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Established in 1992, Xi’an University of Foreign Affairs is an international, applied, comprehensive, high-level private non-profit university with undergraduate education as its mainstay.
The school is located in Xi’an High-tech Development Zone, covering an area of 1.264 million square meters, with a building area of 660,000 square meters; the campus has lakes and mountains, and the building combines Chinese and Western architecture. The school offers 42 undergraduate majors and 27 higher vocational majors, covering 8 disciplines in economics, management, literature, medicine, engineering, art, agriculture, and education. , The discipline and professional system of the coordinated development of engineering, art, agriculture, and education, and the three unique characteristics of innovation and entrepreneurship education, international education, and moral education. The school has 8 secondary colleges: business school, humanities and arts college, medical school, engineering college, international cooperation college, entrepreneurship college, Qifang Academy, and continuing education college, which mainly train for economic and trade logistics, cultural media, medical care, and smart manufacturing. Applied talents in other industries. There are more than 21,000 students and 1,700 faculty members.
Management System
The school continues to reform and innovate its governance system, and establishes and perfects a modern private university system with Chinese characteristics of "board of directors, party committee supervision, president responsibility, professors' academic affairs, democratic management, and management of the school according to law". The first is to further strengthen the principle of public welfare, non-profit, and no return, and establish the sponsor’s relative avoidance system; the second is to continuously improve the cadre appointment system, and take the lead in implementing the "Global Open Recruitment" principals across the country. The cadre recruitment adopts "in-school Various forms of talent selection and appointment systems such as "competition", "recommendation by the recruitment committee" and "appointment by the board of directors, school party committee, and joint meeting of the school council"; the third is the implementation of the "large department system" and the establishment of the teaching and research department and student work The four working departments of the Ministry, the Administration Department and the Security Department de-administrate and strengthen services; the fourth is to establish a “graduate school system”, the management focus will be shifted, the power and responsibility will be matched, and the integration and exchange of disciplines will be promoted to better play the role of the comprehensive university. Advantage.
student development
The school is based on the establishment of morality, constantly innovating the talent training model, advocating successful experience, emphasizing the development of personality, focusing on characteristic education, and releasing the potential of students. In professional teaching, the school takes the lead in implementing the credit system in similar institutions, which not only gives students the opportunity to choose and plan their studies and gain recognition, but also promotes continuous optimization of the curriculum system and continuous improvement of teacher skills; in terms of student academic planning, the school implements The "3+1" talent training model and the elementary school term system provide professional education guidance and services for students' different desires for employment, postgraduate entrance examinations, entrepreneurship, and going abroad to provide support for students' independent choice; in practical teaching, the school implements The connection between majors and industries allows students to have professional practical abilities and more practical experience during school; the school attaches great importance to innovation in education and teaching methods, actively promotes online courses, flipped classrooms, seminar-style and interactive teaching, and focuses on cultivating students Critical and creative thinking will also closely integrate teaching and education, requiring teachers to integrate moral education into classroom education, and guide students to shape a noble character through precepts and deeds.
The school pioneered the student management education model of "college + academy", extending education and teaching activities to student apartments, and building a "full-staff, full-process, all-round" education model that integrates teaching, education, and management. Each college has its own unique colleges, and implements various types of tutors stationed in colleges to play their respective roles in student education and form a joint force: academic tutors enter the college to help students plan their academic and career development; Zhengmeng tutors enter the college to guide Students establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values; life tutors enter the academy to help students solve practical problems and guide students to develop good behavior habits. The academy also focuses on cultivating students' self-management, self-education, and self-service abilities, and extensively conducts various discipline competitions to enhance students' professional and innovative abilities.
The school pays attention to the "second classroom" education led by the party and the student union, and guides students to actively carry out technological innovation, social practice, voluntary service, party building and team building and campus cultural activities. The school has established more than 100 student associations to provide a platform for students to "exhibit their talents and show themselves" to cultivate and improve students' organizational coordination and communication and cooperation capabilities, social participation and interaction capabilities, and social adaptation and growth capabilities.
acedemic research
The school takes "teaching as the center and scientific research as the forerunner", and conducts applied research on the development of China's private education, teaching reform, discipline construction, and local economic development. In the past three years, the number of scientific research projects at the provincial level and above and the number of papers published in SCI, SSCI, EI, and core journals have all ranked among the top universities in the same category, and the number of patent authorizations ranked 15th in Shaanxi Province. The private education research center has won a series of national, provincial and municipal honorary titles and awards such as the "National Education System Advanced Collective" of the Ministry of Education. Among them, it was awarded the title of National Excellent Research Institution by the China Higher Education Association 4 times; it has undertaken the national, provincial and ministerial levels. He has completed more than 70 projects and completed more than 40 national, provincial and municipal government proposals, research and consulting reports; published 20 books such as "Thinking and Practice of Private Education in China"; organized 9 international forums and national academic conferences.
International School
The school has always adhered to international education. Chairman Huang Teng put forward the educational concept of "education without borders" as early as the beginning of the school. As the initiator of the "Higher Education International Development Alliance", the school has extensively participated in international academic exchanges and attracted many international political and business elites and well-known scholars to visit the school. As the first private university in Shaanxi Province to be approved to carry out international cooperative education and education for international students, the school has established various forms of cooperation and exchanges with more than 100 well-known universities in the United Kingdom, Canada, Hungary, South Korea, Japan, Croatia and other countries. International cooperation programs such as preparatory classes, Sino-French, Sino-Canada, Sino-Thailand, Sino-Korea, Sino-Malaysian international classes, etc., have unique and fast channels for students to study abroad. Hundreds of international students from all over the world came to the school to study. The students from Wuzhou Continuum worked together to form a distinctive international school-running feature.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education
Innovation and entrepreneurship education is the school’s distinctive brand. As early as 2006, the school took the lead in offering entrepreneurship education courses in the country. In 2009, it launched comprehensive entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurship education is served by a "dual-teacher" entrepreneurial instructor team composed of theoretical tutors and well-known entrepreneurs in the school, including theoretical teaching, practical training, skills training, "three modules" and "inclusive education, ignite passion; focus on training and incubation Help; the road to success, lifelong attention" "three levels". The school also has an entrepreneurial building, an entrepreneurial practice square, an entrepreneurial block, an entrepreneurial training park, and an entrepreneurial incubator for college students, and an entrepreneurial fund has been established. These measures have enabled the school to form a "three-level + complete incubation chain" entrepreneurial education model that is leading the country's universities, and has cultivated a group of successful entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurial rate of previous graduates has doubled and exceeded the national average. Graduates' enthusiasm for entrepreneurship has also effectively promoted employment, and has been rated as "the advanced collective of employment in the province" for two consecutive terms. In 2014, the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security approved the school as the "University Student Entrepreneurship Incubation Base" and "University Student Entrepreneurship Training Base" in the province. In 2016, the School of Entrepreneurship was rated as the "Pilot College for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform in Higher Education Institutions in Shaanxi Province", the school was rated as "National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration School", and the first batch of "National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Model Experience Colleges" by the Ministry of Education in the same year "One of the top fifty, became the first batch of selected colleges and universities in Northwest China. In 2017, the school's business school was rated as the "Pilot College for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform in Higher Education Institutions in Shaanxi Province", and the school was rated as "the first batch of innovation and entrepreneurship education reform demonstration universities in Shaanxi Province". It is the only private university selected among 16 universities. In the same year, the school was rated as "National Typical Experience College for Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform".
University culture
The school attaches great importance to the construction of university culture, integrates the legend of "fish into a dragon" in its location and the Chinese nation's good wishes of "seeking a child to become a dragon" into the school ideals, establishes the school motto of "diversified integration, self-reliance and innovation", and establishes "love your job and work with gratitude." The school spirit of dedication, the teaching style of “student-oriented, morality first”, and the style of study of “developing individuality and focusing on cultivation” have formed a university culture centered on the spirit of “fishing dragons”. "Love and dedication, gratitude and dedication" has become the basic principle and common inspiration of all teachers and students.