Tsinghua University, abbreviated as "Tsinghua", is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It ranks among the national "double-class" Class A, "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project", and is selected into "201Plan", "Everest Plan" and "Strong Foundation Plan".
Tsinghua School, the predecessor of the school, was founded in 19 1 1. The name of "Tsinghua" originated from the place name of the school site "Tsinghua Campus", which was a preparatory school for studying in the United States founded by the government in the late Qing Dynasty. The funds for its establishment came from 1908, part of boxer indemnity returned by the United States. 19 12 was renamed Tsinghua school. 1928 changed its name to National Tsinghua University.
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By the end of February 20 18, there were 3,485 teachers in the school, including young teachers under 45 1743. Among the teachers, the senior position is 138 1, and the deputy senior position is 1648. Among the teachers, Nobel Prize winner 1 person, Turing Prize winner 1 person, academician of China Academy of Sciences 5 1 person, academician of China Academy of Engineering 39 people, and professor 16 people won the national "Teacher Award in Colleges and Universities".
167 people were selected as distinguished professor, 52 were selected as young scholars, 239 were awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and 152 were awarded the Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Tsinghua University.