There are Nanjing University, Southeast University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Suzhou University, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, Yangzhou University, Hohai University, Nanjing University of Technology, Jiangsu University and Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology in the south. Nanjing University, referred to as Nanda for short, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). Ranked among the first-class universities in the world (Class A), Project 2 1 1, Project 985. It is a nine-school alliance of China University Presidents Association and Southeast University, referred to as Dongda, a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), and the first batch of world-class universities in China.