Chang’an University is one of the State “211 Project” key development universities. It was merged by the former Xi’an Highway University, Xi’an Engineering Institute and Northwest Institute of Construction Engineering on April 18th, 2000. Chang’an University has disciplines in engineering, science, as well as economics, management and liberal arts with engineering as its main focus. Highway transportation, land resources and environment and construction engineering are its main features.

Situated in the southern suburb of the world-famous historic city of Xi’an and surrounded by many culture and research institutions, universities and colleges, Chang’an University is literally advantageous to talents in pursuing their academic goals. The university’s five campuses (the Main Campus, Yanta Campus, Xiaozhai Campus, Weishui Campus and Taibai Campus) cover an area of 3,000 mu.

At present, the Chang’an university has 15 institutes, 2 mobile stations for postdoctoral research programs, 5 first-class discipline postdoctoral degree conferring posts, 39 second-class discipline postdoctoral degree conferring posts, 83 master degree conferring posts and 75 undergraduate majors or specialties.