The archaeology major of Northwest University is one of the earliest archaeology majors established in China universities.

The unique underground and aboveground cultural relics resources in Shaanxi and Northwest China, as well as a large number of cultural relics collected by the school, are the solid foundation for teaching and scientific research of this major.

Professional education attaches great importance to the combination of basic theoretical knowledge and practical work ability, and the combination of classroom teaching in school and field archaeological practice.

The purpose is to cultivate professionals with innovative research, comprehensive cross-cutting or professional skills, which can not only meet the individual's desire for further study, but also better meet the needs of departments such as cultural relics archaeological research, museums and cultural relics administration.

The archaeological research of Northwest University began from 65438 to 0938 with the investigation and excavation of Zhang Gui's tomb by the Archaeological Group of the History Department of Northwest United University. After the founding of New China, following the general layout of national cultural relics, Northwest University established the second major of archaeology in China on 1956.

After more than 60 years of development, the School of Cultural Heritage of Northwest University has become a first-class archaeological discipline in China with comprehensive professional settings, clear objectives, strong academic team, perfect scientific research conditions and complete personnel training system, and is an important force in cultural relics personnel training and scientific research in China.

The archaeological discipline of Northwest University has formed a "trinity" discipline system (a cognitive system with archaeological research as its value, a preservation system with cultural relics protection technology as its value, and a realization system with cultural heritage management as its value) at the earliest time in China, which is an important force for talent cultivation and scientific research in China's cultural heritage cause.

Combined with geographical advantages, it has formed research characteristics focusing on the archaeology and cultural heritage protection of Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang and Silk Road, and has obvious disciplinary advantages and distinctive characteristics in the fields of prehistoric culture research in northwest China, early culture research in Zhou and Qin dynasties, ancient nomadic culture research, comprehensive research on the Great Wall in past dynasties, Buddhist archaeology research, scientific and technological archaeology research, cultural relics analysis, earth site protection and other key technologies of cultural relics protection, cultural heritage management and planning research on large sites protection.

The college has a strong faculty, with 47 full-time teachers, with full-time senior titles 14 and deputy senior titles 12. Cultural experts and "four groups" talents 1 person, leading talents in philosophy and social sciences of the national "Ten Thousand Talents Program", talents from Shaanxi Province 1 person, and 3 provincial-level teaching masters. Teachers with doctoral degrees account for 9 1% of the total number of teachers. Many achievements have won national and provincial excellent teaching achievement awards.

The college has three departments: archaeology, cultural relics protection technology and cultural heritage management, and offers three undergraduate majors: archaeology, cultural relics protection technology, cultural relics and museum science.

Archaeology has doctoral and master's authorization points, and cultural relics and museums have postdoctoral research stations and master's authorization points. It has 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center (cultural heritage protection technology experimental teaching center), 1 national specialty (archaeology), 1 provincial postgraduate joint training demonstration workstation (jointly built with Shaanxi Archaeological Research Institute), 1 provincial talent training mode innovation zone (archaeology) and 2 Shaanxi. There are 2 specialty majors in Shaanxi Province (archaeology and cultural relics protection), 2 provincial teaching teams (archaeology and prehistoric archaeology), 2 national quality resources * * * courses, 1 national quality video open course, 3 quality resources * * * courses in Shaanxi Province and 4 quality courses in Northwest University.