integrated innovation base in Fengtai District, Beijing; Establish Tangshan Research Institute in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, to create a demonstration zone for technology research and development and technology transfer; The Shenzhen Research Institute, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute and the Weihai Research Institute have been established, making positive contributions to expanding social resources and promoting talent cultivation and scientific research at the university. At present, the Xiongan campus has begun large-scale construction, and the school's multi-campus coordinated development has entered a new stage.

After 130 years of development, the school has formed a complete discipline training system with information, management and other disciplines as its strengths, transportation science and technology as its characteristics, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines including engineering, management, economics, science, literature, law and philosophy. The School of Automation and Intelligence, School of Electronic Information Engineering, School of Computer Science and Technology, School of Economics and Management, School of Transportation, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, School of Mechanical and Electronic Control Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, School of Mathematics and Statistics, School of Physical Science and Engineering, School of Language and Communication, School of Software, School of Marxism, School of Architecture and Art There are 21 colleges, including the College, the Law School, the School of Environment, the School of Systems Science, the School of Cyberspace Security (National Confidentiality College), the Zhan Tianyou College (Smart Transportation Future Technology College), the National College of Outstanding Engineers, and Weihai International College.

The school regards building a high-quality teaching staff as the key to enhancing its educational strength and vigorously implements the strategy of strengthening the school with talent. The school has 3,296 full-time staff members, including 2,113 full-time teachers (1,519 with associate senior professional titles or above and 2,035 with master's degrees or above). The school has two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, one foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, eight national teaching masters, six members of the Academic Degrees Committee of The State Council, 84 teachers selected for various national talent programs, and two talents selected for the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee's "Four Groups of Talents" program.

The school has always adhered to the fundamental task of fostering virtue and nurturing talent, and has achieved remarkable results in educational and teaching reform and construction, cultivating a large number of talents for the development of the country and the industry. The school has 3,489 doctoral students, 10,712 master's students, 17,105 undergraduate students, 1,867 international students and 5,179 adult students throughout the year. In the last three sessions of the undergraduate teaching Achievement Awards, two first prizes and seven second prizes were awarded at the national level. 1 National first prize and 1 national second prize in the postgraduate teaching achievement Awards; 1 first prize and 2 second prizes were awarded in the Graduate Education Achievement Awards of the China Association of Degree and Graduate Education. The university was among the first to be selected as a pilot institution under the Ministry of Education's "101" program. The Computer Science Base was approved as a national base for cultivating top-notch students in basic disciplines, and the School of Software was approved as a national characteristic demonstration school of software. The university has 47 national first-class undergraduate programs, 11 national characteristic programs, 7 national comprehensive reform pilot programs, 8 national outstanding engineers education and training program programs, 13 programs have passed the national engineering education professional accreditation, 3 programs have passed the national civil engineering professional assessment, and 3 programs have been selected for the International training program of innovative talents by the China Scholarship Council. The university has 6 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, 3 national virtual simulation experimental teaching projects, 3 national off-campus practice bases for college students, and 7 national engineering practice education centers. It has established a national-level teacher teaching development demonstration center. Three postgraduate joint training bases have been awarded the title of "National Demonstration Base for Joint Training of Engineering Professional Degree Postgraduates". The university has 67 national first-class undergraduate courses, 25 national excellent Resource-sharing courses and 6 national excellent video open courses. Four of them were awarded the title of chief editor of the first batch of national quality textbooks and one team was selected for the construction of the "14th Five-Year Plan" higher education textbook system in strategic emerging fields by the Ministry of Education. A total of 248 projects were approved for industry-university cooperation and collaborative education by the Ministry of Education, among which 3 were recognized as outstanding cases. The university implements the "Plateau" and "Peak" top-notch talent cultivation program, relying on the Zhan Tianyou College to carry out the integrated undergraduate and postgraduate talent cultivation model, cultivating top-notch scientific research talents in basic disciplines and leading scientific and technological innovation talents in advantageous disciplines; Implement the "Knowledge and Action" program for industry-university collaboration, focusing on the urgent needs of national development to cultivate outstanding engineering talents. The school has been constantly improving its teaching quality assurance system and successfully passed the first category assessment of the new round of undergraduate education teaching review and evaluation in 2024. The employment rate of students remained at around 95%, and the rate of undergraduate students pursuing further studies exceeded 70%. The school was among the first to be recognized as a national base for innovation and entrepreneurship education practice, a national model university for innovation and entrepreneurship, and a national model university for graduate employment. The college student version of "The Long March Suite" and the original play "MAO Yisheng" performed by the student art troupe have become effective carriers for ideological and political education in the school. The school's sports activities have flourished, with high-level sports teams and ordinary student representative teams achieving remarkable results, winning 7 national championships, 7 second places, 3 third places, 38 Beijing championships, 35 second places, and 41 third places in 2024.

The school has always focused on the frontiers of science and technology and the major strategic demands of the country, and has fully participated in major historical events of China's rail transit development, such as the great speed-up of railways, the construction of the Qinghai-Xizang Railway, heavy haul transportation on the Daqin Railway, maglev trains, high-speed railways, the construction of the Sichuan-Xizang Railway, and the independent research and development of core technologies for urban rail transit. It has achieved a series of original major achievements with complete independent intellectual property rights and at the international advanced level, and has made positive contributions to serving the transportation, logistics, information, new energy and other industries as well as the economic and social development of Beijing, and has become an important force supporting and leading the scientific and technological innovation development of the country, industry and region. The university has 78 research platforms at or above the provincial and ministerial level. Among them are the National Key Laboratory for Autonomous Operation of Advanced Rail Transit, the National Engineering Research Center for Rail Transit Operation Control System, the National Engineering Research Center for Mobile Dedicated Network, the Frontier Science Center for Smart High-Speed Rail System, the Collaborative Innovation Center for Rail Transit Safety, the National High-End Think Tank for Sustainable Transportation Innovation, the National Research Center for Rail Transit Safety Assessment, and the National International Science and Technology Cooperation Nine national-level platforms, including the operation base, 69 provincial and ministerial-level platforms, including the Beijing University Philosophy and Social Sciences Innovation Center and the Ministry of Education Research Center for Country and Regional Studies. The university is a pilot unit for the construction of a strong transportation nation by the Ministry of Transport and a vice-chairman unit of the Ministry of Transport's New Think Tank Alliance for Transportation. Regularly host China Transport High-level Forum, Beijing Transport Development Forum, National Economic Security and Development Forum, Jiaotong Lecture Hall, LISS and IEIS International Academic Conferences. The university has achieved full coverage of gigabit networks to desktops, wired and wireless networks, and the in-depth application of new-generation information technologies such as high-performance computing, big data, artificial intelligence and 5G has strongly supported and promoted the development and reform and innovation of the university. The current assets of teaching and research instruments and equipment amount to 1.84 billion; The library has a total of 17.714 million volumes of paper books, e-books, online resources, etc. It has a transportation-specific database, an Ministry of Education science and Technology novelty search workstation and a national intellectual property information service center for colleges and universities.

The school regards strengthening cooperation and exchange as an important way to improve its educational standards. Actively responding to the national Belt and Road Initiative, it has established cooperative relations with 273 universities and institutions in 52 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France; Actively spread Chinese culture by establishing a Confucius Institute in Campinas, Brazil; Initiated the establishment of the Global University Alliance for Sustainable Transport, joined the International Railway Union, the International Railway Cooperation Organization and the China-CEEC University Association, became the leading unit of the China-Russia Transport University Presidents' Alliance, the China-Asean Rail Transit Education and Training Alliance and the UIC High-Speed Rail University Alliance, and continuously enhanced its influence and voice in the international railway field; Strengthen international research cooperation and lead the establishment of the China-Us, China-Russia, China-UK and China-Indonesia High-Speed Rail Research Centers. Give full play to the role of the alumni association, the foundation and the board of directors, and establish strategic cooperative relations with nearly 400 enterprises in the transportation, information, energy and technology innovation industries, with 85 director units; 65 alumni organizations at home and abroad; Beijing Jiaotong University Education Foundation has been rated as a 4A-level social organization.

"Remember the source of the water, love the country and honor the school." Beijing Jiaotong University, adhering to its motto "Knowledge and Action" and shouldering a new mission, is moving forward with a more pioneering spirit towards the goal of becoming a world-class university with distinctive features.