XI'AN MINGDE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY is an independent college at the level of full-time undergraduate according to the approval of the National Ministry of Education, and its predecessor is the Northwestern Polytechnical University Gold Leaf Information Technology College founded in 1999. In 2005, Shaanxi Gold Leaf Science and Education Group Co., Ltd. and Northwestern Polytechnical University applied to establish the independent college at the level of undergraduate jointly-Northwestern Polytechnical University Ming de College on the basis of success school-running of Gold Leaf Information Technology College, and the application was approved by the national Ministry of Education. In September of the same year, the college started to recruit the undergraduates officially, and it becomes the general institute of higher education to implement the education at bachelor degree.
The college, located in the north piedmont of Qinling Mountain, Chang’an district, Xi’an City and the bank of Fenghe River and adjacent to Xi’an High and New Tech Development Zone and Chang’an campus of Northwestern Polytechnical University, covers an area of 610 acres, wherein the building area of schoolhouse is 250,400m2. The college consists of 9 departments, 7 functional departments and 2 direct subordinate units. Now, the college has 10,045 students in the college and 767 faculties, including 566 specialized teachers and 290 full-time teachers among the specialized teachers.
Relied on the abundant comprehensive school-running strength of Northwestern Polytechnical University, the college has formed the undergraduate education pattern with moderate scale and distinctive characteristics. On the aspect of specialty construction, it gives priority to engineering and develops the liberal art, finance, management and arts harmoniously. It is set with 30 majors, such as software engineering, communication engineering, intent of thing engineering, mechanical design & manufacture and its automation, flight vehicle manufacturing engineering, English, finance, energy economy, accounting, industrial design, broadcast and hosting arts, etc.