Northwestern Polytechnical University is a comprehensive university focusing on engineering. Its ace majors include aircraft design and engineering, underwater acoustic engineering, materials science and engineering, aircraft manufacturing engineering, mechanical design and manufacturing and its automation, MEMS engineering, industrial design, aircraft power engineering, detection, guidance and control technology, automation and so on. These majors are all characteristic majors of the school, among which aircraft design and engineering, underwater acoustic engineering, material science and engineering are national characteristic majors.