Directly affiliated to the Ministry of Education of the People’s  Republic of China, Chang'an University is one of the State 211 Project key  development universities jointly run by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of  Transport, Ministry of Land Resources, Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural  Construction and Shaanxi Provincial Government. It is concurrently one of the  key development universities on the State “985” Project advantage discipline  innovation platform. The university was officially established in the year 2000  by merging the former Xi'an Highway University, Xi'an Engineering Institute and  Northwest Institute of Construction Engineering, which were founded in the early  1950s. Chang’an University is located in the historical and cultural city of  Xi'an and covers an area of more than 3,755 mu (approximately 250 hectares).  The university comprises two teaching campuses and two practice bases. Through  its 60 years of development, it has evolved into an influential comprehensive  higher institution in China, with engineering as its main discipline focus,  combining engineering with sciences, and with multidisciplinary development in  economy, management and humanities. It has graduated more than 250,000 talents  of different levels, mainly in the fields of highway transportation, land  resources and environment and construction engineering.  

Chang’an University has 21 schools or departments, 5  national-level key disciplines, 26 provincial-level key disciplines, 8  post-doctoral research stations, 8 first-level and 52 second-level doctoral  programs, 26 first-level and 122 second-level master programs, 40 undergraduate  specialties as well as 8 fields of degree conferment of Mater of Public  Management and Master of Industrial and Commercial Management, and 16 enrollment  fields of masters in engineering. Furthermore, it is one of the national bases  of culture and quality education for college students, and the selection and  training base for reserved officers of the Chinese People's Armed Police. At  present, the enrollment of full-time students in Chang’an University exceeds  34,000, of whom nearly 10,000 are doctoral and mater postgraduates and  international students. The employment rate of the graduates stays stably above  93%.

The University presently boasts 2 national engineering  laboratories, 3 national 111 Projects, 8 key laboratories of the Ministry of  Education, 15 key laboratories of the Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Land  Recourse, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction, the key laboratories  of Shaanxi Province and engineering research centers, 5 key research center of  humanities and social sciences of Shaanxi Province. Its comprehensive automobile  testing ground is the only university-based testing field in  China.

Chang’an University now has 2,067 full-time teachers, including 3  academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 6 Yangtze River Scholar chair  professors, 1,145 full and associate professors, of whom 166 are doctoral  supervisors, and 755 are master supervisors, 5 national and provincial level  experts with outstanding contributions, and 80 teachers who have been enrolled  on the advanced talent list of the “National Talent Project of the New  Millennium” or have been entered in the advanced talent bank of Ministry of  Education, Ministry of Transportation and Shaanxi  Province.

Striving along the route of combining teaching, scientific  research and school-run industries, in recent years, the university has  accomplished more than 8,770 scientific research projects, including the  national “973” and “863” key projects, the National Natural Science Foundation  research projects. 20 projects were awarded national technology prizes including  the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. Over 200  projects were awarded ministerial and provincial level prizes. The university  has accomplished more than 380 education teaching research projects including  national planning project More than 50 projects were awarded the national and  provincial Teaching Achievement Award. Its annual scientific research funds sum  up to more than 700 million yuan.  

The  national level academic journals published by Chang’an University include China Journal of Highway and Transport,  Journal of Traffic and Transportation  Engineering, Journal of Architecture and  Civil Engineering, Journal of Earth  Sciences and Environment, Journal of  Chang’an University (Natural Science Edition), Journal of Chang’an University (Social  Science Edition), Road Machinery  & Construction Mechanization and Automobile Drivers. Among them, one is  national key development journals, two are national key construction journals,  three are Ei database entry journals, and five are Chinese core journals. China Journal of Highway and Transport  and Journal of Traffic and Transportation  Engineering are drlrcted into “100 Remarkable Academic Journals of China” in  a row.

The enrollment of international students  commenced in 1956. Till now, the university has turned out nearly 4,000  graduates of different kinds for nearly 70 countries such as the United States,  Germany, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Tanzania and Yemen. The number of  international students in university now is 713.  

The  university is also one of the first universities which have provided foreign aid  education and recruited students from regions like Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.  Following the trend of the internationalization of higher education of the  country, in recent year, the university has strengthened its exchange and  cooperation with over 120 higher education and scientific research institutions  from more than 20 countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom,  Russia, Ukraine, Japan and the South Korea. It has also joined the Sino-US ““1  +2 +1” Talent Nurturing Program and established an international universities  league with Rostov State Architectural University from Russia. The Chang’an  Foreign Language Training Centre of the State Administration of Foreign Experts  Affairs is located here. In recent year, the university has hosted and sponsored  a series of high-level international and national academic  conferences.

After years  of long exploration and practice, Chang’an University has gradually formed its  spirit of “self-improving constantly, seeking truth and being pragmatic,  striving in unity and pursuing excellence” and earned its high social  reputation. On this new historical stage, the university continues to adhere to  the socialist theory with Chinese characteristics and strive along the path of  connotation, characteristic and harmonious development so as to maximally  improve its talent cultivation quality and build the university into a  first-class tertiary institution with distinctive characteristics and remarkable  strength in China.

(Last Updated On September 24th, 2017)