When I was admitted to the university, no one would apply for Dalian University. They used to be junior college students with poor foundation. But Dalian is a good place. Recruitment in recent years has really attracted many experts to their school, so now Dalian University is not bad among all universities named after cities in Liaoning Province, at least much better than Shenyang University. But they don't have any strong majors.

Shenyang jianzhu university (Shenyang Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, as you said, has long been renamed) is a very good university. In fact, he was admitted to many southern provinces. In addition, the biggest feature of this school is that its architecture-related majors are very strong, that is, it has its own traditional strong majors, such as roads and bridges, civil engineering, water supply and drainage, engineering management, architectural design and so on. This is very important! The most obvious manifestation is the ease of employment. Every year after graduation, many well-known construction enterprises come to Jianzhu University for recruitment, such as China Railway, major private real estate companies and so on. However, the construction industry has not been as hot as before in the past two years. According to my prediction, the construction industry will continue to shrink in the last 2-3 years, so the employment situation is worse than before. But it should still be among the best universities in Liaoning.

If you like architecture-related majors, I strongly recommend that you choose shenyang jianzhu university.