Southeast University is a 985 university, 2 1 1 university. Southeast University, referred to as "Dongda" for short, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and the Central Government of People's Republic of China (PRC). It is one of the old eight universities and the original four engineering universities, and the first batch of national double-class (Class A), 2 1 1 Project and 985 Project key construction universities. According to the comprehensive ranking list of China University in 2022, Southeast University ranked 16.