Tsinghua University (hereinafter referred to as "Tsinghua"), located in Beijing, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking among the national "double first-class", "89", "985 Project" and "21/Project". The nine schools' alliance (C9), Song Lian League, China University Presidents Association, Asian University Alliance and Huanhuan were selected for "20 1 1 plan", "Everest Plan", "Strong Foundation Plan" and "11plan". [ 1-3]
Tsinghua School, the predecessor of the school, was founded in 19 1 1. The name of "Tsinghua" originated from the place name of the school site "Tsinghua Campus", which was a preparatory school for studying in the United States founded by the government in the late Qing Dynasty. The funds for its establishment came from 1908, part of boxer indemnity returned by the United States. 19 12 was renamed Tsinghua school. 1928 changed its name to National Tsinghua University. 1937 after the full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it moved south to Changsha, and formed the National Temporary University of Changsha with the State Peking University and the private Nankai University. /kloc-moved to Kunming in 0/938 and changed its name to National Southwest Associated University. 1946 moved back to Tsinghua campus. People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded 1949, and Tsinghua University entered a new stage of development. China University 1952 has become a multidisciplinary industrial university after adjustment. Starting from 1978, it gradually recovered and developed into a comprehensive research university. [4]
As of June 5438+February, 2020, Tsinghua University has a campus area of 442 12 hectare and a building area of 2,876,400 square meters. There are 2/kloc-0 colleges, 59 teaching departments and 82 undergraduate majors. There are 50 post-doctoral research stations, 22 national key disciplines of first-class disciplines, and 60 doctoral and master's authorization points of first-class disciplines; Faculty 15772, students 53302.