Northwest University of Politics and Law - Present

Present

Located in the time-honored city of Xi'an, Northwest University of Politics & Law is a multi-disciplinary institution of higher education characterized of law education together with a broad array of disciplines such as philosophy, economics, management, and literature. It is a base of great importance for training nationwide law talents, the centre of law studies in northwest China, and also a significant base for studies of humanities and social sciences in Shaanxi province. Rooted in Shaanxi, oriented to Northwest region, and serving the whole nation, NWUPL has cultivated and is cultivating a great number of talents to serve China's socialist construction in the fields of law, economics, philosophy, arts and engineering.

With students and quality as its orientation, NWUPL aims at cultivating capable and virtuous students to meet the needs in all related walks of life. It always tries to map out most productive discipline construction schemes, constantly perfect each training program, create training models and pursue most fruitful methodology and curriculums. NWUPL was one of the earliest universities in China to implement the credit system, major-plus-auxiliary system, and gradually set up a practical talent training model through combining compulsory and optional courses and integrating class instruction, laboratory work and research. Over the last ten years, the University with clear idea and aim of the new times, and through repeated tries for reforms and innovations, has ascertained the blueprint for law talents training. The project"Research and Practice on Cultivating High-quality and Application-type Law Undergraduates"was awarded the Second Prize in the Sixth National Excellent Teaching Achievements Contest in 2009, together with other 17 teaching achievements awarded Honorary Mentions at the provincial level. In recent years, over 200 state-and-province-featured courses, bilingual demonstration courses, experimental and practical courses, and experimental and field work training centers have been formed, among which experimental centers for law science and journalism have been respectively honored as State-level and Province-level Demonstration Centers. The university has set up national and provincial innovative experimental center for law talents training, namely the West China Experimental Center for Talents Handling International Law Affairs. Because of its efforts to achieve sustainable development of education, NWUPL has gained unanimous praise and compliments from specialists and officials in charge of education. For example, NWUPL was graded"Excellence"in the evaluation of undergraduate education by the Ministry of Education respectively in 2001 and in 2007.

The NWUPL stresses law education and meanwhile spares no efforts to promote other disciplines of humanities and social sciences, trying to make academic studies the engine to power university education. The university has three institutes—Institute of law, Institute of Marxism and Institute of Higher Education，21 academic research centers and 11 key disciplines at both state-level and province-level. In recent five years, it has conducted 39 state-funded projects in social sciences and 100 province-funded and ministry-funded projects, among which 20 have been prized by the ministry and the province. The university is also in charge of many influential Chinese journals of which Law Science, listed in the CSSCI, is the one of the most influential ones among the law core journals in China.