Shandong Jiaotong University was founded in 1956. In 2000, the Ministry of Communications transferred to Shandong Province and implemented a management system jointly established by the central and local governments. In 2011, it was approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council as a pilot work unit for cultivating graduate students with professional degrees. In 2013, it was approved as a project construction unit of a famous school for the cultivation of applied talents in higher education in Shandong Province. It is also a strategic research unit for the pilot reform of applied technology universities of the Ministry of Education. In 2017, it was approved to approve the Shandong Province master's degree and awarded the construction unit (category A). The school is a typical university with the "Top 50 National College Graduate Employment".

The school covers an area of ​​more than 3200 acres and is divided into 4 campuses: Changqing Campus, Wuyingshan Campus, Weihai Campus, and East Campus. At present, there are more than 25,000 full-time students, more than 1,900 in-service faculty, 6 people who enjoy special government subsidies from the State Council, 18 provincial and ministerial outstanding teachers, and 4 middle-aged and young experts with outstanding contributions in Shandong Province.

The school is equipped with School of Automotive Engineering, School of Transportation Civil Engineering, School of Engineering Machinery, School of Transportation and Logistics Engineering, School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, School of Aeronautics, School of Rail Transit, School of Science, School of Economics and Management, School of Foreign Languages, Art and Design School, Transportation Law School, International Education College, Maritime College, Ship and Marine Engineering College, International Business School, Marxism College 17 secondary colleges, also has a basic teaching department, physical education department, further education college (vocational technical college ). 61 undergraduate majors including civil engineering, nautical technology, aircraft manufacturing engineering, flight technology, rail traffic signal and control, robot engineering, data science and big data technology, and two master's degree engineering majors in transportation and machinery, covering engineering, science, Economics, management, arts, arts, and law 7 universities, including road and railway engineering, transportation planning and management, 4 provincial key disciplines, transportation tool application engineering, 1 provincial key key discipline, transportation, civil engineering Engineering 2 national-level specialty majors, logistics engineering, vehicle engineering 2 national-level first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, machinery design and manufacturing and automation, ship and marine engineering, marketing and other 7 provincial-level specialty majors, safety engineering, automotive services 13 provincial first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites including engineering, rail transit signaling and control, transportation engineering passed the professional certification of engineering education, and 5 provincial high-level applied construction majors (groups) including marine engineering, logistics engineering, and finance The engineering group of marine engineering has been approved to establish a project for the docking industry project for the conversion of old and new kinetic energy in Shandong education services.

In the past five years, the school has achieved fruitful results in teaching and research. Approved by the Ministry of Education Industry-University Cooperation Collaborative Education Project, the Ministry of Education's first batch of "new engineering" research and practice projects, Shandong Province education teaching topics, provincial graduate education quality improvement plan projects, provincial undergraduate teaching reform research projects and many other topics The project was awarded 10 Shandong Higher Education Teaching Achievement Awards, including 1 special prize, 3 first prizes, and 6 second prizes. The number and level of awards have greatly increased. Won more than 10 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards such as Shandong Science and Technology Award, Shandong Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award, among which "Silver Engineering Characteristics and Subgrade Long-Term Service Performance Guarantee Technology of the Middle and Lower Yellow River" won the first prize of 2018 Shandong Province Science and Technology Progress Award Published more than 2,000 academic papers including SCI, EI, CSSCI, etc., published 148 academic monographs, authorized 286 invention patents, formulated more than 10 industry and local standards, and established scientific research projects and funding increased year by year.

The school has 1 national key laboratory for the transportation industry, 1 laboratory of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (Shandong), 3 engineering technology research centers in Shandong Province, 1 engineering laboratory in Shandong Province, 4 key laboratories in the transportation industry in Shandong Province, 3 Provincial Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers in Shandong Province are the leading units of Shandong University Collaborative Innovation Center "Intelligent Transportation Collaborative Innovation Center". In addition, the Weihai campus has also been approved to set up 3 Weihai Engineering Technology Research Centers and 1 Weihai Key Laboratory. In terms of humanities and social sciences research platforms, there are two international business research centers and transportation education research bases, and two humanities and social science research bases in Shandong universities.