Northwestern Polytechnical University
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Motto: | 公诚勇毅 |
Established: | 1938 |
Type: | Public coeducational |
Faculty: | 1,420 |
Undergraduates: | 15,550 |
Postgraduates: | 12,780 |
Location: | Xi'an, China |
Campus: | Urban |
Colors: | None |
Mascot: | Aeroplane |
Website: | 中文 en |
Northwestern Polytechnical University ( NWPU, 西北工业大学 ) is a University located in 127#,Youyi West Road , Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China.
[edit] History
NPU was founded in October, 1957, and its predecessors were the Northwestern Engineering College and the Xi'an Aeronautical Institute (formed by the Shanghai Jiaotong University,Nanjing Central University, and the Aeronautical department of Zhejiang University) founded in 1938. In 1970 the Engineering Department of Harbin Engineering College was merged into NPU.
NPU is one of the 15 key universities in China, and during the "Seventh Five-year Plan" and the "Eighth Five-year Plan", NPU had been one of the universities of state capital construction.
Northwestern Polytechnical University is not a polytechnic college. Using this name is to cover its military science background.
There are currently about 20,000 students enrolled in the university.