National ranking: 52, star rating: five stars, running level: domestic first-class university, ranking fifth in this province.

Northwest University ranked 45th in 202 1, 57th in 2020 and 45th in 20 19.

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 a national "double-class" construction university, the Ministry of Education and the "2 1 1 project" construction university in Shaanxi Province.

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 Science and Technology Progress Award, the first and second prizes of the National Teaching Achievement Award, the China Patent Gold Award, and the first prize of the Outstanding Achievement Award (humanities and social sciences) in scientific research in colleges and universities.

The school attaches great importance to foreign scientific and cultural exchanges, and has established friendly and cooperative relations with more than 20 universities and scientific research institutions in nearly 30 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.