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Tsinghua University 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 and the name “National Tsinghua University” adopted in 1928. With a motto of Self-Discipline and Social Commitment and in the spirit of the Latin Facta Non Verba, Tsinghua University is dedicated to academic excellence, the well-being of Chinese society and to global development. Today, most national and international rankings place Tsinghua as one of the best universities in China.

Tongji University is one of the leading universities of Peoples Republic of China, connected directly under State Ministry of Education. It offers degree programs on undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels. The University has School of Sciences, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Civil Engineering, Mechanical School, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Material Science and Engineering, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, School of Traffic and Transportation, Medical School, School of Liberal Arts and Law, School of Foreign Languages, School of Economics and Management, School of Software Engineering, School of Ocean and Earth Science. In addition, there are Institute of Continuing Education, Institute of Higher Technology, Institute of Vocational and Technical Education, Institute of E-Education, Women's College, Institute of Automobile Marketing and Sino-German Institute which is authorized by respective governments to run postgraduate courses. There are also six university hospitals located in different campuses. The university has over 35,000 students. There are over 4200 academic staff, over 710 professors and 1500 associate professors, among which are members of Chinese Academy of Science and Chinese Academy of Engineering. The university offers diverse courses in 82 Bachelors, 218 Masters, 94 PhD programs and 16 post doctoral stations.There are 22 state key laboratories and engineering research centers. Leading departments: Medicine, Engineering, Architecture, Planning, Design, Science, Innovation

HUST was founded on May 26, 2000 as a result of the merger of the former Huazhong University of Science and Technology (founded in 1952 as Huazhong Institute of Technology (HIT) and Known as China's MIT), Tongji Medical University (founded in 1907 by a German Doctor Paulun Erich and Known as China's best Prefered Medical University) and Wuhan Urban Construction Institute (founded in 1952). The university has gained the rapidest development among universities of China in the past 60 years and has been hailed as "the epitome of the development of China's higher education". HUST has groups of distinguished research faculty and teaching staff. 900 of the more than 3000 teachers are professors, and 1200 are associate professors. The number of current enrolled students is around 60, 000, of which more than 34,000 are undergraduate students, 19, 000 are graduate students. HUST has entered into partnerships with more than 100 renowned universities and research institutions. Annually over 1,500 famous scholars and experts come to visit HUST and give lectures. At present, more than 2,000 international students from 120 countries are studying at HUST.