Dalian Jiaotong University

Dalian Jiaotong University was founded in 1956，and became an institution of higher education featuring railway transports and interdisciplinary software talents cultivation. The University has 1113 full-time teachers, among which 155 are professors, 361 associate professors, and 53 doctoral supervisors. There are 18912 full-time students in the University. The University has formed an operation system by keeping undergraduate education and postgraduate education as the mainstay, and devoting strong efforts to develop international students’ education as well as continuing education. The University is among the second group of colleges and universities that implementing “Excellent Engineer Education Program” of the Ministry of Education, an university building high level sports teams for the nation, a base of sports culture research, a northeast base of continuing education of the Ministry of Railways, and a training base of shipping talents for Dalian as Northeast Asian international shipping hub. In December of 2001, the University established a demonstrative School of Software of Liaoning Province, taking the lead in exploring and practicing a five-year, double-majors interdisciplinary talents education mode as “traditional major + software engineering” in China, and became a “national experimental zone for personnel training model innovation”, an international training (Dalian) base of software talents, and an training base of Japan outsourcing talents in Liaoning Province. At present, we have 35 types of excellent courses at provincial level or above; 6 state and provincial-level engineering practical education centers; 9 provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration centers; and 2 provincial practical education base for college students. The University has paid high attention to quality-oriented education over college students and become an advanced unit in term of social practice by college students during summer vacations. The University has won the Outstanding Organization Awards twice in art shows of college students nationwide. The “Young Marxists Training Project” and other achievements were rated as outstanding achievements of college campus culture construction by the Ministry of Education. In recent three years, our students have won 369 awards in science and technology competitions at state and provincial levels. The University has cultivated more than one hundred thousand graduates since its establishment, which has brought the University a reputation of “the cradle of engineers for China’s rail transport equipment manufacturing”. The University has a Graduate School and 13 secondary schools to award bachelor’s, master’s and doctor’s degrees. There are 2 mobile post-doctoral research stations for first-level disciplines, 2 doctor programs for first-level disciplines, 7 doctor programs for second-level disciplines, 12 master programs for first-level disciplines, 43 master programs for second-level disciplines, 11 fields for engineering masters, and 2 majors of master degrees for university teachers. The University has 3 first-level key disciplines in the province, which are Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Transportation Engineering, and covers 12 second-level disciplines. The University offers 51 undergraduate majors involving 7 categories, which are Engineering, Management Science, Natural Science, Literature, Economics, Laws and Arts. Business Administration, Software Engineering and Computer Science & Technology are entitled to award the second bachelor’s degrees. There are 11 state-level and provincial-level key construction majors, which are Mechanical Engineering, Material Formation and Control Engineering, Vehicle Engineering, Civil Engineering, Software Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Automation, Environmental Engineering, and Measurement Control Technology and Instruments. Vehicle Engineering is a training base for undergraduate talents short of supply in Liaoning province. The University has the rights to recommend graduates to study for master’s degrees without taking examinations. In the aspect of international communication, the University successively established a stable cooperative relationship with more than 30 schools and educational research organizations in Australia, America, England, Japan, Russia, Singapore, Canada, Sweden, Germany, France, etc. and employed more than 100 honorary professors and visiting professors. In 2004, China-Japan Friendship Dalian Center for Human Resource Development settled down in the University. In 2011, the University became a member of the “Sino-American 1+2+1 Dual-Degree Project” launched by China Education Association for International Exchange and China Center for International Educational Exchange. In 2012, the University was formally identified by the Ministry of Education as a college for recruiting intern