Tsinghua University (Tsinghua for short), a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), ranks among the first batch of "double-class", "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project" in China, and is selected as "201/Plan" and "Academic Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Project in Colleges and Universities".
Tsinghua University is a comprehensive research university, a base for high-level personnel training and scientific and technological research in China, and is known as the "cradle of red engineers".
As of August 2022, the school covers an area of 462.74 hectares, with a building area of 3,026,700 square meters. It has 12 disciplines, 2 1 college and 59 teaching departments, including science, engineering, literature, art, history, philosophy, economics, management, law, teaching, medicine and interdisciplinary subjects.
At present, there are 50 post-doctoral research mobile stations, 22 national key disciplines of first-class disciplines, 62 authorized doctoral and master's points of first-class disciplines, and faculty members 16057.
Tsinghua University's predecessor, Tsinghua Academy, was founded in 19 1 1, and 19 12 was renamed Tsinghua Academy. 1928 changed its name to National Tsinghua University. 1937 after the full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it moved south to Changsha and formed the National Changsha Temporary University with Peking University and Nankai University. /kloc-moved to Kunming in 0/938 and changed its name to National Southwest Associated University.
1946 moved back to Tsinghua campus. It has trained outstanding alumni such as Liang Sicheng, Jiang Yang and Yang Liwei. As of 2022, Tsinghua University ranked1in China University of Soft Science in 2022; In 2023, QS World University Ranking 14.