Lanzhou Jiaotong University was established in 1958. It was originally called “Lanzhou Railway University”, but was renamed “Lanzhou Jiaotong University” in April, 2003. Since then, the school as maintained a tradition of rigorous scholarship, high-standards, and striving to cultivate students with a strong academic foundation, a wide breadth of knowledge, high competence, strong moral character, creativity, and an international perspective. Our departments of civil engineering,
Lanzhou Jiaotong University was established in 1958. It was originally called “Lanzhou Railway University”, but was renamed “Lanzhou Jiaotong University” in April, 2003. Since then, the school as maintained a tradition of rigorous scholarship, high-standards, and striving to cultivate students with a strong academic foundation, a wide breadth of knowledge, high competence, strong moral character, creativity, and an international perspective. Our departments of civil engineering, water supply and drainage engineering, traffic and transportation, vehicle engineering, rail transit signal and control, electrical engineering and automation, communication engineering, and other disciplines associated with railways are highly regarded and stand out from the crowd. In 2005, the quality of undergraduate education obtained a commendation from the Ministry of Education and was rated as “excellent”. In 2011 we were part of the second group of universities chosen to implement the Ministry of Education’s new plan for promoting excellence in engineer talents education, in 2012 the university was selected as one of “2011-2012’s typical universities with high quality job placement of graduating students”, and in 2017 were chosen as part of the second group of model schools for innovation and educational reform.
Lanzhou Jiaotong University currently offers 61 undergraduate majors, 23 first-level master’s degree disciplines with 105 majors, 5 first-level doctoral disciplines with 34 majors, 4 post-doctoral research stations, and 19 key provincial subjects. The major of traffic and transportation engineering was ranked eighth in the nation during the third round of assessments conducted by the Ministry of Education.
The university has two dual-employed Academicians, one specially-appointed Yangtze River scholar, four personnel selected by “One Billion Talents ” program, three national new century personnel, 41 leading talents of Gansu Province and more than 230 provincial level expert teams. We have 1418 full-time instructors, including 764 professionals with senior titles in total 53.88%, 243 professors and 497 assistant professors; We currently employ 1175 faculty members with post-graduate degrees, 82.86% of the faculty. Of them, 348 have doctorate degrees, and 827 have masters degrees. We have four innovation teams of Yangtze River scholars, one national-level education team, 12 province-level education teams, and 11 provincial-level famous teachers. The current enrollment includes over 22,000 undergraduates, 82% of whom are majoring in engineering, and 4351 post-graduate students, including 4035 graduate students and 316 doctoral students. There are also 2663 advanced vocational students, and 276 international students.
The school is continuously expanding its research capability and increasing its level of service to society, and was the first school to undertake scientific research projects for the Qinghai-Tibet railway as well as the school which undertook the most projects of Qinghai-Tibet railway the In 2008, we received the national technological progress award, and were ranked as one of the nation’s leading institutions. The results of our projects have successively earned national technological progress awards of the second level, special awards for progress in railway technology, and Gansu province’s first class technological progress awards, among others. During the past two years, our faculty have published 1494 research papers that were searched for in China’s Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database, the CSTPCD, undertaken 393 new research projects, and obtained 30 provincial-level commendations for their results. The funds of scientific research is approaching to 100 million Yuan annually.There ae 2 national engineering technology research centers, 14 provincial engineering research centers and 15 provincial key labs.
After sixty years of vigorous efforts on behalf of the country, Lanzhou Jiaotong university has become one of Gansu province’s leading research institutions. In recent years, our graduates have maintained a high rate of quality employment, with more students entering the Chinese railway industry than from any other school. Prominent alumni include the Chinese Academy of Science’s Lai Yuanming, and Wang Shi, the former president of the board of directors of Vanke Real Estate. A total of over 160,000 students have graduated, and our graduates have obtained consistently good reviews from their employers and work units, and widespread approval from society
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