Taking the construction of first-class disciplines as the leading factor to promote the ecological agglomeration of disciplines. Discipline is the core of a university and the leader of its development. Throughout the world famous universities, not all universities have complete disciplines, but they all have unique first-class disciplines. For example, although the scale of California Institute of Technology is small, it insists on taking mathematics, mechanics and other disciplines as the basis, and has built a number of first-class new disciplines and high-level scientific research institutions. The school's jet propulsion laboratory is the key scientific research base of NASA, and the basic research of missiles, rockets and satellites in the United States also begins here.

? Promoting the cultivation of innovative talents with the construction of first-class teachers as the starting point. The key for a university to become a world-class university is to have a team of teachers with reasonable structure, first-class level and great international influence, and gather a group of world-recognized academic authorities and masters. 85% of the teachers in the world's top 100 universities have obtained doctoral degrees from world-class universities, attracting more than 80% of the world's Nobel Prize and Fields Prize winners, and 2/3 of the scientists have published papers with high citation rate. World-class universities also regard postgraduate training as the top priority of innovative talent training. The ratio of graduate students to undergraduates in many universities is 1: 1, and some even reach 2: 1. For example, Hopkins University in the United States only offered postgraduate education at the beginning of its establishment, and California Institute of Technology became a first-class university in one fell swoop because it took the lead in realizing that the scale of postgraduate students exceeded that of undergraduates.

Take tackling key problems as an opportunity to lead the construction of innovation platform. Most world-class universities set up joint laboratories or R&D centers around major national strategic needs and major scientific and technological projects to solve major problems and key technologies. The University of Wisconsin is a land-grant college in the United States. It actively solves the key problems of local economic construction and encourages teachers to provide consulting services to the state government, making it a first-class university from a "rural" university. During World War II, almost all the high-end research in American high-level universities was devoted to the military field, including the research of atomic bombs, radars and rockets. During the Cold War, the first-class universities in the United States actively established high-level research centers, and formed the Boston Research Center in the East, focusing on Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the west, the San Francisco Research Center was formed with the University of California and California Institute of Technology as the focus, and the Silicon Valley was formed with Stanford University as the center, and a high-tech park was successfully established.

Promote high-quality social services with the construction of high-end think tanks as the port. According to some surveys, about 75% of think tanks in the United States belong to world-class universities. In recent decades, university think tanks have played an important role in American political, economic, social, military, diplomatic, scientific and technological decisions, and a number of famous university think tanks such as the Hoover Institute of Stanford University have emerged. Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs of Princeton University is a model of combining basic research with major strategic research. In 2006, a university think tank published "Building a Free World under the Rule of Law-21Century American National Security Strategy", which is considered as "the most important one" among all the alternatives of American security strategy in the Bush era. University think tanks can often provide macro-decision suggestions in major strategic development directions, and at the same time, through the research of frontier issues, scholars can make breakthroughs in the research of important theoretical issues.