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Outline of SWJTU
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Southwest
Jiaotong University (SWJTU) was founded in Shanhaiguan in 1896. Having been
relocated a number of times; it is presently situated in Chengdu,
the provincial capital of Sichuan Province. It is a key university
directly under the administration of the Ministry of Education, and has
developed into an engineering-highlighted multi-disciplinary
university incorporating science, management, economics, liberal
arts and law.
SWJTU covers an area of 169 hectares: the Chengdu campus consists
of 76 hectares and the Emei campus 93 hectares . The total area of the school
grounds is approximately 670,000 square meters.
With over one hundred years of history, SWJTU has established a
complete higher education system consisting of undergraduate,
postgraduate, doctorate, continuing education and distance education
programs. The university has 11 schools, 38 departments, 32
undergraduate specialties, master's programs in 58 fields, doctorate
programs in 24 fields and 6 postdoctoral centers. There are around
23,000 students on campus now, SWJTU has a high-qualified staff with
1,400 teachers, including almost 900 professors and associate
professors, 3 members of the Chinese Academy of Science, and 2
members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. There are also more
than 100 visiting professors from other educational institutes
within and outside China presently employed by the university.
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In its 100 years of steady development, SWJTU has cultivated over
seventy thousand engineers, technicians and managers; a few of the
most notable being Mao Yisheng, Zhu Kezhen and Lin Tongyan. However,
may other world-famous experts and scholars, including more than
forty academicians of the Chinese Academy of Science and the Chinese
Academy of Engineering
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have either studied or taught at the
university. Furthermore, SWJTU is well known for its rigorous
scholarship and has long been considered to be an excellent center
of higher education pursued by many young students at home and
abroad.
SWJTU is a center of both education and research. It has 3 key
disciplines at the state level, and 17 at the ministerial and
provincial level. Located at the university are also 16 research
institutes and 15 research institutes involved in cross disciplines.
Traction Power Lab, the only key state laboratory of the national
transportation system, is based at SWJTU. There are also 10 key
laboratories at the ministerial level and another 66 teaching and
research laboratories. During the "Eighth Five-year Plan",
over 180 scientific research projects have won prizes awarded by the
state, the province and the Railway Ministry. Over 9,000 research
papers have been published in academic journals within and outside
the nation. At the end of 2000, the first man-loading high
temperature super-conducting maglev test vehicle in the world was
born at SWJTU.
(Authorized abstracting from the Web Site of Southwest Jiaotong
University:
http://www.swjtu.edu.cn/english/info.htm)
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