The earliest university in China, which is also a real university, is a foreign missionary university-Shanghai St. John's University, which was born in the 1960s in 19.

The earliest government-run university is Beiyang University Hall (1895), followed by Nanyang College (1896) and Shi Jing University Hall (1898).

But the first university officially written in the history books was Beiyang University Hall, the predecessor of Tianjin University.