Southwest Jiaotong University, founded in 1896, spanning three centuries, it is the first national "211 Project", "features 985 Project" construction, the first to enter the national "2011 Plan" and a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, Graduate School located in historical and cultural city, a modern international metropolis - Chengdu, formerly known as the Northern Railway official School Shanhaiguan (Imperial Chinese Railway college), is one of the first national university in modern school, is China's civil engineering, traffic engineering, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering birthplace of higher education, is one of the two earliest sources "Jiaotong University" (Chiao Tung University), in the name of "Tangshan Jiaotong University," the Art Institute of Chicago, known as the "Oriental Cornell," said.