Although Shaanxi Province is a central and western province, its higher education strength cannot be underestimated by any province. It is one of the few provinces in China that has three 985 universities, and has a total of 8 211 universities. Its higher education strength can be said to rank first in the entire western region.
In fact, there is also a very good double non- college in Shaanxi Province, which is Shaanxi University of Science and Technology . Although Shaanxi University of Science and Technology does not show much light in Xi'an, a city where colleges and universities gather, the predecessor of this university is still very well-known. Its predecessor is Northwest Light Industry College .
Shaanxi University of Science and Technology was originally called Beijing Institute of Light Industry . Founded in 1958, it was China's first light industry college. With the changes in domestic universities, it moved to Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province in 1970 and was renamed Northwest Institute of Light Industry. Northwest Institute of Light Industry could be said to be the strongest institution in light industry in the entire western region at that time. In 1978, it was designated by the State Council as one of the 88 key institutions in the country. In the subsequent restructuring of universities, Northwest Light Industry College hoped to continue to be a ministry-affiliated institution. However, the Ministry of Light Industry at that time had only one quota. The Central Academy of Arts and Crafts merged with Tsinghua University and became Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts . Wuxi Light Industry College was stronger than Northwest Light Industry College at that time. In the end, Wuxi Light Industry College became a university directly under the Ministry of Education and developed into today's Jiangnan University .
Northwest Light Industry College was decentralized to Shaanxi Province and became the competent institution of Shaanxi Province. In the subsequent development, Northwest Light Industry College wanted to change its name to a university. There were two plans at that time. The first was to directly change the name of the college to a university, and to rename Northwest Light Industry College to Northwest Light Industry University. The first name of the school can be recognized by the Ministry of Education if it works hard. However, some leaders believe that light industry is not very attractive to students' applications and suggest that the school's name be changed to light industry. In addition, Northwestern Polytechnical University also raised objections to the name of the school. In the end, Northwest Light Industry College gave up the name of Northwest Light Industry University. At this time, some leaders suggested changing the name to Northwest University of Science and Technology. It can be said that this school name was recognized by teachers and students. However, the Ministry of Education quit, and finally Northwest Light Industry College changed its name to Shaanxi University of Science and Technology amid tangles.
It can be said that Northwest Light Industry College started with a good hand, but it turned out that it was not very optimistic. First, it failed to compete for 211 colleges, and then the name change was not considered a success. The renamed Shaanxi University of Science and Technology could not see the professional characteristics of its own school at all, and now it has not entered the ranks of double first-class colleges. It can be said that Northwest Light Industry College has lagged far behind its brother institutions in the 1980s. I hope Shaanxi University of Science and Technology can regain its former glory as soon as possible!
