northwest university

Northwest University originated from Shaanxi University Hall and Imperial University Hall Quick-Study Academy of Science and Technology in 1902. It was named Northwest University in 1912. It was renamed National Northwest University in 1923. In 1937, the National Peking University, Peking Normal University, Beiyang Institute of Technology and Peking Research Institute moved west to Shaanxi to form the National Xi'an Temporary University. In 1938, it was renamed National Northwest United University and in 1939 it was renamed National Northwest University. After the founding of New China, it became a comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education. In 1950, it was renamed Northwest University. In 1958, it was transferred to the jurisdiction of Shaanxi Province. In 1978, it was designated as a national key university. It is now a national "double first-class" construction university, a national "211 Project" construction university, and a university jointly built by the Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Province.

In the long-term development process, Northwest University has formed the school-running philosophy of "carrying forward the national spirit, integrating world ideas, and shouldering the heavy responsibility of building the Northwest", bringing together many famous teachers, producing a number of high-level academic achievements, and cultivating a large number of outstanding talents who are capable of serving the world. It enjoys a good academic reputation and social prestige and is known as the "Mother of Chinese Petroleum Talents", "Cradle of Economists", and "Cradle of Writers".

The school currently has three campuses: Taibai Campus, Taoyuan Campus, and Chang'an Campus, with a total area of ​​more than 2,360 acres. There are 24 colleges (departments) and graduate schools, 1 Sino-foreign cooperative education institution, and 6 non-directly affiliated hospitals. There are 88 undergraduate majors, of which 32 majors have been selected as national first-class undergraduate major construction points. The school currently has 24 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, 36 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, 18 professional degree authorization categories, and 24 postdoctoral research mobile stations. There are 2 "world-class disciplines" construction disciplines, geology and archaeology, 1 first-level national key discipline (covering 5 second-level disciplines), 4 second-level national key disciplines and 1 national key (cultivation) discipline. The school currently has 3 bases for the Ministry of Education's Basic Discipline Outstanding Student Cultivation Program 2.0, 7 national talent training bases and a national college student cultural quality education base, 7 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, and 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center. The school has 1 national key laboratory, 1 national engineering technology research center, 1 national "Belt and Road" joint laboratory, 1 national innovative talent training demonstration base, 3 national international science and technology cooperation bases, 3 national and local joint engineering research centers, 3 national higher education discipline innovation and intelligence bases, 1 provincial and ministerial co-construction national key laboratory (preparatory), 1 Ministry of Education key research base for humanities and social sciences, 3 Ministry of Education country and regional research filing centers, 1 National Ethnic Affairs Commission "Belt and Road" country and regional research center, and 105 provincial and ministerial scientific research bases.

The school currently has more than 3,000 faculty and staff, including 4 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5 dual-appointed academicians (professors), 1 academician of the International Academy of the History of Science, 1 academician of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, 23 selected candidates for the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", 12 winners of the National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund, 12 winners of the National Excellent Young Scientist Fund, 17 candidates for the National "Million Talents Project", 4 national-level teaching masters, 25 people in the New Century Excellent Talent Support Program of the Ministry of Education, and 6 "Young and Middle-aged Science and Technology Innovation Leaders" of the Ministry of Science and Technology. There are more than 25,000 full-time students, including more than 13,000 full-time undergraduates, more than 11,700 graduate students, and more than 600 international students.

The school has won the first and second prizes of the National Natural Science Award, the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award, the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the first and second prizes of the National Teaching Achievement Award, the China Patent Gold Award, and the first prize of the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) of Higher Education Institutions.

The school attaches great importance to foreign scientific and cultural exchanges, and has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 120 universities and research institutions in nearly 30 countries and regions, including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan. The Encyclopedia Britannica once listed Northwestern University as one of the world's famous universities.

(Updated: April 28, 2022)