Northwestern Polytechnical University is the top university directly under the central government and one of the seven universities directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The school covers an area of 5 100 mu (3.4 million square meters) and is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Friendship Campus covers an area of 1.200 mu, and Chang 'an Campus covers an area of 3,900 mu. 1960 was designated as a national key university by the State Council and one of the 15 key universities in the State Council, and the first batch entered the national "2 1 1 project" study. The school has Basic Research Institute, National Defense Research Institute, Northwest Industrial Technology Research Institute and the largest UAV R&D base in China. The school has become an important base for China's high-level personnel training, scientific research and technological innovation, and has made great contributions to China's national defense science and technology and national economic construction.