About Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) is a key university under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education of China and is one of the oldest universitiesin China. The predecessor of Xi'an Jiaotong University was Nanyang College, which was founded in 1896 in Shanghai and renamed Jiaotong University in 1921. In 1956, the main part of Jiaotong University was relocated to Xi'an according to the decision of the State Council, and this relocated part of JiaotongUniversity was later officially renamed Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1959. In 2000, approved by the State Council, the former Xi'an Medical University and former Shaanxi Institute of Finance and Economics were merged with Xi'an Jiaotong University. XJTU, as one of the first batch of the universities in China, was supported by the central Government at the seventh and eighth five-year plan, as well as China's “Project 211” and “Project 985” to develop into a world-class university. Now, Xi’an Jiaotong University is on the List of World-class Universities and First-class Disciplines (abbreviated as “Double First-class”) released in 2017 by the Ministry of Education of China, as a Double First-class universityin Category A, which means that the government will support it financially to develop into a world-class university, and its eight disciplines into the first-class level in the world.
Currently, XJTU is a comprehensive research university with 10 major categories of disciplines: science, engineering, medicine, economics, management, humanities, law, philosophy, education and art, and 27 schools, 9 university colleges for undergraduates and 19 affiliated teaching hospitals. The University has a faculty and staff of 5,982 people including 3,072 full-time teachers, of whom 35 are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and/or the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 6 Nationally Distinguished Teachers, 112 scholars of National Thousand Talents, 92 distinguished professors on Chang Jiang Scholars Program and other programs, 40 recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 23 National Experts with Outstanding Contributions, 28 scholars who are enlisted in the National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project and the New Century National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents Project, 29 scholars who won the support as Innovation Team leaders, 234 scholars who won the Support Program for New Century Excellent Talents administered by the Ministry of Education, and 511 experts who have made outstanding contributions to the nation and receivethe State Council Special Allowance.
XJTU now has 38,103 full-time students, including 18,919 postgraduates.The university offers 82 undergraduate majors, and there are 31 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctorate degrees, and there are 45 first-level disciplines and 4 second-level disciplines (which were not included in any first-level discipline) authorized to confer master’s degrees, and 2 disciplines authorized to confer professional doctorate degrees, 22 disciplines authorized to confer professional master’s degrees, and there are 25 post-doctoral research stations. There are 8 state-level key first-leveldisciplines, 8 state-level key second-level disciplines, and 3 state-level key (nurtured to develop) second-level disciplines. It has 5 national key laboratories, 6 National Engineering Technology Research Centers, 3 National Engineering Laboratories, 5 International Science & Technology Cooperation Base, and 1Collaborative Innovation Center (2011). And there are Western China Energy Research Institute, Western China Institute of Quality Science and Technology, 115 key research facilities at the provincial and ministerial level. According to the data released by Essential Science Indicators (ESI), 2 disciplines of XJTU are ranked top 10/00 on the ESI list, 14 disciplines of XJTU are ranked top 1% on the ESI list up to March, 2018.