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, 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.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%.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, Its annual scientific research funds sum up to more than 700 millionyuan.
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.
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.
