Tsinghua University's campus is in northwest Beijing, on the site of the former imperial gardens of theQing dynasty. The university has 21 schools and 59 departments, with faculties in science, engineering, humanities, law, medicine, history, philosophy, economics, management, education, and art.[7]
Since the university was established in 1911, it has produced notable leaders in science, engineering, politics, business, and academia.[8][9]
The plaque at the entrance ofTsinghua Garden. The garden is among the oldest components of the campus of Tsinghua UniversityA glimpse ofXichun Garden, aQing dynasty garden on Tsinghua University campusBuilt in 1917, the Grand Auditorium with itsJeffersonian architectural design is a centerpiece of the old campus
Tsinghua University was established in Beijing during a tumultuous period of national upheaval and conflicts with foreign powers which culminated in theBoxer Rebellion, an uprising against foreign influence in China. After the suppression of the revolt bya foreign alliance including the United States, the ruling Qing dynasty was required to pay indemnities to alliance members. United States Secretary of StateJohn Hay suggested that the US$30 million Boxer indemnity allotted to the United States was excessive. After much negotiation with Qing ambassadorLiang Cheng, president of the United StatesTheodore Roosevelt obtained approval from the United States Congress in 1909 to reduce the indemnity payment by US$10.8 million, on the condition that the funds would be used as scholarships for Chinese students to study in the United States.[10][11]
Using this fund, theTsinghua College (清華學堂;Qīnghuá Xuétáng) was established in Beijing, on 29 April 1911 on the site of aformer royal garden to serve as a preparatory school for students the government planned to send to the United States.[12] Faculty members for sciences were recruited by theYMCA from the United States, and its graduates transferred directly to American schools asjuniors upon graduation.[citation needed] The motto of Tsinghua, "Self-Discipline and Social Commitment", was derived from a 1914 speech by prominent scholar and faculty memberLiang Qichao, in which he quoted theI Ching to describe a notion of the ideal gentleman.[13]
In 1925, the school established its own four-year undergraduate program and started a research institute on Chinese studies.[14][15][16][17][18] In 1928, the school changed its name to National Tsinghua University.[19]
After the end of theChinese Civil War in 1949, China experienced acommunist revolution leading to the creation of the People's Republic of China. Tsinghua University's then presidentMei Yiqi, along with many professors, fled to Taiwan with the retreatingNationalist government. They established the National Tsing Hua Institute of Nuclear Technology in 1955, which later became theNational Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, an institution independent and distinct from Tsinghua University.[25][26][27]
In 1952, theChinese Communist Partyregrouped the country's higher education institutions in an attempt to build a Soviet style system where each institution specialized in a certain field of study, such as social sciences or natural sciences.[28] Tsinghua University was streamlined into a polytechnic institute with a focus on engineering and the natural sciences.[29]
In 1953, Tsinghua established a political counselor program, becoming the first university to do so following theMinistry of Education's 1952 directive to begin piloting such programs.[30]: 107 As political counselors, new graduates who were also Communist Party members worked as political counselors in managing the student body and student organizations, often simultaneously serving asCommunist Youth League secretaries.[30]: 107 The program was later expanded to other universities following its endorsement by Deng Xiaoping and became further institutionalized across China in the 1990s and 2000s.[30]: 108
From 1966 to 1976, China experienced immense sociopolitical upheaval and instability during theCultural Revolution. Many university students walked out of classrooms at Tsinghua and other institutions, and some went on to join theRed Guards, resulting in the complete shutdown of the university as faculty were persecuted or otherwise unable to teach.[33][34] It was not until 1978, after the Cultural Revolution ended, that the university began to take in students and re-emerge as a force in Chinese politics and society.[35]
During theCriticize Lin, Criticize Confucius campaign of 1973 to 1976, critique groups formed at Tsinghua andPeking University disseminated commentaries under the pseudonym of "Liang Xiao".[36] The pseudonym sounds like a person's name but is ahomophone for "two schools".[36]
In the 1980s, Tsinghua evolved beyond the polytechnic model and incorporated amultidisciplinary system emphasizing collaboration between distinct schools within the broader university environment.[37] Under this system, several schools have been re-incorporated, includingTsinghua Law School, theSchool of Economics and Management, the School of Sciences, the School of Life Sciences, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, theSchool of Public Policy and Management, and the Academy of Arts and Design.[10]
As of 2018, Tsinghua University consists of 20 schools and 58 university departments, 41 research institutes, 35 research centers, and 167 laboratories, including 15 national key laboratories.[41] In September 2006, thePeking Union Medical College, a renowned medical school, was renamed "Peking Union Medical College, Tsinghua University" although it and Tsinghua University are technically separate institutions.[42] The university operates theTsinghua University Press, which publishes academic journals, textbooks, and other scholarly works.[43][44]
The traditional He Tang Yue Se (moonlit pond) is part of the Qing dynasty Prince's Residence and Garden located on the grounds of Tsinghua University
Through its constituent colleges, graduate and professional schools, and other institutes, Tsinghua University offers more than 82 bachelor's degree programs, 80 master's degree programs and 90 PhD programs.[45][46]
In 2014, Tsinghua established Xinya College, a residential liberal arts college, as a pilot project to reform undergraduate education at the university. Modeled after universities in the United States and Europe, Xinya combines general and professional education in a liberal arts tradition, featuring a core curriculum of Chinese and Western literature and civilization studies and required courses in physical education and foreign languages. Furthermore, while most Tsinghua undergraduates must choose a specific major upon entrance, Xinya students declare their majors at the end of freshman year, enabling them to explore several different fields of study.[47]
In December 2014, Tsinghua University established the Advisory Committee of Undergraduate Curriculum (ACUC).[48] It became the first student autonomous organization in mainland China for students to participate in the school's management.[49] The Tsinghua University Academic Committee, which was formally established on 8 July 2015, has stipulated in the committee's charter that students should be consulted through the ACUC for resolutions involving undergraduate students.[50] From then on, Tsinghua commenced a new round of academic reform lasting ever since, including establishing GPA grading system,[51] adding the writing classes, critical thinking classes, second foreign languages classes into curriculum,[52] requiring undergrads to be able to swim before graduation,[53] cooperating with thePeking University on class cross-registration to supplement each other's general education curriculum,[54] reducing fees on class withdraw, transcripts and certificates,[55] and adjusting the graduate school co-terminal admission policies.[56]
In 2016,Schwarzman Scholars was established with almost US$400 million endowment bySteven Schwarzman, the chairman and CEO of theBlackstone Group and other multinational corporations and global leaders.Schwarzman Scholars annually selects 100–200 scholars across the world to enroll in a one-year fully-funded master's degree leadership program designed to cultivate the next generation of global leaders. 40% students are selected from the United States, 20% students are selected from China, 40% are selected from rest of the world. These scholars reside on the university campus atSchwarzman College, a residential college built specifically for the program.[57][58]
In 2016, Tsinghua's expenditures were RMB 13.7 billion (US$3.57 billion at purchasing power parity), the largest budget of any university in China.[59] According to a 2018Financial Times report, Tsinghua University has been linked tocyber-espionage.[60]
In 2024, Tsinghua announced that its office of the university president had merged into the university'sChinese Communist Party committee, which would directly administer the university henceforth.[61]
Tsinghua University engages in extensive research and offers 51 bachelor's degree programs, 139 master's degree programs, and 107 doctoral programs through 20 colleges and 57 departments covering a broad range of subjects,[62] including science, engineering, arts and literature, social sciences, law, medicine.[63] Along with its membership in the C9 League, Tsinghua University affiliations include theAssociation of Pacific Rim Universities,[64] a group of 50 leading Asian and American universities,Washington University in St. Louis's McDonnell International Scholars Academy, a group of 35 premier global universities,[65] and theAssociation of East Asian Research Universities, a 17-member research collaboration network of top regional institutions.[66] Tsinghua is an associate member of theConsortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research (CLUSTER).[67] Tsinghua is a member of a Low Carbon Energy University Alliance (LCEUA), together with the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[68][69]
Admission to Tsinghua for both undergraduate and graduate schools is extremely competitive. Undergraduate admissions for domestic students is decided through thegaokao, the Chinese national college entrance exam, which allows students to list Tsinghua University among their preferred college choices. While selectivity varies by province, the sheer number of high school students applying for college each year has resulted in overall acceptance rates far lower than 0.1% of all test takers.[70]
Admission to Tsinghua's graduate schools is also very competitive. Only about 16% of MBA applicants are admitted each year.[71]
Research at Tsinghua University is mainly supported by government funding from national programs and special projects. In the areas of science and technology, funding from these sources totals over 20 billion yuan, which subsidizes more than 1,400 projects every year conducted by the university. With the prospective increase of state investment in science and technology, research at Tsinghua is projected to receive more financial support from the state.[72]
In 2007, Tsinghua was granted security clearance to conduct classified research of military interest.[73]
Each year, the university hosts the Intellectual Property Summer Institute in cooperation withFranklin Pierce Law Center ofConcord, New Hampshire.[74]
The scientific research institutions in Tsinghua University are divided into three categories, including government-approved institutions, institutions independently established by the university and institutions jointly established by the university and independent legal entities outside the university.
As of 31 December 2022, Tsinghua University has 428 university-level scientific research institutions in operation.[75]
Tsinghua University ranked No. 1 in China, the whole of Asia-Oceania region andemerging countries according to theTimes Higher Education,[92][93][94]with its industry income, research, and teaching performance indicator placed at 1st, 4th and 9th respectively in the world.[95] Internationally, Tsinghua was regarded as the most reputable Chinese university by theTimes Higher Education World Reputation Rankings where, it has ranked 8th globally and 1st in the Asia-Pacific.[96]
Since 2013, Tsinghua also topped the newly created regionalQS BRICS University Rankings.[99] Tsinghua graduates are highly desired worldwide; in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2017, Tsinghua was ranked 3rd in the world and 1st in the whole ofAfro-Eurasia & Oceania region.[100] In 2020, Tsinghua was ranked 15th in the world byQS World University Rankings,[101] and ranked 6th globally and 1st in Asia in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings.[102]
Tsinghua was the best-ranked university in the Asia-Pacific and the 12th worldwide in 2025/2026 in terms of aggregate performance by the four widely observed university rankings (THE+ARWU+QS+US News), as reported by the BlueSky Ranking of University Rankings.[105]
As of 2024, it ranked 3rd among the universities around the world bySCImago Institutions Rankings.[106] TheNature Index 2025 Annual Tables byNature Research ranked Tsinghua 6th among the leading universities globally for the high quality of research publications in natural science.[107]
For sciences in general, the 2024CWTS Leiden Ranking ranked Tsinghua University 3rd in the world after Harvard and Stanford based on the number of their scientific publications belonging to the top 1% in their fields.[108] In November 2024,Clarivate Analytics ranked Tsinghua second in Afro-Eurasia & Oceania regions afterChinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and 4th in the world after (CAS, Harvard, and Stanford) for most cited researchers.[109]
As of 2021, it ranked 6th globally in "Education", 7th in "Clinical, pre-clinical and Health", 11th in "Business and Economics", 12th in "Computer Science", 13th in "Life Science", 17th in "Engineering and Technology", 18th in "Physical Science", 33th in "Social Science", 37th in "Law", and 40th in "Arts and Humanities" by theTimes Higher Education Rankings by Subjects, which are historical strengths for Tsinghua.[110][111]
Since 2015, Tsinghua University has overtaken the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to top the list of Best Global Universities for Engineering published by theU.S. News & World Report and as of 2024, it also ranked number one globally in 9 subjects: "Artificial Intelligence","Chemical Engineering", "Chemistry", "Computer Science", "Energy and Fuels", "Engineering", "Environment Engineering", "Environment/Ecology" and "Material Science".[112][113]
As of 2024, theU.S. News & World Report also placed "Civil Engineering", "Condensed Matter Physics", "Electrical and Electronic Engineering", "Geosciences", "Green and Sustainable Science and Technology", "Mechanical Engineering", "Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences", "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology", "Optics", "Physical Chemistry", "Physics" and "Water Resources" at Tsinghua in the global Top 10 universities.[113]
In theARWU's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020, Tsinghua ranks in the world's top five universities in "Telecommunication Engineering", "Instruments Science & Technology", "Civil Engineering", "Chemical Engineering", "Mechanical Engineering", "Nanoscience & Nanotechnology", "Energy Science & Engineering", and "Transportation Science & Technology" and falls within the global top 10 for "Electrical & Electronic Engineering", "Computer Science & Engineering", "Materials Science & Engineering", "Environmental Science & Engineering", and "Water Resources".[114]
The Department of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) was established in 1927.
In 1952, Tsinghua DMS was merged with thePeking University Department of Mathematical Sciences. Then in 1979 it was renamed "Department of Applied Mathematics", and renamed again in 1999 to its current title.
Tsinghua DMS has three institutes at present, the institute ofPure Mathematics which has 27 faculty members, the Institute ofApplied Mathematics andProbability and Statistics which has 27 faculty members, and the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Operations Research which has 20 faculty members. There are currently about 400 undergraduate students and 200graduate students.
The Department of Precision Instrument was called the Department of Precision Instrument and Machine Manufacturing in 1960 when it was separated out from the Department of Machine Manufacturing to be an independent department. Later, in 1971, it was renamed the Department of Precision Instrument.[157] The mission of the Department of Precision Instrument at Tsinghua University, as its dean said, is "supporting the national development and improving the people's well-being."[158]
Research in the Department of Precision Instrument is divided to four main parts, led by its four research institutes: the Institute of Opto-electronic Engineering, the Institute of Instrument Science and Technology, the Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology, and the Center for Photonics and Electronics.[159] At the same time, the Department of Precision Instrument has three key laboratories: the State Key Laboratory of Tribology, the State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, and the Key Laboratory of High-accuracy Inertial Instrument and System. It also has two national engineering research centers, which are the National Engineering Research Center of Optical Disk and the CIMS National Engineering Research Center.[157]
The Institute of Opto-electronic Engineering The Institute of Opto-electronic Engineering (IOEE) was established in 1958. It obtained the Chinese government's authorization to offer PhD program in 1981 and the approval to build the post-doctoral research site in 1988. The research of the IOEE covers opto-electronic instruments, precision metrology and measurement, modern optical information processing, the theory and components of binary optics, and the birefringent frequency-splitting lasers. Several famous scientists work in the IOEE, including Professor Guofan Jin, anacademician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Professor Kegong Zhao, formerly the president of the Chinese National Institute of Metrology.[160][161]
The Institute of Instrument Science and Technology The Institute of Instrument Science and Technology is the most important institute in the State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology and Instrument Science at Tsinghua University. The institute is equipped with advanced instruments and facilities, and its research has included every major area in modern instrument science and technology. Up to 2012, the institute have produced over 1500 publications, more than 100 patents, and acquired many significant awards.[162]
The Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology The Engineering Research Center for Navigation Technology is a relatively young institute in the Department of Precision Instrument which was established in 2000, with the intention to "[pursue] excellence in the research and development in the field of high-accuracy inertial instruments and navigation technology, as well as in MEMS inertial sensor fields, and to provide advanced training for future scientists and engineers in the field of inertial technology." Its research interests cover high-accuracy inertial instruments and navigation technology,MEMS inertial sensors and systems, and precise electro-mechanical control systems and their application. As of 2012, the area of the center is 2900 square meters, including approximately 550 square meters of clean rooms. Equipment and instruments in this center are worth over 50 million RMB (US$7.56 million).[163][failed verification]
The Center for Photonics and Electronics The center forPhotonics andElectronics works on advanced laser and photonic technology. It houses 200 square meters of clean rooms and very modern laser instruments and equipment. The research of this Center covers solid-state laser technology,fiber laser technology, active optics technology, and laser detection technology. The center has published more than published more than 100 scientific papers including 40 indexed by SCI, has 18 national patents, and also frequently exchange visits and academic conferences with foreign scholars.[164]
The SKLT has one central laboratory and four sub-laboratories. It has been awarded numerous awards, including "two National Natural Science Awards, two National Invention Awards, one National Award for Science and Technology Progress, two National Excellent Science Book Awards, 25 awards from ministries or provinces of China, Edmond E. Bisson Award in 2003 from STLE, the 2008 PE Publishing Prize by the Editor and Editorial Board of the Journal of Engineering Tribology." Moreover, China's Ministry of Education recognized the SKLT as one of the creative groups in 2005, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China recognized the SKLT as one of the creative research groups in 2007.[165][166] The TRibology Science Fund of the Key Laboratory of Tribology cooperates with National Natural Science Foundation of China in founding research projects in various applied sciences and technologies.[167][168][169]
Currently, there are two disciplines in the Department of Precision Instrument: the discipline of the instrumental science and technology of precision instrument and mechanology and the discipline of optical engineering.[157][170]
There are six teaching laboratories or centers which serve significant roles in undergraduate and graduate education in the Department of Precision Instrument. They are:
The Teaching Lab of Manufacturing Engineering
The CAD Teaching Centre
The Engineering Graphics Teaching Laboratory
The Creative Machine Design Teaching Laboratory
The Experimentation Teaching Center for Measurement and Control Technology
The Teaching Laboratory of Optics and Length Measurement[171][172]
The department provides more than 40 courses of the undergraduate level and 25 courses of the graduate level.[173]
School of Life Sciences was first established in 1926 under the name Department of Biology.[174][175][176] Botanist Qian Chongshu took up the first dean.[177]
Old building of the School of Life Sciences, the Tsinghua Biology Hall
During the nationwide reorganization of universities in the early 1950s, the Department of Biology was merged into other universities, namely Peking University etc., resulting in a vacancy in the field of biological research in Tsinghua for almost 30 years.[178]
In June 1984, decisions were made about the reestablishment of the Department of Biology, and the department officially reopened in September. During the reestablishment the Department of Biology of Peking University, the Institute of Biophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and many other institutes as well as biologists provided valuable support and help. The department changed its name to the current name in September 2009. As of 2013, structural biologist and foreign associate of National Academy of Sciences of United States[179] Dr. Wang Hongwei (王宏伟) is the current dean of School of Life Sciences. The school currently has 129 professors and employees, around 600 undergraduates (including the candidates of Tsinghua University –Peking Union Medical College joint MD program).[180]
The Peking Union Medical College was established in 1917 by theRockefeller Foundation and was modeled on the US medical education system. Tsinghua first established its medical school in 2001 and in 2006, Tsinghua's medical school merged with thePeking Union Medical College renaming it "Peking Union Medical College, Tsinghua University". The school remains the top ranked medical school and general hospital in China according to CUCAS in 2015.[181] The Peking Union Medical College is also the only medical school to be affiliated with theChinese Academy of Medical Sciences. It runs one of the most competitive medical programs in the country, accepting 90 students a year into its 8-year MD program. Students in the 8-year program spend 2.5 years at Tsinghua studying premedical education before moving onto Peking Union Medical College to complete the last 5.5 years in clinical medicine, basic medical education and research.[182]
The Tsinghua School of Journalism and Communication (TSJC) was established in April 2002. Its predecessor was Communication Studies in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and its establishment of coincides with the development of media increasingly influencing world affairs in a time of fast-growing globalization. The school's research fields include International Communication, Film and Television Studies, New Media Studies, Media Operation and Management, and Business Journalism and are based on comprehensive academic research in journalism and communication theories. The objective of the school is to bring full advantage of Tsinghua University's comprehensive academic structure to Chinese and international media, to construct a first-rate discipline in journalism and communication studies, to cultivate talented professionals in the field and to explore advanced concepts in journalism and communication. The school also offers a two-year graduate program in international business journalism, sponsored byBloomberg L.P. and theInternational Center for Journalists (ICFJ), that trains talented students and media professionals from around the globe in financial media and corporate communication.[183]
The school has five research-oriented centers to organize and conduct academic research activities. They are: Center for International Communications Studies, Center for New Media Studies, Center for Film and Television Studies, Center for Media Management Studies and Center for Cultural Industry Studies.[183]
The legal studies at Tsinghua University can be dated back to the "Tsinghua College" era (1911–1929), where many students were sent to universities in western countries for legal studies. Graduating from institutions such asColumbia,Yale, andHarvard, those Tsinghua alumni have played an important role in areas of law and diplomacy. Famous legal scholars Tuan-Sheng Ch'ien,[184] Yan Shutang (燕树棠), Wang Huacheng (王化成),Kung Chuan Hsiao (萧公权),[185] Pu Xuefeng (浦薛凤), Mei Ju'ao (梅汝璈),[186] Xiang Zhejun (向哲浚) and diplomat Tang Yueliang (唐悦良)[187] are all graduates from Tsinghua College or went to study abroad after passing exams in Tsinghua College.[citation needed]
Tsinghua University School of Law was established in 1929 after Tsinghua College was renamed Tsinghua University. Legal education in Tsinghua University at the time focused on international affairs and Chinese legal studies. Courses on political science and economics could also be found on students' curriculum. Before the Japanese army invaded Beijing in 1937, the School of Law developed greatly. Many Chinese legal scholars graduated during that era, including Wang Tieya (王铁崖), Gong Xiangrui (龚祥瑞) and Lou Bangyan (楼邦彦).[188]
In 1952, in response tothe government policy of turning Tsinghua University into an engineering-focused university, the law school was dismissed; the faculty were appointed to other universities, including Peking University and Peking College of Political Science and Law (the predecessor of China University of Political Science and Law).[189] Until 1995, there was no formal "school of law" at Tsinghua University, yet courses on law were still taught in Tsinghua University from the early 1980s.[190]
On 8 September 1995, the Tsinghua University Department of Law was formally re-established; on 25 April 1999, the 88th anniversary of Tsinghua University, the university formally changed the department into the "School of Law". The "new" law school inherited the spirit of the "old" law school and has endeavored to add international factors to its students' curriculum. Due to its outstanding faculty members and students, the Tsinghua University School of Law has risen to become one of the leading law schools in China and since 2011,[191] has been consistently ranked as the best or the second-best law school in mainland China by QS World University Rankings.[192]
The Graduate School at Shenzhen was jointly founded by Tsinghua University and the Shenzhen Municipal Government. The school is directly affiliated with Tsinghua University in Beijing. The campus is located in the University Town of Shenzhen since 18 October 2003.[193]The Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, was jointly founded by Tsinghua University and the Shenzhen Municipal Government for cultivating top level professionals and carrying out scientific and technological innovations.[194][195][196]The academic divisions are the following:
Division of Life Science and Health
Division of Energy and Environment
Division of Information Science and Technology
Division of Logistics and Transportation
Division of Advanced Manufacturing
Division of Social Sciences and Management
Division of Ocean Science and Technology[197][198]
TheSecond Gate is a landmark on the Tsinghua University campusThe Mechanical Engineering Hall
The campus of Tsinghua University is located in northwest Beijing, in theHaidian district.[199][200] Tsinghua University's campus was named one of the most beautiful college campuses in the world by a panel of architects and campus designers inForbes in 2010;[201] it was the only university in Asia on the list.[202][203]
Numerous architects were involved in the designing of buildings on the campus. American architectHenry Killam Murphy (1877–1954), a Yale graduate, designed the Grand Auditorium, the Roosevelt Memorial Gymnasium, the Science Building and the east side of the Old Library.[204]Yang Tingbao designed the Observatory, the Life Sciences building, the Mingzhai of the student dormitory buildings and the middle and west side of the Old Library. Shen Liyuan designed the Mechanical Engineering Hall, the Chemistry Hall and the Aviation Hall. Zhuang Jun designed the Civil Engineering Hall, Zhaolan Yuan, and the West Dormitories. T. Chuang, a 1914 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, helped design the campus grounds of the Tsinghua University with influences ofNeoclassical andPalladian architectural styles and architectures.[205] Zhang Bo designed the Shengyinyuan. Other notable 20th-century Chinese architects such asLi Daozeng, Zhou Weiquan, Wang Guoyu and Guan Zhaoye have all designed various buildings on the Tsinghua University campus.
The Tsinghua History Museum covers a construction area of 5,060 m2.[207] A collection of old documents, pictures, artworks, maps, graphics, videos and music tells the visitors the history of Tsinghua University. The exhibition also pays tribute to the people who contributed to the development of the institution. The university also operates its own art museum, the Tsinghua University Art Museum, which derives its collection from the university's Academy of Arts & Design since 1956.
Entrance to "工 Shape Hall", the former Qing Prince's Mansion and the current office of the president
Sculptural artworks on the campus
Tsinghua campus scenery
A teaching and protected heritage building (the former Tsinghua College)
Tsinghua University has produced many notable graduates, especially in political sphere, academic field and industry.[208]Forbes has referred to Tsinghua as China's "power factory", citing the amount of senior Chinese politicians the university has produced.[209]
President of ChinaXi Jinping (Chemical Engineering 1979)
Former president of ChinaHu Jintao(Hydraulic Engineering 1964)
Former premier of ChinaZhu Rongji(Electrical Engineering 1951)
Tsinghua is known for having educated the most billionaires of any university in China, and since 2017 counts 152 billionaires amongst its alumni.[226] These include billionairesSun Hongbin (real estate),[227] chairman ofGoertekJiang Bin (components),[228]Xu Hang (medical devices),[229] andZhang Zetian (e-commerce),[230] among others.
The termTsinghua clique refers to a group of Chinese Communist Party politicians that have graduated from Tsinghua University. They are members of thefourth generation of Chinese leadership, and are purported to hold reformist and hesitantly pro-democratic ideas (a number have studied in the United States following graduation from Tsinghua, and some are said to be influenced by the reform ideals ofHu Yaobang). In the PRC, their ascendance to power began in 2008 at the17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.[232]
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