There is no doubt that Huazhong University of Science and Technology is indeed a strong engineering school. After all, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Tongji Medical University and Wuhan Urban Construction College merged. The former Huazhong University of Science and Technology was formerly known as Huazhong Institute of Technology. Huazhong Institute of Technology consists of all mechanical departments of Wuhan University, Hunan University, Nanchang University and Guangxi University, as well as the dynamic parts of the mechanical department and the electrical department of South China University of Technology. It entered the ranks of national key universities very early, so the engineering strength of Huazhong University of Science and Technology is really strong.

Huazhong University of Science and Technology is known as "Little Tsinghua in the South", which is often quoted by teachers and students of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. As a result, Huazhong University of Science and Technology itself thinks that it is not as strong as Tsinghua, so Tsinghua is the "first" among engineering colleges, and the voice of opposition is almost small. Domestic universities have always attached importance to science and engineering, ignoring literature and history, which makes domestic science and engineering universities master like a cloud. But there are actually three universities that can really challenge Tsinghua's engineering status, namely Harbin Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University and Jiaotong University. There are still some differences between other universities.

Although Zhejiang University is very famous, it is a comprehensive university with strong agricultural, medical, forestry and science and engineering strengths, but the pure engineering is indeed slightly worse than Shanghai Jiaotong University and Harbin Institute of Technology. Although Zhejiang University is definitely a "not bad money" university, after all, there are too many majors to be allocated, so the relative funding for engineering is less, while Shanghai Jiaotong University and Harbin Institute of Technology do not have this shortcoming. After all, these two universities started from traditional engineering colleges and devoted themselves to their respective fields for many years, so their accumulation in engineering is deeper than that of Zhejiang University, and naturally they have more advantages.

Although the engineering strength of Shanghai Jiaotong University is really strong, it is not a pure "Jiaotong University". In essence, it is a university with Shanghai Institute of Shipbuilding Technology as the main body, which is also the fundamental reason why its ships have always been the first in the country. Shanghai is a national key city. In the early 1980s, a large amount of capital was invested in Shanghai, which laid the foundation for Shanghai's economic development and supporting projects, and also gave Shanghai Jiaotong University enough room for development, which made Shanghai Jiaotong University start to rise. However, compared with Harbin Institute of Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University is still slightly inadequate. This is mainly because Harbin Institute of Technology has a deep accumulation. It was a world-famous engineering university before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and became the earliest military school in China after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Therefore, Harbin Institute of Technology has been well funded and achieved remarkable results.

From the perspective of engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology definitely has the strength to challenge Tsinghua, while Tsinghua is worse in many aspects. It's just that Harbin Institute of Technology is located in the northeast, and its economy is relatively backward, giving people a feeling of losing face. In fact, the engineering strength of Harbin Institute of Technology is absolutely the national TOP2, which is beyond doubt!