Chang'an University is directly under the Ministry of Education. It is a national "211 Project" key construction university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government, and the national "985 Project Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" To build a university, a national world-class discipline construction university. In 2000, it was formed by the merger of the former Xi'an Highway Jiaotong University, Xi'an Institute of Engineering, and Northwest Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, which were founded in the early 1950s. The school is located in the historical and cultural city of Xi’an. It currently has two campuses in the main campus and Weishui, and two teaching practice bases in Taibai Mountain and Liangshan. The campus covers an area of 3745 acres. The main campus of the school is adjacent to Xi'an Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and the Weishui campus is located in the national-level Xi'an Economic and Technological Development Zone. Over the past 60 years, Chang'an University has gradually developed into a university with a focus on engineering, a combination of science and engineering, a coordinated development of humanities and social sciences and basic disciplines, with the training of professionals in highway transportation, land and resources, and urban and rural construction as its school-running characteristics. It has a certain influence at home and abroad. Higher education institutions have trained more than 250,000 graduates of various types for the country.
The school has 21 teaching colleges (departments), 5 national key disciplines, 26 ministerial and provincial key disciplines, 8 post-doctoral research stations, 9 first-level discipline doctoral programs, and 34 first-level discipline master programs. There are 40 undergraduate professional categories, 10 master's professional degree authorization categories, and 16 engineering master's enrollment fields. It is the national college student cultural quality education base and the Chinese People's Armed Police Force reserve police officer selection and training base. There are more than 33,000 full-time students, including more than 9,000 doctoral, master and foreign students.
The school has 2 national engineering laboratories, 4 colleges and universities subject innovation and intelligence introduction bases, 8 key laboratories and engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, 15 key laboratories of the Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Land and Resources, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and Key Shaanxi Province Laboratory and engineering technology research center, 5 key research bases of humanities and social sciences in Shaanxi Province. It has the world's only comprehensive automobile testing ground for universities.
The school has 2027 full-time teachers, including 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 6 Yangtze River Scholars, more than 1,100 professors and associate professors, 166 doctoral tutors, and 755 master tutors; 5 provincial and ministerial-level experts with outstanding contributions. More than 80 people have been selected as national candidates for the New Century Talent Project and various high-level talent programs such as the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Transport, and Shaanxi Province.
The school adheres to the combination of production, teaching and research. In recent years, it has undertaken more than 8,770 scientific research projects including the national 973, 863 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. It has won national scientific and technological awards including the first prize of national scientific and technological progress. 20 items, 28 provincial and ministerial first prizes, more than 200 other provincial and ministerial awards; undertook more than 380 various education and teaching research projects including national planning projects, and won 50 national and provincial teaching achievement awards More items. The annual scientific research funding exceeds 700 million yuan.
The school edited and published "Journal of China Highway", "Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering", "Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English)", "Journal of Building Science and Engineering", "Journal of Earth Sciences and Environment", "Journal of Chang'an University (Natural Science Edition)", and "Chang'an University" Journal (Social Science Edition)" and "Road Machinery and Construction Mechanization" and other 8 academic journals, of which one is the top 100 national newspapers, two are national key construction journals, two are journals included in the Ei database, and five are in Chinese Core journal. "Chinese Journal of Highway and Transportation Engineering" and "Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering" were successively selected as one of 100 outstanding Chinese academic journals.
The school began to recruit foreign students in 1956, and has successively trained more than 4,000 international students from more than 70 countries and regions, including the United States, Germany, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Tanzania, Yemen, and more than 800 international students of various types. The school is one of the first universities in my country to undertake foreign aid education and to recruit students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In recent years, the school has adapted to the development trend of the internationalization of higher education, and has increased the intensity of foreign exchanges and cooperation. It has successively cooperated with more than 100 colleges and universities and scientific research in more than 20 countries and regions including the United States, Britain, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, and South Korea. The institution has established inter-school cooperation, carried out various forms of exchanges and cooperation such as teacher visits, student joint training, cooperative scientific research, and joint construction of laboratories, and hosted a series of high-level international and domestic academic conferences.
After years of school-running practice, the school has established the school-running philosophy of "education-oriented, quality first, and pursuit of excellence" and has won a good social reputation. Facing the new historical journey, the school insists on holding high the great banner of the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics, fully implementing the party's educational policy, taking morality and building people as the foundation, adhering to the school motto of "Resolute, ethical, and innovative", and adhere to the "innovative development". , Connotation development, characteristic development”, in accordance with the discipline layout of “prominent engineering advantages, solid science foundation, and prosperity of liberal arts, comprehensive reforms will be deepened in an all-round way, the quality of talent training and the level of teaching and research will be improved, and the construction of first-class disciplines will be solidly promoted and continuously improved. The school's core competitiveness and comprehensive strength, comprehensively promote the construction of an internationally renowned research university with distinctive characteristics, and make new and greater contributions to the realization of the "Chinese Dream" of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!