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Xi'an University of Architecture and
Technology (XAUA
T) is located in the
famous historical and
cultural
city
of
Xian. To
its far
south
is
the world-famous
Big
Wild
Goose
Pagoda,
built
in
the
Tang Dynasty, adjacent
to the north, is the renowned city wall of the
Ming Dynasty. The university
covers
an
area
of
3,100,000
m2,
including
a
construction
area
of
900,000
m2.
The campus
is
picturesque and charming and is
permeated with a rich academic ambience.
The
origin
of
XAUA
T
dates
back
to
1895,
the
year when Tianjin
Beiyang
School
of
Western
Learning (Beiyang
University) was first established. Over the years,
the university pooled together
the
earliest elites in the disciplines of civil
engineering, architecture, and municipal
engineering in
the history of modern
Chinese higher education. In 1956, in the third
nation-wide restructuring of
universities and colleges, the school
was named Xi'an Institute of Construction
Engineering after
integrating
and
amalgamating
departments
of
civil
engineering,
architecture,
and
municipal
engineering at the
Northeast Institute of Technology, Northwest
Institute of Technology, Qingdao
Institute
of
Technology,
and
South
Jiangsu
Technical
School.
The
school
was
renamed
Xi'an
Institute
of
Metallurgy
in
1959
and subsequently
Xi'an Institute
of
Metallurgy
and
Construction
Engineering
in
1963.
On
March
8,
1994,
approved
by
the
Ministry
of
Education,
the
school
adopted
its
present
name,
Xi'an
University
of
Architecture
and
Technology.
It
is
now
widely
recognized
as
one
of
China's
most
influential
universities
in
the
field
of
civil
engineering
and
architecture.
XAUA
T
inherits
and promotes the professional advantage and
expertise accumulated over more
than a
hundred years. More than 50 years has elapsed
since the merger. Through the unremitting
efforts of all teachers and students,
the university has become a multi-disciplinary
university with
a
profound
cultural
tradition,
a rich
academic
atmosphere,
and
a
beautiful
campus
environment,
and it enjoys a good reputation both at
home and abroad. The university has the
disciplines of civil
engineering and
architecture as its characteristic specialties,
engineering as the major discipline,
and also other disciplines such as
liberal arts, sciences, economics, management, art
and law. At
present,
the
university
has
16
schools
and
departments
offering
56
undergraduate
programs
to
students
in
China.
The
university
is
empowered
to
enroll
students recommended
for
admission
who
can
undertake
the
undergraduate-graduate
programs
consecutively.
Apart
from
the
3
disciplines of
architecture, city planning and landscape science
which offer a five-year curriculum,
the
remainder of the disciplines provide four-year
undergraduate programs. The university has 9
specialties designated as the national
characteristic specialties, namely architecture,
city planning,
civil
engineering,
environmental
engineering,
building
environment
and
facility
engineering,
engineering
management,
material
science
and
engineering,
water
and
wastewater
engineering,
and
art
design.
In
addition,
11
specialties
are
provincial
characteristic
specialties.
They
are
architecture,
civil
engineering,
city
planning,
environmental
engineering,
metallurgical
engineering,
water
and
wastewater
engineering,
building
environment
and
facility
engineerin
g,
engineering
management,
metal
material
engineering,
inorganic
material
engineering,
and
art
design.
The
university
has
a
faculty
and
staff
of
over
2,500,
including
3
academicians
of
the
Chinese
Academy
of
Engineering,
1
member
of
the
South
African
Academy
of Science,
and
about
800
teachers, engineers, technicians, and
researchers with high professional titles. The
teachers' team is