西南交通大学希望学院于2009年经国家教育部批准，由首批进入“双一流”建设的百年名校西南交通大学和华西希望集团高标准、高起点创办，是以轨道交通为特色的一所全日制工科类普通本科高等院校，是四川省首批应用型转型改革试点院校、首批三全育人改革试点院校。学校设有成都校区和南充校区，主体成都校区坐落于金堂县大学城。

学校坚持社会主义办学方向，全面贯彻党的教育方针，弘扬“明德励志、务实创新、竢实扬华、自强不息”的校训精神，坚定“轨道交通”的办学特色，坚持“立足四川、服务西部、面向全国、走向国际”的办学定位，强化“以人为本，以学生为中心，把每个学生培养成才”的办学宗旨，实施“质量立校、人才强校、特色兴校、创新驱动、协同发展”的办学方略，努力培育以“宽基础、多口径、强能力、高素质”为特征的“现场工程师”应用型人才，致力建设“国内外知名、学科优势突出、行业特色鲜明、社会高度认可”的全国一流应用技术型大学。

学校按照强化内涵、彰显特色要求，设有轨道交通学院、土木工程学院、商学院、继续教育学院、国际教育学院、马克思主义学院、外语系、学前教育系、护理系、基础部、体育部等教学单位，开办了覆盖工学、管理学、文学、理学等学科门类的本专科专业近50个，面向全国22个省市招收优质生源，现有在校学生近28000人。持续汇聚品德高尚、治学严谨、造诣精深的学科带头人，多途径引培高素质“双师双能型”人才，现有专任教师1250余人，其中研究生学历占比80%以上。建成学校数智化实训中心、“理实一体化”实验实训平台100余个，与企业合作建设校外实训基地200余个，其中轨道交通“理实一体化实训中心”获批四川省实验教学示范中心、“测量实训基地”获批省级大学生校外实践教育基地建设项目。图书馆面积3.3余万平方米，拥有纸质图书130余万册、电子图书200万册。

学校依托西南交通大学强大的师资优势以及母体学校国家级、省级特色专业和实验教学示范中心，将所办专业打造为轨道交通核心专业群、支撑专业群、延伸专业群，已获批省级一流、示范专业建设点17个，实现省部级重点专业全覆盖。其中交通运输、土木工程等5个专业获批四川省一流本科专业建设点，工程管理、机械设计制造及其自动化、计算机科学与技术等6个专业获批省级应用型示范建设专业，工程造价、会计学等4个专业获批四川省民办高校重点特色专业质量提升计划建设项目，物流工程、财务管理等2个专业获批四川省民办高校特色（骨干）专业建设项目。获批省级“课程思政”示范教学团队项目2个和省一流课程、示范课程等35门。在校友会大学工学门类专业排名中，铁道工程专业位列西南地区应用型铁道工程专业第一，连续两年被评为 A++。建筑电气与智能化、交通运输、工程造价等多个专业跻身“软科中国大学专业排名”排行榜。

学校强化科研竞赛的引领作用，“十四五”以来，立项省部级、市厅级科研课题479项，立项教育部高校学生司供需对接就业育人项目18项，立项教育部产学合作协同育人项目15项，立项省级高等教育人才培养质量和教学改革项目4项，立项国家级大学生创新创业训练计划项目159项，立项省级大学生创新创业训练项目559项；发表论文1041篇，其中中文核心及以上期刊113篇；出版教材或专著43部；授权专利117件；学生参加各类学科竞赛获奖2572项，其中有国家级及以上奖374项、省级奖1186项。学校在“2022中国民办本科院校科研竞争力实力评价排名”中位列《基于增值评价的中国民办本科院校科研竞争力排名》第八名，在校友会2024年独立学院排行榜中名列第32位。

学校牢记“为谁培养人、培养什么人、怎样培养人”这个根本问题，深化教育教学改革创新，构建德智体美劳并举的育人体系，强化“就业—招生—培养”联动工作机制，加强与企业、院校、政府部门的战略性合作，推动校企地合作“全方位”“全过程”融合，通过订单培养、“3+1”“2+1”等模式，深度与成都地铁、成都现代有轨电车、成都铁路局、中铁八局、中铁建大桥局、京东商贸等企业合作交流，实现学生毕业与就业无缝对接。已累计输送5万余名高素质应用型人才，就业率和就业质量稳居同类院校前列，受到学生、家长和社会的广泛认可。作为四川省应用型本科高校联盟副理事长单位，学校积极推进资源共享、人才共育，获得良好反响。

学校积极推进国际交流合作，与马来西亚英迪国际大学、泰国西那瓦国际大学、白俄罗斯创业与管理学院、布列斯特国立技术大学、维捷布斯克国立大学、戈梅利国立大学、布列斯特国立大学、波洛茨克国立大学签订合作协议，发挥“国际课程周”品牌效应，实施“希望视界”教师提升计划，建设国际科研能力培养平台，培养具有国际视野的创新人才。学校于2021年被高校毕业生就业协会授予首批“海外实习就业基地学校”称号。

学校未来将围绕教育强国建设、全省教育“三区一高地”建设，以学生为中心，以育人为根本，以提质为核心，实施党建示范创建工程、立德树人工程、转设转型工程、教育教学综合改革工程、办学保障提升工程等“五大工程”，做优轨道交通特色，做强数智化转型，形成适应数字化时代应用型人才培养的新体系、新动能、新优势，开创为党育人为国育才新伟业，为服务区域乃至国家经济社会发展贡献新力量。

（数据截至2024年11月）

Approved by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Southwest Jiaotong University Hope College was founded in 2009 with exacting standards and a high starting point, through a collaboration between the century-old prestigious Southwest Jiaotong University, an early participant in the “Double First-Class” Initiative, and the Huaxi Hope Group. The college is a full-time undergraduate engineering institution that specializes in rail transportation, distinguishing itself as one of the pioneering institutions for applied transformation and reform in Sichuan Province, as well as among the first batch of pilot colleges for the reform of “ Sanquan Education Theory: cultivating students in the three dimensions of full participation, whole process and all-round interaction.” The college boasts campuses in Chengdu and Nanchong, with its primary Chengdu campus situated in the Jintang County College Town.

Adhering to the socialist direction of education and implementing the Party’s educational policy, Southwest Jiaotong University Hope College carries forward the spirit of “moral integrity and aspiration, pragmatic innovation, persistence and excellence, and self-improvement”. It upholds its education characteristic in “rail transportation” and positions itself as “based in Sichuan, serving the western regions, facing the whole country, and going global”. It has strengthened the educational tenet of “putting people first, focusing on students, and cultivating every student to become talented,” and has implemented the educational strategy of “establishing the college with quality, strengthening the college with talents, developing the college with characteristics, driving innovation, and promoting coordinated development.” We strive to cultivate applied talents with the characteristics of “broad foundation, multi-disciplinary, strong capabilities, and high quality” as “on-site engineers”. And We are committed to building a national first-class college of applied technology with “domestic and international reputation, outstanding disciplinary advantages, distinctive industrial characteristics and high social recognition”.

The college has established teaching units including the School of Rail Transportation, School of Civil Engineering, School of Business, School of Continuing Education, School of International Education, School of Marxism, Department of Foreign Languages, Department of Preschool Education, Department of Nursing, Basic Course Department and Sports Department, in accordance with the requirements of strengthening connotation and highlighting characteristics. It offers nearly 50 undergraduate and specialty programs covering disciplines such as engineering, management, liberal arts, and natural sciences. The college recruits high-quality students from 22 provinces and cities across the country, with a current enrollment of nearly 28,000 students. The college continuously attracts scholars who are morally upright, academically rigorous, and possess profound knowledge as discipline leaders. Multiple pathways are utilized to introduce and cultivate high-quality “dual-qualified” talents. Currently, there are over 1,250 full-time teachers at the college, of which over 80% are entitled with master’s degree. Over 100 Intelligent training centers and integrated experimental training platforms featured by integration of theory and practice have been established. Additionally, over 200 off-campus training bases have been built in collaboration with enterprises. Among them, the “Theoretical and Practical Integration Training Center” in School of Railway Transportation has been approved as the Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Sichuan Province, and the “Measurement Training Base” has been approved as the Provincial University Students’ Off-campus Practical Education Base Construction Project. Besides, its library covers more than 33,000 square meters with more than 1.3 million paper books and 2 million e-books.

Based on the advantageous faculty and educational resources of Southwest Jiaotong University, including her distinctive specialties at national and provincial levels and experimental teaching demonstration centers, our majors have been organized into core discipline clusters focusing on rail transportation, supporting discipline clusters, and extended discipline clusters. We have been approved 17 first-class and demonstration specialty construction points at the provincial level, achieving comprehensive coverage of provincial and ministerial-level key majors. Notably, five majors such as Railway Transportation, Civil Engineering have been approved as first-class undergraduate major construction sites in Sichuan Province. Six majors such as Engineering Management, Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation, Computer Science and Technology have been approved as provincial application-oriented demonstration construction majors. Additionally, four majors such as Engineering Costing and Accounting have been approved as key specialty quality improvement projects of Sichuan private colleges. Two majors, namely Logistics Engineering and Financial Management, have been identified as characteristically professional construction projects of private colleges in Sichuan Province. Our college has also been approved by two demonstration teaching groups of provincial “Ideological and Political Teaching in All Courses”, as well as 35 provincial-level first-class courses and application-oriented demonstration courses. According to an engineering major ranking compiled by Alumni Association University, our railway engineering major heads the list among applied railway engineering majors in Southwest China, and has received A++ rating for two consecutive years. Furthermore, majors such as Building Electricity and Intelligence, Transportation, and Engineering Cost are listed in the “ShanghaiRanking Consultancy’s Best Chinese University Majors Ranking”.

Hope College has strengthened its leading role in scientific researches and  competitions. Since the 14th-Five-Year Plan, 479 scientific research projects at provincial and ministerial level and municipal level, 18 projects of supply and demand docking employment education projects of the Department of College Students of the Ministry of Education, 15 collaborative education projects of industry-university cooperation of the Ministry of Education, 4 projects of provincial higher education talent training quality and teaching reform projects have been initiated. What’s more, there are 159 national innovation and entrepreneurship training programs and 559 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship training programs for college students; 1041 papers have been published, including 113 in Chinese core journals and journals of higher level; 43 textbooks and monographs have been published; 117 patents have been authorized. Furthermore, we have received 2572 awards from students participating in various disciplinary competitions, of which 374 awards are at the national and above awards, and 1186 awards are at the provincial level. In the “2022 China Private Undergraduate Colleges Research Competitiveness Evaluation Ranking”, our college ranked the eighth in the “China Private Undergraduate Colleges Research Competitiveness Ranking based on Value-added Evaluation” and 32nd in the Alumni Association’s 2024 Independent College Ranking.

With “who and how to train, and to what end” as the core, the college has deepened the reform and innovation of education and teaching, built an all-encompassing education system, strengthened the “employment-enrollment-cultivation” linkage mechanism, advanced the strategic cooperation with enterprises, colleges and universities, and government departments, and developed the “comprehensive and whole-process” school-enterprise integration and cooperation. Through order-oriented training, “3+1”, “2+1” modes, we have deeply cooperated and exchanged with Chengdu Metro Co., LTD., Chengdu Modern Tram Co., LTD., Chengdu Railway Bureau, China Railway No.8 Engineering Group Co., Ltd. (CREC8), Bridge Engineering Bureau of China Railway Construction Group, JD.com. Inc etc., realizing a seamless docking between the graduation and employment of students. More than 50,000 high-quality applied talents have been delivered, and the employment rate and quality steadily rank among the top of similar institutions, which are widely recognized by students, parents and the society. As the vice-chairman of the Applied Universities Alliance in Sichuan Province, we actively promote resource sharing and talent co-cultivation, and all has achieved good response.

We vigorously promote international exchanges and cooperation and have signed cooperation agreements with INTI International University Malaysia, Shinawatra University Thailand, Belarusian Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, Belarusian National Technical University, Vitebsk State University, Gomel State University, Brest State University, Poltava National Technical University. International courses are fully offered and utilized. Simultaneously, the “Hope Horizon” faculty improvement program has been put into operation, and the platform for developing international scientific research capabilities has been established to  train creative talent with a worldwide perspective . In 2021, we were awarded the first batch of “Base School of Overseas Internship and Employment” by the Association for College Graduates Employment.

In the future, Southwest Jiaotong University Hope College will focus on the construction of a strong education country and the construction of the “three zones and one highland” of education in the province. With placing students as the center, education as the foundation, and quality improvement as the core, the college will implement the “five major projects” of party building demonstration and creation, moral and political education, transformation, comprehensive reform of education and teaching, and school guarantee improvement. It will optimize the characteristics of rail transit, strengthen the digital transformation. In the end, we’ll create a new, energetic system with advantages to train applied talents in the digital age, cultivate talents for the Party and the nation, and support the regional and national economies and societies.

(Data as of November 2024)