Abstract: The Changjiang Scholars are outstanding representatives of high-level talents in universities. Their career trajectories have become the focus of multidisciplinary attention. In this study, the University of Changjiang Scholars 1998-2016 is chosen as the research subjects, and the CVs of 367 professors are selected and coded in depth. As the empirical results show, there are differences in the age, disciplines and geographical distribution of Changjiang Scholars' overall development trend; the Kaplan-Merrier results indicated that researchers with diversified educational background would be more quickly promoted as an associate professor or a professor, whereas the opposite results are discovered with single education background. Using Cox proportional hazard model, it reveals the age reduces the risk of survival of the associate professors and professors, and the scholars received study abroad spent less time becoming assistant professor. Furthermore, the postdoctoral experiencing has a negative effect on being associate professor. Finally, the theoretical and practical implications of this study are discussed.