School of Science is one of the oldest faculties of Xi’an Jiaotong University. The predecessor of School of Science of Xi’an Jiaotong University was Science School of Jiaotong University in Shanghai, which was founded in 1931 and renamed School of Science in 1937. In 1994, School of Science was reconstructed and include Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. In 2011, the mathematics discipline was separated to be School of Mathematics and Statistics.

Currently, School of Science is a research school consisting of 9 major categories of disciplines: applied physics, materials of physics, optical information technology and science, college physics, physics laboratory, applied chemistry, material chemistry, college chemistry and chemistry laboratory. It also includes talented student class in physics and talented student class in biology and chemistry. The school has a faculty and staffs of 212 people including 168 full-time teachers, of whom 56 are professors, 64 are associate professors and 48 are lecturers, 10 postdocs and 31 experimental technicians. What’s more, there are 82 young full-time faculties who are less than 40 years old and they all have received a doctor's degree, accounting for 48.8 percent of the total number of teachers in the school.

School of Science now has 665 full-time enrolled students, 174 Ph.D students and 281 master students, with annually enrolling about 45 Ph.D students and 110 masters. For physics, undergraduate programs include applied physics, optics information of Tech. & Sci. and materials of physics. Postgraduate programs include condensed matter physics, theoretical physics, atomic, molecular & optical physics and materials physics & chemistry. For chemistry, undergraduate programs include applied chemistry and material chemistry. Postgraduate programs include applied chemistry, analytical chemistry and polymer chemistry & physic

School of Science has 4 key research facilities: MOST International Joint Research Center for new mate...