Tsinghua University (THU; simplified Chinese: 清华大学; traditional Chinese: 清華大學; pinyin: Qīnghuá Dàxué), is a university in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Tsinghua University was established in 1911, originally under the name “Tsinghua Xuetang”. The school was renamed the "Tsinghua School" in 1912. The university section was founded in 1925. The name “National Tsinghua University” was adopted in 1928. With the motto of Self-Discipline and Social Commitment and the spirit of Facta Non Verba in Latin, Tsinghua University dedicate itself to the well-being of Chinese society and to world development. Today, most national and international rankings place Tsinghua as one of the best universities in China.
History
The Tsinghua College (清華學堂 Qīnghuá Xuétáng) was established in Beijing, China in 1911 on the site of a former royal garden belonging to a prince, and was funded by the Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship Program which consisted of money from indemnities which China paid the United States after the Boxer Rebellion. It was first a preparatory school for students later sent by the government to study in the United States. The faculty members for sciences were recruited by the YMCA from the United States and its graduates transferred directly to American schools as juniors upon graduation. In 1925, the school established its College Department and started its research institute on Chinese Study.
In 1928, the authority officially changed its name to National Tsing Hua University (NTHU).
During the Second World War in 1937, Tsinghua University along with Peking University and Nankai University, merged to form Changsha Temporary University in Changsha, and later National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming of Yunnan province. After the war, Tsinghua moved back to Beijing and resumed its operation.
After the communist victory at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 which led to the creation of the People's Republic of China (PRC), Tsinghua University's President Mei Yi-Qi, followed by some professors, went to Taiwan where they established the National Tsing Hua Institute of Nuclear Technology in 1955, which later became National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan.
The traditional He Tang Yue Se (moonlit pond) is part of the Qing Dynasty Prince's Residence and Garden located at the grounds of the Tsinghua University
In 1952, China government regrouped the country's higher education institutions in an attempt to build a Soviet style system, with individual institutions tending to specialise in a certain field of study. Tsinghua University was disassembled, losing its law school, school of agriculture, school of sciences and humanities, and became a polytechnic engineering university. Even so, Tsinghua University remained in the top tier schools in China. In many years following this regroup, the school was often referred to as the "MIT of China." But since the 1980s, the university began to incorporate a multidisciplinary system. As a result, several schools were built and rebuilt. These included the School of Sciences, School of Business and Management, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Law, School of Public Policy and Management, and the Academy of Arts and Design.
During the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the university became a battlefield between different sects of Mao's Red Guards and a stronghold of the radicals. It did not resume its normal operation until 1977 when the Cultural Revolution officially ended.
Since its establishment, the university has enjoyed rich government funding and policy support which greatly improved its facilities. From 1978 Tsinghua re-establishes the departments in sciences, economics, management, and the humanities. Both Tsinghua undergraduate and graduate schools have been recognized nationally, ranking first in the National Evaluation of Graduate Schools.
Today
Most national and international university rankings place Tsinghua as one of the best universities in China. Admission to Tsinghua is extremely competitive. Every year, a vast majority of applicants scoring the highest in the National Entrance Exams (the Chinese equivalent to the American SAT) choose Tsinghua. In 2003, 215 out of 300 students who scored the top 10 in the 30 tested provinces and regions chose Tsinghua and 28 of the 30 top scorers in each province and region chose the university. The majority of selected students are national scholars and among the brightest high school graduates in the country. Admissions to its graduate schools are also daunting by any measure. For instance, only 16% of MBA applicants are admitted; making admissions more competitive than MIT's MBA at 20% and tying with the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton MBA program. The current Chinese president, Hu Jintao, is a former Tsinghua student who graduated with a degree in hydraulic engineering in 1964. The University's Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology is on a separate campus in a northern suburb of Beijing.
Tsinghua has a reputation for having some of the most distinguished guest speakers of any university in the world, with public figures such as Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, Carlos Ghosn, Henry Paulson etc, as guest speakers at the university.
As of 2003, Tsinghua University had 12 colleges and 48 departments, 41 research institutes, 35 research centers, and 167 laboratories, including 15 national key laboratories. In September 2006, Peking Union Medical College was renamed to Peking Union Medical College, Tsinghua University. The university offers 51 bachelor's degree programs, 139 master's degree programs and 107 Ph.D. programs. Recently, Tsinghua has become the first Chinese university to offer a Master of Laws program in American law, through a cooperative venture with the Temple University Beasley School of Law. The university is a member of LAOTSE, an international network of leading universities in Europe and Asia. Each year, the University celebrates the Intellectual Property Summer Institute in cooperation with Franklin Pierce Law Center of Concord, New Hampshire. It has its own editorial, Tsinghua University Press.
Campus
The campus of Tsinghua University is located in northwest Beijing, in the Haidian district which was designated for universities and other academic institutes.
It is located on the former site of Qing Dynasty royal gardens and retains Chinese-style landscaping as well as some traditional buildings, but many of its buildings are also in the Western-style, reflecting the American influence in its history[citation needed]. Along with its rival the Peking University, it is known throughout China for having one of the most beautiful campuses.
The university's architect T. Chuang, a 1914 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, modeled his designs for the quadrangle and auditorium of Tsinghua on the Illinois campus, specifically imitating Foellinger Auditorium, located on the quad at the University of Illinois. The University's Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology is on a separate campus in a northern suburb of Beijing.
School of Economics and Management
The Tsinghua School of Economics and Management (SEM) is consistently ranked first among business schools in China.[14] It is currently the only mainland Chinese institution outside of Hong Kong to have achieved the prestigious AACSB and EQUIS accreditations for its business and accounting programs. Founded in 1984, SEM was the first economics and management school in China. Its Founding Dean, Professor ZHU Rongji, later became the fifth Premier of the People’s Republic of China. SEM is now among the premier business schools in Asia and enjoys world-class faculty, students, and research centers. It is the successor to Tsinghua University's Department of Economics, which was established in 1926. Since then, the school has built a powerful and influential alumni network. SEM has the largest student-exchange program in China (with more than 50 world-class business schools), and also maintains strong relationships with both domestic and multinational corporations.
SEM's International MBA program is one of the most prestigious such programs in the People's Republic of China. The entirely English program is offered in collaboration with the MIT Sloan School of Management. The school provides more than 100 MBA courses per year. Upon finishing their required courses, students can select from curricula of different tracks (enterprise management, finance and banking, enterprise innovation and management, accounting analysis and management control, e-commerce, international business administration, etc.). After two years of business and leadership education, students obtain a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Tsinghua University as well as both a certificate from the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Sloan affiliate alumni status. Besides the M.I.T.-Tsinghua International MBA program, international students with Chinese-language skills can also choose to apply to the full-time MBA and the part-time MBA.
SEM also offers an EMBA program in partnership with INSEAD. The Tsinghua-INSEAD Dual Degree Executive MBA program was initiated in 2006, and is the first program of its kind in China combining international business education with a focus on Asia. The program’s first class was opened in the summer of 2007. It targets highly motivated, internationally minded managers with substantial business experience. The program is taught jointly by the two schools’ faculties and focuses on developing the participants’ leadership skills, building their global mindsets, and honing their managerial talents. It combines the analytical rigor of an MBA with the managerial relevance of executive education. Upon successful completion of the program, participants are awarded two prestigious degrees: an EMBA degree by Tsinghua University and an MBA for Executives degree by INSEAD. Graduates become alumni of the two schools
Besides excellent professional programs like the MBA, SEM offers strong academic programs in a variety of disciplines. There are 8 majors in SEM, namely: management science and engineering, finance, economics, accounting, corporation strategy and policy, marketing, human resources management, and technology economics and management. The school also operates a number of prominent research centers, including: the Research Center for Contemporary Management, the Research Center for Technological Innovation, the National Entrepreneurship Research Center, the China Center for Financial Research, the National Center for Economic Research, the China Retail Research Center, the China Business Research Center, the Center for China in the World Economy, the Research Center for Contemporary Management and Technological Innovation, and the China Insurance and Risk Management Research Center.
Today both SEM's professional and academic programs are considered the premier training ground for China's business leaders, and SEM is one of three elite Chinese business schools gaining international recognition.
Academic Reputation
Chinese domestic rankings
Ranked 1 in China by China's Education Center 2006 and 2007
Ranked 1 in China by Shenzen Education Network 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
Ranked 1 in China by China University Ranking 2008[26]
Ranked 1 in China by Shanghai Institute of Educational Science (SIES) Ranking 2004
Ranked 1 in China by Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (IHE-SJTU) 2007 and 2006 and 2005 and 2004[31] and 2003
Ranked 1 in China by University Metrics 2006
Ranked 4 in China by Mines ParisTech 2007
Ranked 2 in China by webometrics 2008
Ranked 2 in China by THES - QS World University Rankings 2007, ranked 2 in China 2006 and 2005
International Rankings
Ranked 151-202 Worldwide in the Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2007, #151-200 in 2006 #153-202 in 2005 #202-301 in 2004 and #202-301 in 2003
Ranked 247 Worldwide by University Metrics 2006
Ranked 214 Worldwide by Mines ParisTech 2007
Ranked 238 Worldwide by webometrics 2008
Ranked 40 by Worldwide by THES - QS World University Rankings 2007, #28 Worldwide in 2006 and #62 Worldwide in 2005
Schools and Departments
School of Architecture
- Department of Architecture
- Department of Urban Planning & Design
- Department of Building Science
- Department of Landscape Architecture
School of Civil Engineering
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Department of Hydraulic Engineering
- Department of Construction Management
School of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology
- Department of Thermal Engineering
- Department of Automotive Engineering
- Department of Industrial Engineering
School of Aerospace
- Department of Engineering Mechanics
- Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics Engineering
School of Information Science and Technology
- Department of Electronic Engineering
- Department of Computer Science and Technology
- Department of Automation
- Institute of Microelectronics
- Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics
- School of Software
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Engineering Physics
Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
School of Sciences
- Department of Mathematical Sciences
- Department of Physics
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology
School of Marxism
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Chinese Language and Literature
- Department of Foreign Languages
- Department of History
- Department of Sociology
- Department of Political Science
- Department of International Relations
- Department of Psychology
School of Economics and Management
- Department of Management Science and Engineering
- Department of Economics
- Department of Finance
- Department of Accounting
- Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Department of Human Resources and Organizational Behavior
- Department of Business Strategy and Policy
- Department of Marketing
School of Public Policy & Management
School of law
Academy of Arts and Design
- Department of Art History
- Department of Industrial Design
- Department of Environmental Art Design
- Department of Ceramic Design
- Department of Visual Communication Design
- Department of Textile and Fashion Design
- Department of Art and Crafts
- Department of Painting
- Department of Sculpture
- Department of Information Art & Design
School of Medicine
- Department of Medical Science
- Department of Pharmaceutical Science
- Department of Biomedical Engineering
School of Journalism and Communication
Institute of Nuclear And New Energy Technology
Department of Physical Education
Tsinghua University (THU) was ranked 56th in the 2008 THES-QS World University Ranking.
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