Chang'an University
14 Nov 2008
Directly under the administration of Ministry of Education, Chang'an University accepts the students with Chinese government scholarship, and is also one of the earliest universities in western Chinarecruiting the overseas students. It was merged by the former Xi'an Highway University, Xi'an Engineering Institute and Northwest Institute of Construction Engineering in April, 2000. It was approved by the state to be one of the universities funded by project 211, a national program to promote Chinese higher education. With Chinese language as the main teaching language, Chang'an University covers many subjects such as engineering, science, economics, management, 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 while country. Currently, Chang'an University has more than 80 overseas students coming from 14 nations and regions, including two are serving as ministers, one is an embassy minister in China. Chang'an University has a qualify teaching staff and has assembled a large number of well-known experts and scholars, including two academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering, guest professors of the "Cheung Kong Scholars" and the tutors of Doctor, Master degree. At present, the university has more than 40, 000 undergraduate and junior college students, and more than 3, 000 postgraduates.
Chang'an University has perfect teaching facilities and advanced research equipments. It owns 20 key subjects and labrotories of national, provincial and ministry level. It has the sole high-speed automobile testing ring road, the comprehensive testing site, the top-grade gymnasium and playground.
Programs for International Students
Focusing on engineering, Chang'an University has a balanced combination of science and engineering and corresponding development of humanities. It has philosophy, law, science, economics, engineering and management. It wons the advantageous subjects including road and railroad engineering, geology engineering, the machine designs and theories, transportations planning and management, transportation tool application engineering, etc. At present, the university has 16 institutes and 1 teaching department, 2 mobile stations for postdoctoral research programs, 2 first-class disciplines postdoctoral degree conferring posts, 22 second-class discipline postdoctoral degree conferring posts, 39 doctor's degree conferring posts, 83 master's degree conferring posts, and 75 undergraduate majors or specialities. It provides various classes of Chinese language training and advanced study courses for the overseas students with different levels. For details, please browse the website: http://ins.chd.edu.cn.