Beijing Jiaotong University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, co founded by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Transport, the Beijing Municipal People's Government and China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. It is also a national "211 Project", "985 Project Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" and "double first-class" construction university. Beijing Jiaotong University, as one of the three sources of Jiaotong University, has a history dating back to 1896. Its predecessor was the railway management school founded by the Qing government. It is the first university in China that specializes in training management talents, and the birthplace of modern railway management and telecommunications education in China. After the development of Shuangjiazi, the school has formed a complete discipline training system with the advantages of information, management and other disciplines, the characteristics of transportation science and technology, and the coordinated development of engineering, management, economics, science, literature, law, philosophy and other disciplines. The school has strong discipline strength. High quality completion of the first round of "double first-class" construction task - "smart transportation" first-class discipline field construction.
The economics and management discipline of Beijing Jiaotong University started at the beginning of the establishment of the university, and is the discipline with the longest school running history. For more than a century, the development of disciplines has always been mutually confirmed and closely overlapped with the fate of the country and the development of schools. It has been growing through the years and has become increasingly distinctive. In 1996, the school integrated the School of Economics, the Department of Industrial and Building Management Engineering, and the Department of Material Management Engineering to establish the School of Economics and Management. The school entered a new stage of development and became stronger. In 2011, the college was approved by the Ministry of Education as one of the first 17 pilot colleges in China. In 2019, the college won 3 PALMS in Eduniversal's ranking of the world's best business schools, ranking 10th in China's best business schools. On December 28, 2017, the Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center of the Ministry of Education announced the fourth round of national discipline evaluation results, and the three first level disciplines of the college ranked top. Among them, the business administration discipline ranks in the top 10%, ranking A-level; Applied economics ranks in the top 20%, ranking B+; Management science and engineering disciplines rank in the top 20%, ranking in the B+list. The economics and management of the college have been listed in the "soft science world-class discipline ranking", showing a strong comprehensive strength of the discipline. The school passed the EQUIS certification in February 2021, the AACSB certification in July, and the AMBA&BGA joint certification in December, becoming the 116th business school in the world, the 13th in mainland China, and the third in Beijing to pass the three major international certifications. It is also the first business school in China to pass the three major international certifications within one year, It marks that the school running quality of the college has reached the internationally recognized first-class level.
Beijing Jiaotong University is one of the first 17 universities to carry out MBA education and one of the first 30 universities to carry out EMBA education. The MBA education program of Beijing Jiaotong University adheres to the school motto of "knowing and doing", undertakes the mission of "contributing business wisdom, cultivating leading talents, and benefiting the economy and society", and relies on the School of Economics and Management's "rich teaching resources, first-class faculty, extensive international exchanges, colorful learning and life, personalized career development services, and broad employment channels". The MBA education program of Beijing Jiaotong University gives full play to the university's development background with the characteristics of the school industry. Based on the industrial demand, it strengthens the characteristics of transportation and logistics, and actively extends to the related fields of capital finance, information technology, construction real estate, tourism and health, providing strong support for the development of the industry, making the MBA education program of Beijing Jiaotong University a distinctive feature of the training industry and disciplines, It is the cradle of compound senior management talents with humanistic spirit, courage to innovate, global vision and unity of knowledge and practice.