Mingde College of Northwestern Polytechnical University is a full-time undergraduate-level independent college approved by the Ministry of Education. Its predecessor was the Institute of Gold Leaf Information Technology at Northwestern Polytechnical University established in 1999. The college relies on the strong comprehensive school running advantages of Northwestern Polytechnical University, and sets its specialty according to the needs of national and regional economic and social development as well as the trend of modern science and technology. It has initially formed a pattern of undergraduate education with a moderate scale and outstanding characteristics. The professional construction is mainly labor-based, with the coordinated development of literature, economics, management, and arts. The college currently has network engineering, software engineering, communications engineering, internet of things engineering, machinery design and manufacturing and automation, aircraft manufacturing engineering, English, translation, finance, energy economy, accounting, financial management, industrial design, broadcasting and hosting There are 31 undergraduate majors in arts, electrical engineering and automation, and the number of students is nearly 10,000.
The college is located in the north of the Qinling Mountains in the Chang’an District of Xi’an and on the east side of the Weihe River, adjacent to the Xi’an University Chang’an Campus. The campus is tree-lined and has a beautiful environment. It covers an area of ​​610 mu. The building area of ​​the school building is 21,590 square meters. The school has good infrastructure, advanced teaching equipment and equipment; the faculty is well-educated; it has 14 teaching teams led by national and provincial teaching masters; campus environment, information, and human culture campus environment construction, iconic library buildings, Practical teaching centers, good sports venues, student apartments, and logistic services create a comfortable, good learning, working, and living environment for teachers and students.
The college has successively won the "National Advanced Independent College", "National Model University with the Most Social Satisfaction Degree", "National Independent Strength Top 10 Independent College", "China's Most Competitive Employment Undergraduate College", and "Shaanxi Provincial Private-Run College Enterprise 5A grade unit "and other honorary titles. The college has been awarded 3 provincial teaching achievement awards, 4 provincial-level quality resource sharing courses, 4 provincial-level “innovation experimental zones for talent training modes”, and 1 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship education reform pilot college (department); The engineering and aircraft manufacturing projects were approved for the "first-class professional" cultivation project in Shaanxi Province. The college has always attached importance to the construction of teaching materials. More than 130 titles have been officially published, of which many have been listed at the national, provincial and various planning teaching materials, and 5 have been awarded the provincial outstanding teaching materials award. In the past three years, the college has been awarded three Shaanxi Higher Education Reform Research Projects, of which the “Research and Practice on Innovative and Entrepreneurial Education Course System for Applied and Electromechanical Majors” has been approved as a key research project for education reform in Shaanxi Province; We have approved 50 research fund projects within and outside the institute, including 5 provincial-level research and special fund projects in 2017.
In recent years, college students have participated in domestic and international competitions, winning numerous international and domestic awards, Zeng Rong International Underwater Robot Competition International First Prize, New York International Federation Association Group International Third Prize, and National University Student Computer Design Competition National Second Class. Awards and so on. The college always takes high-quality employment as its top priority. The employment rate of graduates remains at 92% or more for four consecutive years. Most of the graduates have entered the work of scientific research, teaching, large and medium-sized enterprises, and are generally praised by society and employers. Chen Mo, who is the first university student to build an ultralight aircraft in China, is an outstanding graduate of our school. Every year, a large number of graduates are admitted to the 985, 211 universities or foreign universities for graduate students, among the best in the province.