Southwest Jiaotong University/西南交通大学

Southwest Jiaotong University is a key national university directly under the Ministry of Education, recognized as one of the first batch of "Double First Class" universities, a participant in the "211 Project," the "985 Project Innovation Platform for Advantageous Disciplines," and the "2011 Collaborative Innovation Plan." It has a graduate school and is located in Chengdu, a historical and cultural city in China, a national central city, and the core city of the "Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle."

The university was founded in 1896 in Shanhaiguan, originally named the "Beiyang Railway Official School" (Imperial Chinese Railway College). It is the first higher education institution in engineering in China and the birthplace of higher education in civil engineering, mining engineering, and transportation engineering in China. It is also one of the earliest sources of the establishment of "Jiaotong University" in China in 1921. Since its establishment, the school has undergone several relocations and name changes, having been known successively as Tangshan Road and Mining School, Tangshan Industrial School, Tangshan Jiaotong School, Tangshan University of the Ministry of Transport, Tangshan Jiaotong University, National Tangshan Institute of Technology, and North China Jiaotong University Tangshan Institute of Technology. The university is renowned both domestically and internationally by the names "Tangshan Jiaoda" and "Tangyuan," and Chairman Mao Zedong inscribed the name of North China Jiaotong University.

In 1952, due to national adjustments in higher education institutions, the school was renamed Tangshan Railway Institute, with many of its distinguished departments transferred to Tsinghua University, Tianjin University, and Beijing University of Science and Technology, among other sister institutions. In 1964, actively responding to the central government's call to develop the "Great Third Front," the Ministry of Railways decided to move the school to Emei, Sichuan. In 1972, it was renamed Southwest Jiaotong University, and in 1989, the main academic body of the university relocated to the Jiuli campus in Chengdu. In 2002, a new campus was expanded in Xipu, Chengdu, and in 2020, the university collaborated with Chengdu city to establish the Chengdu East (International) Campus. Currently, it has four campuses: Chengdu Jiuli, Xipu, East (International), and Emei, covering an area of over 5,000 acres.