Northwest A&F University boasts a qualified faculty and research team.Currently, there are 4466 teaching and administrative staff,including 511 senior professionals and 936 associate senior professionals,1 academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences,1 academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering,7 national distinguished professors,3 distinguished professors and 3 chair professors of “Chang Jiang Scholar Program”,5 recipients of "National Outstanding Youth Fund",2 national Teaching Celebrity,12 award winners in the National "Thousand Young Talent Program",2 National Model Teachers, 3 National Outstanding Teachers, 71 winners of "Training Program Foundation for Talents of New Century",3 winners of“University Excellent Teacher Award”,6 winners of“University Excellent Young Teacher Grant”,59 winners of Shaanxi“Talents Project”,75 recipients of Special Government Grants，342 doctoral advisors and 835 graduate advisors.

NWAFU has always attached great importance to the building of talents team to boost the talents developing strategy.Guided by the idea of“introduce excellent talents, make full use of existing talents and foster backup talents”,the university has launched Hundred Talents Introduction plan and a series of“Hou Ji Scholar”talents projects, including Innovative Team, Top-notch Talent, Young Academic Backbone and training program.The university also invites 3 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and 8 academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering as jointly-appointed academicians,many renowned scholars as our academic deans, part-time professors and visiting professors.The university provides opportunity and encourages young faculty to study abroad so as to improve their internationalization level.

Guided by discipline construction,centered on improving faculty quality and fostering academic leaders and backbones, our teaching staff construction is always based on Teachers’Law, Higher Education Act and Teaching Qualification Regulation.The university is striving to build a rationally constructed,relatively stable,highly qualified,highly efficient,extremely vital,and high level faculty team.(Data updated on March 31,2015)