Northwestern University originated from the Shaanxi University Hall and the Imperial Academy of Beijing in 1902. In 1912, it was called Northwestern University. Now it is the first batch of national "world-class discipline construction universities", and national "211 Project" construction universities, co-built by the Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Province.

Northwestern University established the Department of Business as early as 1912, and established the Department of Economics in 1937. Famous scholars such as Wang Yanan, Shen Zhiyuan, Luo Zhanglong and Ji Taoda have taught here successively. In 1977, the economics major and the Department of Economics were restored. In 1985, the School of Economics and Management was established, it enjoys the reputation as the “Cradle of economists” and has now become a well-known national college integrating economics and management, teaching and scientific research.

The MBA education at Northwestern University started in 1996 and has cultivated more than 10,000 MBA students, making it one of the largest MBA training bases in northwest China. The School of Economics and Management has always adhered to the combination of humanistic quality and professional quality, forming six characteristics, as described below:

The first is humanistic orientation, which emphasizes humanistic education, and cultivates MBA students with a humanistic spirit; The second is big problem orientation, which focuses on problem orientation in the teaching process, and cultivates students' ability to grasp major and key issues in economic, social and enterprise development; The third is the platform support of major disciplines, relying on the comprehensive discipline platform of Humanities, History and Science of Northwestern University and the platform support of the integration of economics and management of the School of Economics and Management; The fourth is the diversified faculty, breaking the boundaries between on and off-campus, inside and outside the college, professional title and degree, starting from the needs of MBA students, focusing on the actual needs of enterprises, advocating a multi-style and multi-source teaching team; The fifth is systematic practice, which organically combines action learning, comprehensive training, humanistic quality, and independent improvement projects, and continuously improving and reforming content design, functional appeal and process organization of each sub-project; The sixth is a three-dimensional alumni platform, building a national, regional, and industrial multi-dimensional alumni platform with the help of the modern network.