Program overview
This major sounds pretty hardcore, right? Simply put, you'll learn how to design, manufacture, and improve weapons like artillery, machine guns, and sniper rifles, along with their ammunition. Core courses include weapon system design, ballistics, ammunition engineering, automatic weapon principles, and propellant and explosive technology. You'll dive into knowledge from mechanics, materials, engineering, chemistry, and more, with plenty of hands-on experiments—like testing ammunition performance or analyzing weapon structural strength. China has strong expertise in this field, with advanced labs at universities like Nanjing University of Science and Technology and Beijing Institute of Technology, plus close collaboration with defense enterprises for real projects. It's ideal for students who are passionate about mechanics and military tech, enjoy hands-on work, and don't mind tedious calculations and repeated experiments.