Tsinghua and Peking University are the top universities in China, with the highest admission scores almost every year. Although, 202 1, Tsinghua University's admission score is only ranked fourth, but this is only a special case and does not represent the mainstream direction.

Tsinghua University, referred to as "Tsinghua" for short, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It ranks among the "world-class universities and disciplines", "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project", and has been selected into "20 165438 Plan", "Everest Plan" and "985 Project". As a member of Nine Schools Alliance (C9), Song Lian Alliance, China University Presidents Association, Asian University Alliance, Pacific Rim University Alliance, Tsinghua, Cambridge and MIT Low-carbon University Alliance, China is known as the "cradle of red engineers".