The University of Minnesota Twin Cities is a branch of the University of Minnesota, located in the twin cities of Minnesota, USA. The university is a comprehensive research university with more than 50 disciplines, covering many fields such as business, law, medicine, education, engineering, art and social sciences. In China, the twin cities of the University of Minnesota can be equivalent to first-class 985 universities, such as Peking University, Tsinghua and Fudan University, or to first-class 2 1 1 universities, such as Shanghai Jiaotong University.