The College of Civil Engineering and Transportation was established in 2023 due to the university’s restructuring of disciplines and programs. It integrates the former School of Civil Engineering, the Transportation Engineering and Transportation Management programs from the College of Transportation, and the Logistics Engineering program from the College of Engineering Technology. After its establishment, the College of Civil Engineering and Transportation has become one of the largest colleges at Northeast Forestry University, with more than 3,200 students currently enrolled. The college offers seven programs: Civil Engineering, Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering, Engineering Management, Transportation, Transportation Engineering, Intelligent Construction and Smart Transportation, and Logistics Engineering. Of these, five are designated national-level first-class undergraduate programs, and one is a provincial-level first-class undergraduate program. The college is home to various advanced research and academic qualifications, including a postdoctoral station in Transportation Engineering, a first-level doctoral discipline in Transportation Engineering, and a second-level doctoral discipline in Transportation Infrastructure Engineering. The college also offers master’s programs in Civil Engineering, Management Science and Engineering, a second-level master’s discipline in Transportation Infrastructure Engineering, and three professional master’s degrees in Transportation, Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, and Engineering Management. Within the Transportation Engineering field, the college offers doctoral and master’s degrees in areas such as Transportation Infrastructure Engineering (formerly Road and Railway Engineering), Transportation Planning and Management, Traffic Information and Control Engineering, Vehicle Engineering, Traffic Safety and Environment, and Cold Region Traffic Disaster Reduction Engineering. The Civil Engineering discipline offers five secondary fields of study: Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Heating, Gas Supply, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Engineering, Disaster Prevention and Protection Engineering, and Bridge and Tunnel Engineering. The Civil and Hydraulic Engineering professional degree is divided into two fields: Civil Engineering and Artificial Environmental Engineering.

The college boasts a high-quality faculty team, with over 160 full-time teachers, more than 80% of whom hold doctoral degrees. The faculty includes one flexible recruitment professor, one foreign adjunct professor, two provincial-level teaching experts, one provincial-level ideological and political teaching expert, and ten university-level teaching experts. Additionally, two teachers have been honored with the title “Advanced Individual in Teacher Ethics” at the Heilongjiang Provincial University and College.

The college’s Experimental Teaching Center is a provincial-level demonstration center for experimental teaching, with four key laboratories and two “Double Basic” laboratories recognized by Heilongjiang Province. These facilities provide excellent educational and research resources, fostering the development of students’ experimental skills, scientific research abilities, and innovation in entrepreneurship. The center actively supports open and innovative experimental activities, with 40% of students participating in competitions and innovation projects. Every year, the college achieves outstanding results in national student competitions. The college also hosts the Engineering Quality Supervision and Management Testing Center of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (CMA certification by the National Technical Supervision Bureau) and the Road Low-Carbon Construction and Maintenance Engineering Technology Research Center in Heilongjiang Province’s Northeast Permafrost Region, providing valuable platforms for teaching, research, and university-industry collaboration.

The college emphasizes the integration of industry, education, and research, focusing on technology development, technology reserves, technology transfer, and technical services. It capitalizes on the characteristics of cold regions to conduct scientific research in civil engineering and transportation. Over the past three years, the college has undertaken more than 520 national and provincial-level projects, with total research funding exceeding 100 million yuan, achieving significant results in serving the local economy.