Shenyang University includes Northeastern University, Liaoning University, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang Agricultural University, China Medical University, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang University, shenyang jianzhu university, Shenyang Gong Li University, shenyang institute of chemical technology, Shenyang Medical College, Shenyang Normal University and Shenyang Institute of Engineering.

Liaoning University, referred to as "Liaoda", is located in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. It is a national "double first-class" construction university, a national "2 1 1 project" key construction university and a first-class university in Liaoning Province. Selected into the excellent legal talents education and training program, the national high-level university construction graduate program, and the national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training program.

Shenyang University of Technology, whose main campus is located in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, is a multi-disciplinary research and application-oriented university focusing on engineering, science, economics, management, literature, law, philosophy and art, and has been selected into the national "excellent engineer education and training plan" and the national postgraduate plan for building a high-level university.

Shenyang Agricultural University, referred to as Shenyang Agricultural University for short, is located in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, and is a national key university jointly established by Liaoning Province and the central government. It is also one of the key universities in the basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions, and the first batch of pilot universities in China for the construction of new rural development research institutes.

The first batch of pilot universities in the reform of the national education and training plan for outstanding agricultural and forestry talents, universities built by the national "key discipline project with characteristics", universities implemented by the national high-level universities with public postgraduate programs, and key universities built by first-class universities in Liaoning Province.