Directly under the administration of Ministry of Education, Changan University is one of the State "211 Project" key development universities, and the advantage subject innovation platform construction university of national "985 project". It was merged by the former Xian Highway University, Xian Engineering Institute and Northwest Institute of Construction Engineering on April 18th, 2000. Chang’an University has 21 colleges and departments. There are 7 post-doctoral research stations, 58 doctoral, 142 master and 79 undergraduate specialties. It is also the basement of state university student culture training and the Chinese People's Armed Police reserve officer ion and training. Presently, there are more than 29,000 full-time students, and more than 6,000 doctoral students, postgraduate students and foreign students.