NWU has 3 campuses: the Taibai Campus, the Taoyuan Campus and the Chang’an Campus. They cover a total area of approximately 400 acres, and comprise 23 schools and departments, plus a graduate school. In addition to 86 undergraduate degree programs, NWU has been authorized to confer doctoral degrees in 24 first-tier disciplines, master’s degrees in 37 first-tier disciplines, and professional programs in 14 categories. The four disciplines of Geology, Chemistry, Material Science and Engineering entered into top 1% by ESI.
Moreover, NWU houses 1 national key laboratory, 1 national research center for engineering & technology, 3 national bases for international scientific & technological cooperation, 2 Base for University Discipline Innovation & Foreign Experts Introduction Project (111 Project), 1 national demonstration base for innovative talent cultivation, 3 national & local joint engineering research centers, 1 provincial & ministerial joint cultivation base for national key laboratory, 7 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national virtual simulation experiment teaching center, 7 national bases for talent cultivation with a national base for the cultural quality education of college students, 39 provincial (ministerial) research centers for engineering & technology, and 17 provincial (ministerial) research centers for the humanities & social sciences.
NWU has about 2,800 members of faculty and staff, including 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 10 academicians (Professors) by courtesy，1 member of the International Academy of the History of Science, 20 professors of “the Cheung Kong Scholars Program”, 17 professors of “the Recruitment Program of Global Experts (the 1,000 Talent Plan) ”, 12 professors of “the National Special Support Program for High-level Personnel (the 10,000 Talent Plan)”，10 winners of China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists, 9 winners of China National Funds for Outstanding Young Scientists and 14 members of the National Key Talent Project. NWU also boasts 4 Nationally Distinguished Teachers, 21 members of “the Century Talent Plan” of the Ministry of Education and 5 members of Young Leaders in Scientific and Technological Innovation of Ministry of Science and Technology. Currently NWU has a student population of over 25,000, including 8,000 graduate students and 1,000 international students.
To date, NWU has won a number of major scientific research awards, including the National Natural Sciences Awards (the first and second prizes), the National Technological Invention Awards (the second prize), the National Scientific & Technological Progress Awards (the second prize), the Cheung Kong Scholars Achievement Awards (first prize) and the WIPO-SIPO Award for Chinese Outstanding Patented Invention (the golden prize).
NWU attaches great importance to international exchange and cooperation, and has established collaborative relations with more than 100 institutions of higher learning and research in more than 20 foreign countries, including USA, UK, France, Germany and Japan, as well as regions such as Hong Kong and Taiwan. To its credit, NWU is listed as one of the leading universities in the world by the Encyclopedia Britannica. More than 10,000 international students from over 50 countries and regions have studied at NWU since 1965.
