Tsinghua's abbreviation comes from his habit of historical abbreviation.
Tsinghua University, founded in 19 1 1, is an institution of higher learning directly under the Ministry of Education of China and one of the most famous universities in China. Known as "the cradle of red engineers", it belongs to "2 1 1 project" and "985 project".
Its predecessor was Tsinghua School. Tsinghua University is named after the Tsinghua campus in the northwest suburb of Beijing. 19 12, renamed Tsinghua school. 1928, renamed National Tsinghua University. 1938, moved to Kunming and changed its name to National Southwest Associated University. 1946 moved back to Tsinghua campus to resume studies, and changed its name to "Tsinghua University" after 1949.
As of June 5438+February, 2020, Tsinghua University has a campus area of 442 12 hectare and a building area of 2,876,400 square meters. There are 2/kloc-0 colleges, 59 teaching departments and 82 undergraduate majors. There are 50 post-doctoral research stations, 22 national key disciplines of first-class disciplines, and 60 doctoral and master's authorization points of first-class disciplines; Faculty 15772, students 53302.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tsinghua University