The predecessor of the School of Physical Science and Technology of Northwestern Polytechnical University was the Department of Applied Physics, which was established in 1987. In 2003, the Department of Applied Physics merged with the Department of Applied Mathematics and the Department of Chemical Engineering to form the School of Science, and in November 2019, the School of Physical Science and Technology was officially established.

The School of Physical Science and Technology adheres to the school motto of "Honesty, Courage and Perseverance" and the school spirit of "Three Realities and One New", adheres to the school-running philosophy of "taking students as the root, educating people, scholars as the priority, academics as the soul, and responsibility as the priority", relying on the advantages of the school's three airlines, aiming at the major needs of the country's military and civilians, and striving to build a high-level, research-oriented and international physics college featuring applied science.

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