Southeast University, headquartered in Nanjing, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. It is a national first-class university with 985 project and 2 1 1 engineering construction, and was selected as a strong foundation plan, 201/plan, 1 165444.

The school started from Sanjiang Normal School founded by 1902, and then went through important development periods such as Liangjiang Normal University, Nanjing Normal University, National Southeast University and National Central University. During the period of 1952, the departments of colleges and universities in China were adjusted, and the arts and sciences of schools moved out, with the former National Central University Institute of Technology as the main body. In May 1988, the school was renamed Southeast University.

Southeast University is a comprehensive research university with engineering as its main feature, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, medicine, management, art, history and other disciplines. 13 discipline ranks in the top one percent of ESI world, and engineering ranks in the top one thousandth of ESI world, ranking 17 in the world. Materials science and computer science rank in the top of ESI world 1000, among which computer science ranks ninth in the world.