Honors College/College of Future Technology/Interdisciplinary Research Center has always been considered as the forefront of educational and teaching reforms and a highland for cultivating top talents at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU).

Guided by the “Chief Designer-oriented Education Culture”, the college adheres to the fundamental task of cultivating talent through character education. It upholds the philosophy of “integrating moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor education, promoting interdisciplinary integration, bridging Chinese and Western academic strengths, and pursuing excellence through rigorous refinement”. The college is committed to cultivating chief designer-type innovative leading talents in science and technology with a strong sense of patriotism, a pursuit of excellence, the capacity to shoulder great responsibilities, and the vision to lead future development.

The college was originally derived from the “Education Reform Class” of NPU in 1985. In 2001, it evolved into the Honors College and was titled with the national-level “Innovative and Experimental Zone on Talent Cultivation Model” in 2007. In response to the development needs of the new era, the college upgraded and established the College of Future Technology in 2023, and took on the responsibility of building a national-level Interdisciplinary Research Center in 2025. Since then, it has formed a trinity innovative development pattern of “Two Colleges and One Center”.

The college brings together the strengths of the university’s first-class disciplines and subjects, faculty teams, as well as scientific and educational platforms. It has nurtured a total of over 4,000 top talents, with one “national-level talent” emerging among every 50 graduates on average. Thus, the college has successfully forged a path for the large-scale independent cultivation of top talents characterized by high standards, high quality and high efficiency.