Located in Nanjing, Dongda University is a comprehensive research-oriented national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. It is a national key construction university with "double first-class", "985 Project" and "21project", and has been selected into "Everest Plan", "Strong Foundation Plan" and "201".

The excellent engineer education and training plan and the excellent doctor education and training plan are "building eight old schools", the first batch of future technical colleges to build colleges and universities, and the degree authorization independent audit units.

One of the three universities in China that offer juvenile classes is a member of the Alliance of Universities of Excellence, the Alliance of Universities for Sustainable Development in the Yangtze River Delta, the Alliance of Engineering Education and Research between China and Britain, the Alliance of Engineering Universities between China and Russia, and the Alliance of Universities in a Carbon-neutral World.

Southeast University started from Sanjiang Normal School founded by Zhang Zhidong in 1902, and went through Liangjiang Normal School and Nanjing Higher Normal School. 192 1 established national southeast university, 1928 changed its name to national central university.

1952 adjustment of colleges and departments in colleges and universities, and relocation of arts and sciences. With the largest institute of technology as the main body, Nanjing Institute of Technology was established in the original site of Central University. 1988, restore the name of Southeast University. In 2000, it merged with the former Nanjing Railway Medical College, Nanjing Jiaotong University and Nanjing Geological School to form a new Southeast University.

The historic auditorium and Six Dynasties Pine are the symbols of Southeast University.

Southeast citation explanation:

1, the direction between things. Yi Shuo gua: "Xun, Xun, Southeast also." Gao Feng's note: "In Shuo Gua, gossip is used to match all directions, and it is southeast, so it is southeast." "Ancient Poems of Yutai": "Peacocks fly southeast and wander five miles." Gao Mingqi's Biography of Hu: "It is a turtle-shaped city with its head in the southeast and its tail in the northwest." 2. Generally refers to the southeast region within the national territory. Preface to the Book of Song Dynasty: "The police (heavy police) are rich and are heroes in the southeast, so they have no intention to be officials, so they return home sick." Song Chen Liang's "The First Book of Filial Piety": "Your Majesty, according to the exhaustion of Qiantang, used the declining people in Fujian and Zhejiang, but wanted to drum up the people in Xi 'an in the southeast and fight for the Central Plains in the north, so it was difficult to know. "

Zhang Ming Juzheng's Theory of Current Affairs and Politics: "Today, the national tax is in the southeast, but the people's strength is limited, so it should be infinite."