1. Start date: Harbin Institute of Technology. The school was founded in 1920 with the name of Harbin Sino-Russian Institute of Technology. After the Sino-Russian Institute of Technology and the East Special Economic Zone Institute of Technology, the school was officially named Harbin Institute of Technology on 1928. Northeastern University, founded in April 1923 and August 1950, was named Northeast Institute of Technology.

2. Teacher scale: Harbin Institute of Technology, the total number of full-time teachers in the school is 4 165, including full-time senior positions 1337, deputy senior positions 1683, academicians of the two academies 4 1 person (including double employment), 304 national high-level talents and national young talents. Northeastern University has 45 12 faculty members, including 2938 full-time teachers. There are 5 academicians from China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering, and 6 overseas academicians. Compared with Harbin Institute of Technology, teachers are more powerful.

3. Campus environment: Harbin Institute of Technology, with a campus area of 5,654,200 square meters and a construction area of 3,550,800 square meters. Northeastern University, with a total area of 2.646 million square meters and a building area of 1.89 million square meters.

To sum up, Harbin Institute of Technology is better.