School of Physical Education

  School of Physical Education in Xi’an University was established in July, 2019, formerly known as the Sports Department of Xi’an Teachers College founded in 1959. In 2003, the school was upgraded into a four-year program  in the university. In 2007, it was authorized to confer Bachelor degree. Since 2015, it has worked together in agreement with Xi’an Physical Education University and Yan’an University in graduate program training , which is the main  training base for Sports teachers in Xi’an education system.

  School of Physical Education includes the Department of Physical Education, Teaching Department of University Sports,, Group Competition Training Center, Experimental Venue Management and Local Cooperation Center, Student Physical Fitness Test Center, Sports and Health Research Institute.. It undertakes the courses involved in Physical Education majors and University Sports . At the same time, it is responsible for the physical fitness test, sunshine sports, sports training and other activities  of  the whole university. The school has a faculty of 44 full-time teachers, including four  professors, 18 associate professors, 21 lecturers, and one teaching assistant.There are 4 full-time lab and teaching assistants.  22 of the faculty have obtained   master’s degree, 20 are dual-qualified teachers, and four   experts are employed as part-time professors, which has formed a reasonable structure of the teaching team . Since 2013, the school has a current enrollment of over 283 full-time undergraduates from 13 provinces  across the country.

  The school now has two 400-meter standard stadiums (with football field inside), one multi-functional gymnasium, one gymnastics hall, one fencing hall, one taekwondo gymnasium, one swimming pool, and 23 outdoor ball courts. More than that,  one sports health laboratory, one sports anatomy laboratory, one exercise physiology laboratory, and multiple multimedia classrooms are also set up. The school has more than 10,000 professional books and six  internship training bases.

  Over the years, the School has actively carried out international and domestic exchanges and cooperation programs, and successively hosted the “China (Xi’an), Japan (Nara), South Korea (Gyeongju) International Sister Cities Sports Competition”, “The 25th Shaanxi University Student Track and Field Games”, the “12th The National College Student Fencing Championship” and the “Shaanxi Student Fencing Championship” and other various competitions, which have been highly appraised by the organizers. Since 2000, students of the school have won 56 gold medals, 48 silver medals, and 62 bronze medals in the National University Fencing Championships. The school Rouli Ball team has won many championships in national, provincial and municipal competitions in recent years. The school Rope Skipping team has won two golds, three silvers, and four bronzes in the 2019 National Rope Skipping Championships. The school Women’s Football team won the first place in the “The Second University Student 5-a-side of Shaanxi ProvinceCompetition”. The school teams of Track and Field, Swimming, Orienteering, Basketball, Roller Skating, Table Tennis, Aerobics, Tennis  have repeatedly achieved good results in provincial and municipal competitions.

  The School of Physical Education has been committed in improving  quality in teaching,  research, mass sports, and sports training,. Driven by innovation,   the school has trained thousands of sports talents  for the country and made important contributions to the development of sports, education, technology, and culture development in the region.  Graduates have performed outstandingly  in their jobs and achieved excellent  results, with an emergence of many advanced practitioners and managers . In the new era, the School of Sport will continue to deepen the reform of education and teaching, accelerate the construction and development of Sports disciplines, and strive to raise the level of school Sport to a new level.