The address of Taibai Campus is No.229 Taibai North Road, the address of Taoyuan Campus is No.4 Angaoxin Road 155, and the address of Chang 'an Campus is Xuefu Avenue 1 of Guodu Education Science and Technology Industrial Park.
Northwest University was founded in 1902 Shaanxi University Hall and Shi Jing University Hall. 19 12 is called Northwest University. 1923 changed to National Northwest University. 1937, the National Peking University, Beiping Normal University, Beiyang Institute of Technology and Beiping Research Institute, which moved westward to Shaanxi, formed the National xi 'an Temporary University. 1938 was renamed as National Northwest United University, and 1939 was renamed as National Northwest University.
After the founding of New China, it is a comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education. 1950 changed its name to Northwest University. 1958 transferred to the director of Shaanxi province. 1978 was identified as a national key university. Now it is the first batch of national "world-class discipline construction universities", the national "2 1 1 project" construction universities, and the Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Province jointly build universities.
Northwest University has formed a school-running philosophy of "carrying forward the national spirit, integrating the world's thoughts and shouldering the heavy responsibility of building the northwest", gathered many famous teachers, produced a number of high-level academic achievements, trained a large number of outstanding talents who can serve the world, and enjoyed a good academic reputation and social prestige. Known as "the mother of petroleum talents in China", "the cradle of economists" and "the cradle of writers".
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At present, the school has 24 first-level disciplines authorized by doctor's degree, 37 first-level disciplines authorized by master's degree, and 14 professional degree authorization categories. At present, there are 1 national key disciplines (covering 5 two disciplines), 4 two disciplines national key disciplines and 1 national key disciplines (training), and 22 post-doctoral research stations.
The school has 1 national key laboratory, 1 national engineering technology research center, 3 national international scientific and technological cooperation bases, 2 academic innovation and intelligence introduction program bases in colleges and universities (referred to as "1/plan"),1national innovative talent training demonstration base and 3 national and local joint engineering research centers.
There are 25,467 full-time students, including full-time undergraduate students 13526, graduate students/7592 and international students 1036.
The school has successively 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 Scientific and Technological Progress Award, the first prize of the "Changjiang Scholar" achievement award, the China Patent Gold Award and other major scientific and technological awards.
The school attaches great importance to foreign scientific and cultural exchanges, and has established friendly and cooperative relations with more than 100 universities and scientific research institutions in more than 20 countries and regions such as the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Japan. The Encyclopedia Britannica once listed Northwest University as one of the world famous universities.
People's Daily Online-Northwest University added 4 undergraduate majors.