History of BJTU
1909 The School of Railway Management, the predecessor of BJTU, was founded.
1901 The School of Railway Management offered posts and elecommunications programs so as to boost the posts and telecommunications industry of China.
1917 The School of Railway Management was restructured into Beijing Railway Management School and Beijing Posts and Telecommunications School in line with requirements of posts and telecommunications as two different disciplines.
1921 The Shanghai Industrial Technical School, Tangshan Industrial Technical School, Beijing Railway Management School and Beijing Posts and elecommunication School merged into Jiaotong University with three branch schools Based in Beijing, Shanghai and Tangshan. Our university was named Jiaotong University Beijing Branch School.
1923 The name of Jiaotong University Beijing Branch School was changed into Beijing Jiaotong University.
1928 The three branch schools in Beijing, Tangshan and Shanghai reunited into Jiaotong University.
1929 The branch school in Beijing adopted the name of Beiping Jiaotong Management School of Jiaotong University and Scored great achievements until the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japan.
1938 In times of the War of Resistance against Japan, Beiping Jiaotong Management School Of Jiaotong University was moved to Xiangtan of Hunan Province and then to Pingyue (now Fuquan County) of Guizhou Province.
1944 It was moved to Bishan of Sichuan Province, where she combined with Tangshan Engineering College till 1945.
1946 The University was moved back to Beiping and her name was altered into National Beiping Railway Management College.
1949 Beiping Railway Management College, Tangshan together to ? Establish China Jiaotong University. Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central People’s Government, appointed Mao Yisheng, a famous specialist in bridge engineering and academician, as president of the University, which had under it Beiping
Management College and Tangshan Engineering College. The Department of Railway Telecommunication Management was also established then.?
1950 China Jiaotong University changed its name into Northern Jiaotong University, to which was facilitated Beijing Railway College and Tangshan Engineering College.
1951 Chairman Mao Zedong autographed the name of the University. The University established Railway business Department.
1952 Headquarter of Nothern Jiaotong University was removed. Beijing Railway College and Tangshan Railway College were affiliated to the Ministry of Railways.
1953 Harbin Railway College was incorporated with Beijing Railway College.
1956 Beijing Railway College established Railway Construction Department, Railway Mechanical Department,Electrification Engineering Department and Applied Sciences Department.
1960 Beijing Railway College was approved to be a key University of the country by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
1970 The name of Beijing Railway College was changed into Northern Jiaotong University.
1981 Northern Jiaotong University was among the first group of universities authorized by the Central government to confer master and doctoral degrees and to appraise and appoint associate professors, professors and doctoral supervisors.
1994 Nothern Jiaotong University was qualified for the first round of competition in its efforts to enter the Project 211 and became one of the universities supported by this project.
2000 Northern Jiaotong University united with Beijing Electric Engineering College and its administration was taken over by the Ministry of Education from the Ministry of Railways.
2003 The university resumed its name of Beijing Jiaotong University with the approval of the Ministry of Education