Adult education in Xi 'an University of Science and Technology was founded in 1960, and was forced to stop during the Cultural Revolution. 1980 classes resumed and the correspondence department of Xi 'an Mining Institute was established. 1994 the adult education college was established on the basis of the original correspondence department, and in 2005 it was renamed the continuing education college of Xi 'an University of Science and Technology. With the college's name change, its functional business has expanded from single adult education in the past to adult education, all kinds of training, and general higher education for individual examination enrollment in coal mine system. College is not only an independent school-running entity, but also a full-time management institution of adult education in the whole school. It is also an important window for school publicity. At present, there are 4 departments, with administrators 19, adult education students 10000, and nearly 800 students enrolled in single examination.

Adult education in Xi 'an University of Science and Technology always adheres to the purpose of serving economic construction and social development, highlights the direction of serving adult learning, and always grasps the direction of providing learning opportunities for on-the-job employees. In the field of enrollment, it broke through the single coal industry in the past, vigorously extended and opened up the market, and expanded into the fields of power system, finance, petrochemical and so on. , formed a multi-specification, multi-level, amateur, full-time training, continuing education after university, etc. At present, there are more than 20 undergraduate majors in mining engineering, mechanical and electronic engineering, geological engineering, surveying and mapping engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering and its automation, exploration technology and engineering, electronic information engineering, computer science and technology, accounting, business administration, environmental engineering, industrial design, English, tourism management, and more than 30 majors in coal mining technology, mechatronics, industrial and civil architecture. Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Chongqing, Shaanxi and other provinces have successively established 3 1 correspondence stations.

The College of Continuing Education adheres to the principles of facing the society, relying on the market, school-enterprise cooperation and co-construction, sets the required majors according to the different needs of enterprises, and implements order-based training. It has jointly organized coal mining, mining electromechanical and electrical automation with Shendong Company, Shaanxi Mining Bureau, Shen Yu Mining Bureau, Qinghai Western Mining Company, Yaojie Mining Bureau, Jingyuan Mining Bureau, Xinjiang Geology and Mineral System, Shenmu Coal Bureau, Fugu Coal Bureau, China Coal Nanliang Mining Company, Sichuan Huayingshan Mining Bureau, Furong Mining Bureau and Luneng Shaanxi Fugu Energy Company. To cultivate talents in short supply for enterprises.

Since the school held adult education, it has trained nearly 20,000 graduates, most of whom have become technical backbones and leading cadres of their enterprises. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 200 people have served as mine-level leading cadres, and more than 20 of them have served as bureau-level leaders. Jing, a 66-grade correspondence graduate of our school, is currently the general manager of China Coal Group. Shen Hao, who graduated from the 85th electrical automation undergraduate course, started as a factory director, director and director at the grass-roots level, and is now the chairman of Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group, the largest enterprise in Shaanxi. Adult education graduates' solid work and efforts for economic construction have won wide praise from units and all walks of life.