Dalian Jiaotong University located in a beautiful seaside city Dalian city. It was founded in 1956, it was attached to Ministry of Railways, now it is administrated by Liaoning Government.

The university has 13 associate colleges and right to award bachelor, master, doctor three degrees, there are nearly 20,000 full-time students.

The Software Institute of Dalian Jiaotong University is one of the exemplary software colleges approved by Liaoning Education Department in December, 2001, and it is also the first international software talents' training base (Dalian) rated by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs.

Dalian Jiaotong University includes two campuses, one is Shahekou Campus, and the other is Lvshun Campus. Campus covers a total area of 852 thousand square meters. The Software Institute of Dalian Jiaotong University is located in the southwestern end of the software industry belt along Dalian lvshun south road. In 2002, aimed at training inter-disciplinary applied talents who "not only have the traditional professional knowledge, but also information technology", our university took the lead in implementing the mode of training five-year two-specialty ("traditional major + software engineering") compound software talents, which has had a great impact in China.