Xi University of Architecture and Technology is neither 985 nor 2 1 1. Official website of Xi University of Architecture and Technology shows that Xi University of Architecture and Technology is neither 985 nor 2 1 1. Xi University of Architecture and Technology, referred to as Xi Jian University and Xi Jian University for short, was co-founded by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Education and the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government. It is one of the "Old Eight Schools of Architecture", a key university directly under the former Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, and a national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in the Midwest" and "Key Discipline Project with Characteristics".