Overview
Beijing Jiaotong University, founded in 1896, is a national key university under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and now is jointly supported by the Ministry of Education, the China Railway Corporation and Beijing Municipal Government. BJTU is one of the first universities listed in the “National 211 Project” in 1994 and the “985 Strength Discipline Innovation Platform Project” in 2011. Its Graduate School was established under the approval of the Ministry of Education in 2004. In 2013, as the leading institution, BJTU established the Collaborative Innovation Centre for Rail Transit Safety, which is among of the first 14 national collaborative centers of “National 2011 Projects”.
In 1981, BJTU became one of the first universities authorized for master and doctoral degree conferral. Since the recovery of postgraduate enrollment in 1978 and the implementation of academic degree system in 1981, BJTU has made great progress both in the scale and quality of postgraduate education. It conferred doctoral degrees to 2,380 candidates and master’s degree to 29,829 candidates, five of whom gained National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award and 11 were nominated for it.
BJTU now has 20 doctoral programs of first level discipline, 34 master programs of first level discipline, 10 professional master degree programs, 21 master of engineering programs, 2 National Key Disciplines of first level discipline, 2 National Key Disciplines of second level discipline and 5 Provincial and Ministerial Key Disciplines of first level discipline, 9 Provincial and Ministerial Key Disciplines of second level discipline and 2 Interdisciplinary Provincial and Ministerial Key Disciplines.
BJTU has 420 doctoral supervisors and 1,231 mater’s supervisors, among whom there are 4 CAS academicians, 8 CAE academicians, 5 State Council Disciplinary Evaluation Committee members, 8 Yangtze River Scholarship Distinguished Professors and Chair Professors and 7 winners of National Outstanding Youth Fund.
There are 2,427 PhD candidates and 7,395 on campus (including 2,395 full-time postgraduates of professional master degree).
Putting great emphasis on enhancing international exchange and cooperation, BJTU has established cooperative relationships with many renowned universities all over the world and carried out academic exchanges and joint education programs. BJTU also recruits master and PhD students from Hongkong, Macao, Taiwan and elsewhere. BJTU is a signatory of the State Scholarship Study Abroad Program for Postgraduate Studies.
Following the school motto “Learn and Practice”, BJTU will strengthen the education of talents and initiate the new phase of postgraduate education with the emphases on structure optimization, innovation and high quality. We believe in a better future of postgraduate education of BJTU.