Northwestern Polytechnical University, referred to as "Xigong University", is located in Xi 'an, the ancient capital. It is a research-oriented, multidisciplinary and open national key university directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China, featuring aviation, aerospace and navigation engineering, focusing on engineering and management, and coordinating the development of management, literature, economics and law. It is one of the key universities under the National "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project", and has been selected into "201Plan", "1Plan" and "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan".

The school can be traced back to the National Beiyang Institute of Technology, the National Institute of Technology of Beiping University, the National Institute of Technology of Northeastern University and the National Northwest Institute of Technology of Jiaozuo Institute of Technology, which was established in Hanzhong on 1938. 1946, National Northwest Institute of Technology moved to Xianyang. 1950 was renamed Northwest Institute of Technology. 1957 10, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Xi 'an Aviation College merged to form Northwestern Polytechnical University. 1960, the school was identified as a national key university by the State Council; 1February, 970, the Department of Aeronautical Engineering of Harbin Institute of Technology merged as a whole, and today's Northwestern Polytechnical University has begun to take shape.

As of February 20 14, there were 26,408 full-time students in the school, including 3,348 full-time doctoral students, 7,855 full-time master students, 4,424 undergraduate students and 78 international students.