The best majors of Huazhong University of Science and Technology are mechanical engineering, optical engineering, materials science and engineering, power engineering and engineering thermophysics, electrical engineering, control science and engineering, and biomedical engineering. These disciplines of Huazhong University of Science and Technology are national key first-class disciplines and belong to the domestic first-class level. In addition, Huazhong University of Science and Technology is also quite strong in medical specialty. Its predecessor is Tongji Medical University, a national key medical university directly under the former Ministry of Health, which ranks very high in China.