1, Liaoning University, a comprehensive key university with nine disciplines, such as literature, history, philosophy, economics, law, science, engineering, management and art, is a national key construction institution of "21engineering", and Liaoning Province has also been selected into the national "double-first-class" world-class discipline construction sequence.
2. Dalian University of Technology, referred to as "Dagong", is located in the coastal city of Dalian. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, and jointly established by the Ministry of Education, Liaoning Province and Dalian City. It is a national "double-class" world-class university, a national "985 Project" and a national "2005 Project".
Northeastern University, referred to as Dongda for short, is a high-level research-oriented national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). Located in Shenyang, the central city of Northeast China, it has a branch of Northeastern University in Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, which is jointly built by the Ministry of Education, Liaoning Province and Shenyang City. It is a world-class university, and the first batch of "2 1 1 project" and "0 project" in China.
4. Dalian Maritime University, a national key university directly under the Ministry of Transport, is a national "double-class" world-class discipline construction university. It is a national "2 1 1 project" construction university jointly established by the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Education, the former State Oceanic Administration, the Liaoning Provincial People's Government and the Dalian Municipal People's Government. The school is a famous maritime institution of higher learning in China, known as the "cradle of navigators" and one of the few maritime institutions in the world recognized by the International Maritime Organization as "enjoying international reputation".