School of Marxism of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), formerly known as the Marxism-Leninism Teaching and Research Office (1956), has successively experienced the Ministry of Social Sciences (1983), then changed to the Department of Social Sciences (1985, with the major of Ideological and Political Education), School of Humanities, Economics and laws (2003), and the Department of Ideological and Political Theory Teaching and Research (2010). In December 2015, the School of Marxism (hereinafter referred to as the School) was established, which was jointly established with China’s Yan’an Cadre College, and it was a second-level unit with an independent organizational system directly under the leadership of the university. The discipline of Marxist theory has been identified as a key discipline in the school’s construction and development. In 2018, it was approved as the first batch of key Marxism colleges in Shaanxi Province.

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