As one of the three origins of the Jiaotong University, the history of Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) can be dated back to 1896. BJTU grew out of Beijing Railway Management Institute, China’s first higher educational institution which was committed to fostering railway management talents and initiated modern China’s education in railway management and telecommunication.

Based on our advantaged disciplines, such as information, management and transportation science and technology, BJTU provides intelligence and personnel support and professional service to fully involve in many milestone events in the development of rail transit in China, such as the Grand Railway Acceleration, the construction of Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the heavy-haul transportation of Daqin Railway, the construction of high-speed railway and the independent research and development of core technology of urban rail transit. 

After the development in the past 120 years, the university has built a comprehensive discipline system with information and management as advantage, transportation science and technology as features, and engineering, management, economics, science, social science, law and philosophy developing synergistically.There are 15 centre for post-doctoral studies, 21 1st-level discipline doctoral programmes, 33 1st-level discipline master programmes and degree programmes of 14 disciplines including MBA, Master of Engineering, Master of Accounting, Master of Law, etc.