General Information of Xidian University
Xidian university is given priority to with information and electronic discipline, engineering, science, tube, multidisciplinary coordinated development of the national key university, directly under the Ministry of Education, is the national "advantage discipline innovation platform" project and "211 project" project, one of the key construction of national double innovation demonstration base, one of the first 35 demonstration software institute, the first demonstration 9 microelectronics college, the first 9 approved to set up integrated circuit talent training base and the first batch of first-class network security college construction of one of the demonstration colleges and universities. In 2017, the school information and communication engineering, computer science and technology were selected as the national "double first-class"(First-class universities and disciplines of the world )construction discipline.
The university is one of the earliest universities to establish information theory, information system engineering in China, radar, microwave antenna, electronic machinery and electronic confrontation and other majors. It has opened up the first IT discipline in China and formed the distinctive characteristics and advantages of electronic and information disciplines. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the school was approved as 8 national defense characteristic disciplines.The school has two national "double first-class" key construction discipline group (including information and communication engineering, electronic science and technology, computer science and technology, cyberspace security, control science and engineering five level 1 disciplines), two national level key disciplines (covering 6 secondary disciplines), a national secondary key disciplines, 34 provincial key disciplines, 14 doctoral degree authorized level 1 disciplines, 26 master degree authorized level 1 disciplines, 10 postdoctoral research station, 65 undergraduate major. In the fourth round of national first-level discipline evaluation results, 3 disciplines were rated as Class A: electronic science and technology discipline evaluation result is grade A +, ranking first in China; information and communication engineering discipline is located in grade A; computer science and technology discipline evaluation results are grade A-, and the school continues to maintain the leading level in China. According to ESI, both engineering and computer science are among the top 1 ‰ in the world.
International Education in Xidian University
Xidian University is one of the institutions approved by the Ministry of Education to recruit international students and can grant doctor's, master's and bachelor's degrees. In 1997, the university set up an international cultural exchange center to recruit and train international students. After more than ten years of development, the international student education has begun to take shape.
Up to now, more than 400 international students from 18 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Pakistan and Ghana, have come here to learn Chinese and professional courses. Since 2006, the focus of international students' education has shifted from Chinese training to professional academic students; and expanded from Chinese teaching to bilingual teaching in Chinese and English. Since March 2008, the university has enrolled professional undergraduates instructed in English, marking a new level of the education of international students.
Scholarship in Xidian University
In order to meet the needs of the international development of higher education, the university established the School of International Education of Xidian University in October 2008 with a special Chinese language training center. The university has an "international Student Scholarship", which is divided into degree international student scholarship and special international student scholarship. Degree International Student Scholarship is used to fund outstanding international students studying for bachelor's degree, master's degree, and doctoral degrees in our school: The Special International Student Scholarship is mainly used to fund exchange students from friendly universities.
Environment in Xidian University
The university is located in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, with a beautiful campus environment and complete facilities. Xi'an is also a world-famous historical and cultural ancient city. In Chinese history, 13 dynasties have built their capitals here, leaving a large number of historic sites, such as the Terracotta Warriors and horses, known as "the eighth wonder in the world". It is an ideal city to learn Chinese culture and understand Chinese history.
International Exchange and Cooperation
In terms of Sino-foreign cooperation in running colleges, the college has undertaken the application and management of Sino-foreign cooperation since 2013. At the end of 2013, our university's first Sino-foreign cooperative project- -Xi University of Electronic Science and Technology and the Comprehensive Institute of Nante University jointly held the undergraduate education project of electronic information engineering, which was approved by the Ministry of Education. The program is available from 2014 and is included in the National Higher Education Enrollment Program with 100 students per year. On this basis, the college continues to explore, actively seeking to carry out cooperation with international high-level universities to run schools, introduce foreign high-quality education and teaching resources, promote the training of school education and teaching reform and international talents, and improve the open and international level of university.