Tsinghua University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and the Central Government of People's Republic of China (PRC). It was rated as "World-class University and First-class Discipline", "21Project" and "985 Project", and was selected as "201Plan", "Everest Plan" and ".
Tsinghua University's predecessor, Tsinghua School, was founded in 19 1 1. The school name "Tsinghua" originated from the place name of the school site "Tsinghua Campus", which was a preparatory school for studying in the United States founded by the Qing government. The funds for its establishment came from part of boxer indemnity returned by the United States in 19 12, and it was renamed Tsinghua School. 1928 changed its name to National Tsinghua University. 1937 after the full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it moved south to Changsha and formed the National Changsha Temporary University with Peking University and Nankai University. /kloc-moved to Kunming in 0/938 and changed its name to National Southwest Associated University. /kloc-moved back to Tsinghua campus in 0/946, where there are 5 colleges and 26 departments of literature, law, science, engineering and agriculture. People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded 1949, and Tsinghua University entered a new stage of development. After the national colleges and universities were adjusted from 65438 to 0952, Tsinghua University became a multi-disciplinary industrial university, focusing on training engineering and technical personnel for the country, and was known as the "cradle of red engineers". Starting from 1978, it gradually recovered and developed into a comprehensive research university.