Introduction

Northwestern Polytechnical University is China’s only research-oriented, multi-disciplinary, and international university of science and technology, which simultaneously excels at Aeronautics, Astronautics, and Marine Engineering. The University emphasizes science and technology, while harmoniously developing the fields of management, humanities, economics, and law.

The NPU campus covers an area of 2,917 mu. The University offers 53 undergraduate programs, 101 graduate programs, 57 doctoral programs and ten postdoctoral research stations. It also has the authority to confer the MBA and Master of Engineering Degrees.

Currently, NPU has 1430 full and associate professors and senior engineers, among whom there are 15 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chinese Academy of Science, five foreign academicians, 11 Yangtze Rive Scholars and 320 Ph.D. advisors.

Since its foundation, NPU has trained more than 100,000 students including 2,000 Ph.D. and 13,400 Master students. Among them, there are the country’s first Ph.D. students in six different disciplines, and the first test pilots with a Master Degree. 34 Ph.D. students and teachers of the University have become the research fellows of Alexander Humboldt, and six NPU graduates are the recipients of the Chinese Ten Outstanding Youths titles.

NPU has become an important center for scientific innovation. It has ten state key disciplines, 13 first-class disciplines with the authority of conferring doctoral degree, ten national key laboratories and national specialized laboratories, ten provincial and ministerial key laboratories and nine provincial engineering research centres. Scientific research is one of the great strengths of NPU. The main indexes of its research are among the top Chinese universities, and the University has become a vital part of the scientific research “National Team”. The University has successfully undertaken 4163 research projects during the “Tenth Five-year Plan” (2001-2005).

(Source: Northwestern Polytechnical University)