On April 18, 2000, was founded in the early 1950 s of the original with the original xi 'an xi 'an highway traffic university college of engineering, northwest of the original building engineering college three affiliated universities formed was renamed chang 'an university.
As of December 2016, the school has two teaching areas and two internship bases, with a campus area of 3745 mu. Equipped with 21 teaching school (department), there are five national key disciplines, 26 BuShengJi key discipline, eight postdoctoral scientific research, 8 first-level discipline doctoral degree, 50 level of discipline, 26 primary discipline master, 118 master's degree program is the secondary discipline, 78 undergraduate professional; There are seven master's degree authorization categories, including public administration and business administration, and 16 engineering master degree programs. It is the national university students' cultural quality education base, the Chinese people's armed police force reserve officer selection training base. There are more than 34000 full-time students, among which, there are more than 10,000 foreign students.