University application guide
西北大学
Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
This guide brings together the application routes, published timing, submission methods, scholarship steps, documents, and source links recorded for Northwest University. Requirements can differ by degree, program, teaching language, and funding route. The university’s current notice controls the application.
The profile includes CSC-related application guidance for Northwest University. Type B participation, eligible programs, and deadlines must be confirmed in the current university call.
Agency number recorded: 10697. Confirm it in the current Type B notice before submitting.
CNY 400 for self-funded applicants; CNY 600 for scholarship applicants Northwest University's CSC award notices state the application fee explicitly: the 2025 NWU Chinese Government Scholarship (High Level Postgraduate Programs) notice and the 2025 Silk Road Chinese Government Scholarship bachelor notice both say '报名费600元人民币，不予退还' — the application fee is CNY 600 and is not refundable — with the English text 'Application fee is 600RMB which is non-refundable.' The applicant pays after the university's application system issues a '支付报名费' (pay the application fee) notice. The fee is itemised separately from the award, whose coverage the same notices list as a tuition waiver, free on-campus accommodation, a monthly living allowance and comprehensive medical insurance, so the CNY 600 is an application fee and not tuition or a per-term charge.
2025 CSC award round for international master's and doctoral applicants to Northwest University, with the application fee and the Silk Road bachelor round read from the university's separately published award notices on the same site · recorded source check: September 17, 2026
Published dates and unconfirmed windows
Northwest University publishes dated award-by-award windows for the 2025 and 2026 intakes on its School of International Education site, and none for a later intake. The 2025 NWU Chinese Government Scholarship (High Level Postgraduate Programs) notice sets a CSC application deadline of 25 February 2025 for master's and doctoral applicants ('申请截止日期 2025/02/25'). The 2025 Silk Road Chinese Government Scholarship bachelor programme notice sets an application deadline of 20 May 2025 ('申请截止：2025年5月20日'). The Xi'an 'Central Asian Five Countries' Scholarship notice gives a 2024 intake window of 5 January 2024 to 15 April 2024, with enrolment on 1 September 2024. All three rounds have closed as of 17 September 2026. The university's most recent undergraduate admission brochure is the 2026 来华国际学生本科生招生简章, published 28 November 2025, whose dated content is held in a .docx attachment protected by a download CAPTCHA; its dates could not be read this pass, so the window here rests on the award notices that are published as readable pages. No notice for the 2027 intake had been published as of 17 September 2026.
Recorded CSC agency number; confirm it in the current CSC call: 10697
Guide scope reviewed 3 October 2026. Dates apply only to the intake and route named in each notice.
Funding options
These awards are listed on the university profile. Eligibility, eligible degree levels, coverage, deadlines and whether new applicants can apply vary by award and intake. Open the dated call before selecting an award or paying an application fee.
Choose your funding route to see where to start, which systems to use and what to submit.
Historical reference: CSC portal → university portal
CSC Type B
2027 dates unconfirmed · Autumn degree intake; program-dependent
A university-specific 2027 schedule is not established by the reviewed sources. Confirm the program’s current Type B availability, opening date and deadline in its dated notice.
University website — locate the current route noticeHigh-level graduate CSC admission
Contact an intended supervisor first and obtain the required acceptance letter. Complete CSC Type B, agency 10697, download and sign its form, then submit NWU’s online application. Wait for the system/email payment notice before paying the CNY 600 non-refundable application fee. Submission is online only; paper files are not accepted. Provide qualifications/transcripts, medical and police records, two academic references, at least 1,000-word plan, language evidence and research achievements. Follow system/email for pre-admission and final review. The body explicitly identifies 2025 and February 25, 2025; the later publication timestamp does not make this a 2026 or 2027 notice.
Reference: 2025 historical; closed February 25, 2025 despite October 2025 publication stamp. Confirm the latest notice for the same course and route before applying.
Read the university's procedureCheck Northwest University's current prospectus for your degree, teaching language, eligibility and deadline. Arrange supervisor contact or pre-admission first when the program requires it.
Read official admission instructionsUse the checklist below, then compare it with your program's required documents. Prepare any signed forms, translations and referee submissions before starting the final application.
Use the application type, agency number, degree level, and submission order stated in the current call. A university-hosted place may use Type B; an embassy-nominated place may use Type A. Do not select a route or reuse a prior-cycle code unless the current notice confirms it.
Open CSC portalUse the official application link and complete the fields required for your route. Submit documents only through the channel and at the stage stated in the current notice. Pay a charge only when instructed; retain any submission confirmation the system provides.
Check your portal and email for missing-document requests, interviews and results. If a form is returned, correct it and resubmit. Keep admission and scholarship decisions separate; follow the final offer for acceptance, registration and original-document checks.
See annotated portal walkthroughs
Use the document list for your exact program. Prepare these common items, then add any scholarship-specific forms:
Scan each complete document clearly. Use the file type and size limit shown beside its upload field; combine multi-page documents only where the system permits. Open every uploaded file to check legibility, page order, signatures and stamps. Keep a copy of everything you submit.
Application templatesFollow the submission method in your programme's notice. The steps below apply when it requires an online form; email and paper applications follow their separate source-linked instructions above.
University agency number on record: 10697. For Type B, match it to Northwest University in CSC. Type A uses your dispatching authority's number instead.
Open CSC application systemCSC scholarship application systemThe links below support the dates, route sequence, and program details shown above. Some are planning references rather than a current university deadline; each item on the admissions calendar states its source and evidence basis.
Dates and funding rules change by intake. Recheck the current official notice before paying, submitting, or arranging documents.