The outstanding school-running traditions of Jiaotong University include

The excellent school-running tradition of Jiaotong University includes a high starting point and a solid foundation. Strict requirements, focusing on practice; Seeking innovation.

Xi Jiaotong University is the earliest famous institution of higher learning in China and a key university directly under the Ministry of Education. Developing in the same direction with the motherland has made outstanding contributions to China's higher education, national economic construction, especially the western development.

The school adheres to the educational idea that "to be a first-class scholar, a first-class career and a first-class talent, we must first sharpen our first-class character", and take moral education as the fundamental task to construct and improve the "general education+wide-caliber professional education" and the undergraduate-graduate-doctoral training system.

Adhering to the school-running orientation of "taking root in the west, serving the country and being world-class", the school has sent a large number of high-level professionals to the country, especially to the west, leaving an indelible mark on the history of higher education in China and writing an era chapter of talent training in Xi Jiaotong University.

As early as 1978, Xi Jiaotong University extensively discussed the adjustment and transformation of majors, considered the division of majors according to the development of disciplines, and gradually set up majors in emerging disciplines and strategic key disciplines. Over the years, the school has closely followed the national strategic development and people's livelihood needs, combined with long-term development goals and professional characteristics, and conducted extensive research with reference to world-class universities and their disciplines. Leading, planning and focusing on professional adjustment and transformation, constantly broadening the professional caliber and cultivating compound talents.