Northeastern University is located in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, the central city in Northeast China, and has a branch in Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. The school covers a total area of 2.646 million square meters, with a building area of1.8300 square meters. The school has 4,490 faculty members, including 2,857 full-time teachers. There are 5 academicians from China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering, and 4 overseas academicians.
Northeastern University is a multi-disciplinary university focusing on work, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, management, art and other categories. Engineering discipline ranks first in the world 1‰. There are 104 undergraduate majors, including 15 national specialty majors and 27 national first-class undergraduate majors. There are 24 first-level doctoral programs, two doctoral programs 12 1, 36 first-level master programs and two master programs 183.
The school adheres to the scientific research direction of serving the national strategy and regional development, encourages free exploration, promotes collaborative innovation, steadily improves the level of basic research, and constantly enhances the competitiveness of scientific and technological innovation. Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", the school has undertaken 8000 scientific and technological projects and won nearly 300 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological awards, including 14 national scientific and technological awards such as the first prize of national scientific and technological progress and the second prize of national natural science, and 67 provincial and ministerial-level first prizes; Obtained 5 109 national patents, including 4,584 invention patents.
985 and 2 1 1 project
"985 Project" is a high-level university and key discipline construction project starting from 1998. Its purpose is to make China's higher education have a higher reputation and influence in the world. Under the impetus of this plan, the state supports and invests in the construction of 39 high-level universities and several key disciplines, and is committed to building a number of universities with high academic reputation and influence in the world.
"2 1 1 Project" is a project initiated by the Ministry of Education in 1995 to improve the level of national higher education, mainly to reform and develop domestic higher education institutions and improve the overall strength of higher education. Under the impetus of the plan, the state has increased its support for key universities, which have gained more investment and resources, and improved their academic level and teaching quality through various channels.