Mei Yiqi has served Tsinghua for nearly half a century from professor to principal, which is rare in the history of Chinese and foreign education. After he became the president of Tsinghua, he created the golden age of Tsinghua, improved the quality and reputation of Tsinghua in an all-round way, and made great achievements. He is known as the "lifelong principal" of Tsinghua.

Mei Yiqi personally wrote the school motto for the Tsinghua school magazine: "Self-improvement, kindness and morality." He inherited Tsinghua University's traditional ethos of academic independence from politics, and made this good ethos continue to this day. It can be said that President Mei Yiqi's "example is more important than words" has created a new era in the history of Tsinghua's development, and he himself has been highly praised by teachers and students in Tsinghua: "When it comes to Mei Yiqi, it is Tsinghua." Become a veritable business card of Tsinghua University.