The professional rankings of automation universities are: Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beihang University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Xi Jiaotong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Southeast University.

The Automation Department affiliated to Tsinghua University Institute of Information Science and Technology has developed into a high-level talent training and scientific and technological innovation base in the field of automation in China, leading the continuous innovation of automation education and control science and engineering in China.

Tsinghua University Automation Department was founded in1970; 1July, 979, Tsinghua University adjusted the specialty layout as a whole, merged some teachers who had been engaged in the research and teaching of automatic control theory in the computer department (that is, the original automatic control department) into the automation department, strengthened the theoretical foundation of automation discipline, and established the control theory teaching and research group; During the period of 1999, the department of automation adjusted the original eight teaching and research groups to six research institutes in coordination with the system reform carried out by the school.

Official website, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, showed that in August, 2020, the undergraduate major of Automation Department was 1. There are 1 first-class disciplines and 7 two disciplines, all of which have the right to award master's and doctoral degrees; There are 89 teachers, including 40 professors and researchers, 40 associate professors and researchers, and 9 assistant professors and researchers.

Introduction to automation specialty:

Automation is an engineering and computer major, and it is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities. The basic study period is four years, and the bachelor of engineering degree is awarded. The professional code is 08080 1.

Automation mainly studies basic knowledge and technology such as electronic technology, automatic control, system engineering and information processing. , analysis, design, development and research of automation system, and realize automatic control of various equipment and systems. For example, the design of building automatic door control system, the design and manufacture of intelligent robots, the automatic control of industrial equipment, and the research and development of automatic meteorological observation system.

Postgraduate direction: control engineering, control science and engineering, control theory and control engineering, detection technology and automation devices.