Beijing Jiaotong University is a double first-class university with distinctive industry characteristics, featuring transportation engineering as its advantageous and signature discipline. Under the first-level discipline of transportation engineering, traffic information engineering and control is a national key discipline. The railway communication and signaling major is one of the two earliest majors established since the founding of the university, renowned for its strengths in research and talent cultivation in railway dedicated communications and railway signaling technology. To adapt to the current demands of scientific and technological development, as well as the growth needs of the high-speed rail and other rail transit industries, the university has been implementing grassroots academic organizational reforms since 2020. These reforms integrate resources and follow a "five-in-one" discipline construction reform approach to better enhance the university's talent cultivation capabilities. Against this backdrop, in 2023, the university reviewed and restructured the disciplines of the former School of Electronics and the School of Computer Science, leading to the establishment of the Beijing Jiaotong University School of Automation and Intelligence.

The college currently has 3 departments and 7 research institutes/centers. The Department of Rail Transit Signals, the Department of Automation, and the Department of Intelligent Science and Technology are respectively responsible for the construction of the Rail Transit Signals and Control major, the Automation major, the Intelligent Equipment and Systems major, and the Artificial Intelligence (Intelligent Systems and Applications) major. Undergraduate admissions are conducted under the broad category of "Automation Category." The 7 research institutes/centers are: the Institute of Autonomous Operation Technology, the Institute of Intelligent Train Control Technology, the Center for Autonomous Intelligence and Unmanned Systems, the Institute of Rail Transit Signals, the Institute of Advanced Control Systems, the Institute of Maglev Transit Control Technology, and the Institute of Electromagnetic Safety and Electromagnetic Protection. The research institutes and centers are responsible for scientific research and graduate student training in various directions. The college has a strong faculty, with 115 current faculty and staff members, including 34 full professors and 46 associate professors, 96 master's supervisors, and 45 PhD supervisors. There is 1 national "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" teaching master, 3 national leading talents, 1 recipient of the "National Outstanding Youth Fund," 3 recipients of the "National Excellent Youth Fund," 3 young and middle-aged scientific and technological innovation leaders under the Innovation Talent Advancement Plan, 1 "Young Yangtze River Scholar," 2 Beijing Science and Technology New Stars, and 4 China Association for Science and Technology Youth Talent Support Program recipients, among others. The college currently undertakes the construction of 2 national first-class undergraduate majors: Rail Transit Signals and Control and Automation. The Rail Transit Signals and Control major has been approved as a Beijing key first-class major. The Automation major has passed national engineering education professional accreditation and has been rated as a national characteristic major. Both the Automation and Rail Transit Signals and Control majors are included in the National Excellent Engineer Education Training Plan. The college has 8 national-level courses, including national first-class courses and national quality open courses, as well as over 10 high-level textbooks such as national planned textbooks. In recent years, it has won multiple national first- and second-prize teaching achievement awards. In terms of graduate education, the college has first-level discipline doctoral and master's degree authorization points in "Control Science and Engineering" and the second-level discipline "Traffic Information Engineering and Control" under Transportation Engineering. It also has engineering doctoral and master's degree authorization points in 4 professional fields: "Artificial Intelligence," "Next-Generation Electronic Information Technology," "Control Engineering," and "Network and Information Security." Currently, the college enrolls nearly 200 master's students and nearly 40 doctoral students each year. Over the years, the further study rate for undergraduate students in the college's disciplines and majors has remained above 63%, the employment rate has remained above 98%, and the graduate employment rate has reached 100%.

The college owns and undertakes the construction of multiple major scientific research platforms, including four national-level scientific research platforms such as the National Key Laboratory of Advanced Rail Transit Autonomous Operation, the National Engineering Research Center for Rail Transit Operation Control Systems, the Frontier Science Center for Smart High-Speed Rail, and the 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center for Rail Transit Safety, as well as multiple provincial and ministerial-level scientific research platforms such as the National Accredited Laboratory for Electromagnetic Compatibility, the International Joint Research Center for Rail Transit Control and Safety, the Beijing Laboratory for Urban Rail Transit, and the Beijing Engineering Technology Research Center for Rail Transit Electromagnetic Compatibility and Satellite Navigation.

The college adheres to the research philosophy of "conducting applied basic theoretical research combined with the background and forming key technologies combined with major practical needs." It has played an important role in the research, construction, and development of communication signaling technology and electromagnetic compatibility technology in the fields of high-speed rail, urban rail transit, and maglev. Many research achievements have reached the international advanced level, giving rise to a series of autonomous research outcomes such as locomotive signals, CBTC systems, and FAO systems. These achievements have incubated listed companies including Jiaokong Technology and Jiaoda Sinuo. The research results have provided crucial support in major national projects such as the six railway speed-up initiatives, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, high-speed railways, and urban rail transit. The college has undertaken projects under the National Key R&D Program, major projects and key projects from the National Natural Science Foundation, as well as multiple basic and applied research projects that lead the development of the rail transit field. It has won multiple awards, including the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the China Electronics Society Science and Technology Award, the China Railway Society Science and Technology Award, and the Zhan Tianyou Railway Science and Technology Award.

The college always adheres to the fundamental task of fostering virtue and cultivating talents, drawing on its profound disciplinary foundation, outstanding faculty team, strong academic atmosphere, and cutting-edge scientific research and teaching conditions. It strives forward with determination and forges ahead unremittingly, cultivating qualified successors who possess ideals, responsibility, a sense of duty, and a mission-oriented mindset for the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics. It contributes to the school's goal of becoming a "world-class university with distinctive characteristics" and provides a solid platform for basic theoretical research and technological innovation in the development of China's rail transit field.