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Why Choose NPU

Xi’an and its culture deposits

Xi’an is one of China’s top four ancientcities; it is cradle of Chinese civilization and Chinese nation, and typicalcity of Chinese culture. Now, Xi’an is one of China’s top 7 central districts,it is city which has developed technology and strong strength of innovation. Thecity’s comprehensive technical power ranked at top among other cities in China.


Dominance

Northeastern Polytechnical University liesin the ancient city Xian, it is the only one research, comprehensive, andopen university featuring both the education and scientific research inengineering of aviation, spaceflight and navigation.


Impressive education and teaching achievements

The university set up 3 national experimentalteaching demonstration centers, 3 national talent cultivation mode innovationexperimental districts,13 national characteristic specialties, 9 national defense keydisciplines, 4 national defense special disciplines, 16 Shanxi province’s brandspecialties; 27 national fine courses, 4 national experimental bilingual teachingcourses; 158 teaching materials of the university are in national and MIIT teachingmaterials construction plan, 140 projects of the university are listed in Chinanational universities students’ innovative experimental plan.


Fruitful scientific research results

The university undertakes over 9000scientific research projects, including national key scientific and technicalprojects, national defense fundamental research plan, etc. On the militaryparade of 60th anniversary of China, the 3 patterns of aerial vehicle parade’sunmanned planes unveiled for the first time were developed by our university. Inaddition, the research fund that our university is offered increased from 2006year’s 915 million to 2011 year’s 1.91 billion year by year, ranking at the topof all universities in China.


Elites brought up by our university

Our university cultivated out over 1550thousand talents for national defense technology and national economicconstruction, among which there were over 3,800 doctorate graduates, 24,700master’s graduates. We cultivate out first doctors of China’s six subjects, thereare 34 doctors and teachers obtained fund support from German HumboldtFoundation.


Rapid international cooperation development

Our university established cooperation withAmerican, British, French, Russian, Japanese and so over 10 counties and areas’hundreds of universities, corporations and research institutes. As one of the15 Chinese high-level universities, our university jointly established “ASRTU”with 15 elite universities in Russia, and successively joined “China-FinlandUniversity Union”, “China-Spain University Union” and “China- White RussianUniversity Union”. Our university is member of two of European Erasmus Mundusprograms and developed Sino-French cooperative education program with French INSA-Lyon.Our university has two “national higher educational institute disciplineinnovation and talent introduction bases” and one “international education basefor national software talent”, and founded 31 Sino-foreign joint researchinstitutions. Our university also invited over 150 famous foreign experts,scholars and professors, including Nobel winners Zhengdao Li and Prof. HaroldKroto as honor professor or visiting professors.


Employment

Employmentof aviation, spaceflight and navigation is close to 100%.