Anhui University, located in Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province, is the first batch of "world-class discipline construction universities" in China. The Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Anhui Province jointly build universities, and the national "2 1 1 project" focuses on the construction of universities.

China University of Science and Technology, located in Hefei, Anhui Province, is a comprehensive national key university with cutting-edge science and high technology, as well as medicine, characteristic management and humanities, and is affiliated to China Academy of Sciences. It ranks among the top universities in the world in the construction of universities, 985 project and 2 1 1 project.

Hefei University of Technology is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), a national "world-class discipline construction university" and a national "2 1 1 engineering construction university".