Northwest University is recognized as one of the key comprehensive
universities in China. Jointly administered by the Ministry of Education
and the Shaanxi provincial government, it has been selected to be one
of the State “211 Project” universities with well-qualified faculties
and rich teaching resources. NWU consists of three campuses, namely
Chang’an Campus, Taibai Campus and Taoyuan Campus. And it comprises 21
departments and 1 graduate school, with 1 national key discipline
(covering 5 provincial disciplines) and 4 provincial key disciplines. It
currently offers 75 undergraduate programs and 16 professional Master’s
programs, plus Master’s programs in 39 primary disciplines. It is also
entitled to offer an MA program to teachers already serving in
institutions of higher learning. 19 of its primary disciplines offer PhD
programs and there are 21 post-doctoral programs. Moreover, NWU houses a
national key laboratory and an incubator for national key laboratories
which is jointly administered by the Ministry of Education and the
Shaanxi provincial government. There is a national base for the quality
education of college students, a national research center of engineering
& technology, a national base for international technological
cooperation, and 25 provincial key laboratories, engineering﹠technology
centers, and key research bases for humanities and social sciences. It
has 4 national experimental teaching demonstration centers and 7
national bases for talent cultivation.
Adult Education College is the predecessor of the NWU Vocational
Technical Institute which changes its name in July 2008. With rich
teaching resources, the institute actively seeks the educational model,
and forms a multiform, multilevel and multi-channel educational system.
During the teaching practice, the institute insists “survives on
quality, develops with characteristic” as the school running theory, and
in accordance with the education policy “adapt to the demand, give play
to advantages, strengthen management, guarantee the quality”，actively
adapts the need of local economic and social development, reforms the
teaching content, regulates the school behavior, expands the education
space, enriches the school-running forms to ensure the high-quality of
the talent. Through unremitting efforts, the institute becomes one of
the first 50 education demonstration base construction project units in
2001; officially established by Shaanxi province human resources and
social security Office as "Shaanxi province professional skills talents
training base" in 2011; in addition, the construction scheme of
northwest university online distance education college has passed and is
underway in the implementation; the training program with Yanchang
Petroleum Group, Changqing Petroleum group and Shaanxi Coal Cooperation
is carried out smoothly. The institute has obtained the remarkable
achievement for many years, and won a good social reputation. It is
awarded as the "outstanding school" and "excellent Adult Education
College” by Shaanxi province education department.
At present, the institute will further open the mind, reform and
innovation, to make our school contribute much greatly to the
development of local economy.
