Air Force Engineering University, referred to as "Air Force Engineering University", is an advanced military academy under the leadership of the Central Military Commission and the Party Committee of the Air Force. It is a comprehensive national key university integrating engineering, literature, management, science, law and military. It is one of the five comprehensive universities and open colleges that the whole army focuses on building. It is also one of the key institutions of the Army's "2 1 10 Project" and is supported by the Air Force and the Army.
Air Force Engineering University undertakes the sacred mission of training high-level talents in the fields of aerospace and weapon equipment system construction for the whole army, is the cradle of high-quality new military talents, is the key construction institution of the "2 1 10 Project" of the army, and is the key institution for training military graduate students. The predecessor of the school is the Air Force Technical College 1953, which was established in May. After the development of Air Force Engineering College, Xi 'an Air Force Academy and Xi 'an Air Force Engineering University, it was renamed Air Force Engineering University on 1986.
Air Force Engineering University involves the integration of national defense and civil technology, national defense engineering and military industry, and currently has five first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, five post-doctoral research stations and 18 first-level discipline master degree authorization points; In the national "double first-class" discipline construction, seven disciplines, including operational command, military equipment, aerospace science and technology, ordnance science and technology, military command, military training, management science and engineering, are included in the construction scope; It has 22 national and provincial key laboratories and more than 4,700 sets of large-scale instruments and equipment, which plays an important role in the whole country and the whole army.
Therefore, graduates of Air Force Engineering University do not become officers directly, but need to go through certain selection and assessment procedures to become officers.