From the perspective of comprehensive development, Xi University of Technology has more doctoral programs and some national key disciplines.

In addition, Xi 'an is better than Lanzhou. However, the more prominent key advantages of the two disciplines are different.

Xi University of Technology has national key disciplines such as hydrology and water resources, hydraulics and river dynamics, hydraulic structural engineering, water conservancy and hydropower engineering, port, coastal and offshore engineering. You can see that most of them are related to water. At the same time, provincial key disciplines include ideological and political education, mechanical manufacturing and automation, mechanical and electronic engineering, mechanical design and theory, vehicle engineering, material physics and chemistry, material science, material processing engineering, power electronics and power transmission, microelectronics and solid electronics, control theory and control engineering, geotechnical engineering, hydrology and water resources, hydraulics and river dynamics, hydraulic structural engineering, water conservancy and hydropower engineering, port and coastal engineering, agricultural soil and water engineering and so on.

Lanzhou University of Technology has provincial key disciplines including Marxist theory, mechanics, mechanical engineering, material science and engineering, metallurgical engineering, power engineering and engineering thermophysics, electrical engineering, information and communication engineering, control science and engineering, computer science and technology, civil engineering, chemical engineering and technology, software engineering, business administration and so on.