Northern Jiaotong University is the predecessor of Beijing Jiaotong University.
Beijing Jiaotong University is one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in China. Its historical origin can be traced back to 1896. Its predecessor was the Railway Management Training Institute of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications founded by the Qing government in Beijing on September 1909. It is the cradle of telecommunication engineering, traffic engineering and management education in China. 192 1, which was merged and formed by Jiaotong University. It has been named as Beijing School of Jiaotong University, Beijing Jiaotong University, national chiao tung university, National Beiping Railway Management Institute, China Jiaotong University, Beijing Railway Institute and Northern Jiaotong University. In 2000, it merged with Beijing Electric Power Institute and was placed under the direct management of the Ministry of Education. In 2003, the name of "Beijing Jiaotong University" was restored.
By the end of 20 14 and 12, the collection resources of Beijing jiaotong university library featured railway transportation, a characteristic subject of our school, and paid attention to the collection of multidisciplinary documents such as engineering, management, economy, science, literature, law and philosophy, with a total volume of more than 7,938,500 volumes, including paper resources 1.8962 million volumes. There are CNKI, Wanfang, SCI, SSCI, EI and other Chinese and foreign databases 185, online Chinese and foreign full-text electronic journals 3 1000, more than 2.768 million dissertations on Chinese and foreign literature, and more than 77,000 articles on Chinese and foreign conference papers, regulations and standards.
The library has rich and precious railway transportation documents, such as: the first road statistics and the first traffic official newspaper of the postal department in the late Qing Dynasty; From 19 1 1 year, the Ministry of Communications has a record of railway line staff; Summary of railway line construction: Loan contract, railway accounting, railway laws and regulations signed by Premier Zhou Enlai on 1953, and handover documents of Changchun Railway in China.
The majors of Beijing Jiaotong University are: communication engineering, economics, computer science and technology, civil engineering, automation, electrical engineering and its automation.