Changan University

Directly under the administration of Ministry of Education, Chang’an University is one of the first universities with “First-Class Discipline”, 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.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 22 schools , including a international education school. Chang'an University covers many subjects such as engineering, science, economics, humanities, law, liberal arts and foreign languages. Highway transportation, land resources and environment, and construction engineering are its features, among which, the highway transportation course takes the leading position in the whole country. 

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 enrollment of international students commenced in 1956. Till now, the university has turned out nearly 4,000 graduates of different kinds for nearly101 nations such as the United States, Germany, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Tanzania and Yemen. At the same time, the school provides various classes of Chinese language training and advanced study courses for the overseas students with different levels.

Chang'an University has 2100 full-time teaching staff and has assembled a large number of well-known experts and scholars, including 3 academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1academicians of Chinese Academy of Science.

Chang’an University is located in Xi’an, called Chang’an in the past, is a Chinese city with the longest capital history. The university has two teaching campuses and two practice bases, with perfect teaching facilities, research equipments and living facilities.