Tsinghua University, referred to as "Tsinghua" for short, is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and directly under the central government. Ranked as "project 2 1 1", "project 985" and "world-class university and first-class discipline". He has been selected as a member of Nine Major Alliances, China University Presidents Association, East Asia Research University Association, Asian University Alliance, Pacific Rim University Alliance and Tsinghua-Cambridge-MIT Low-carbon University Alliance, and is known as the "cradle of red engineers".