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32 unusual facts about Tsinghua University


Affiliated High School of South China Normal University

Every Year, about 20 students are accepted by the two top Universities in China: Tsinghua and PKU.

Andrea Pasinetti

He founded Teach For China in 2008 during a year of study at Tsinghua University's Inter-University Program.

Andrew Tylecote

He is a Visiting Professor at the Center for Research on Technological Innovation at Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Barbara Lawton

There, she signed a student exchange agreement between the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Bruce K. Ferguson

He has served as visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin and Tsinghua University in Beijing, and has lectured at Cornell, Berkeley, Harvard, and 20 other universities.

Bruce Thompson

He has spoken at Peking University, Tsinghua University, University of International Business and Economics, and Central University of Finance and Economics between June 2011 and October 2012.

Chris Bart

In the past, Bart has lectured at institutions around the world, including the University of Cape Town, South Africa, Cranfield Institute of Technology, the UK, Monash University, Australia, the Czech Management Center and both Fudan and Tsinghua Universities in China.

Eric Chan

During the year of his services, he completed a Bachelor degree in Law at Tsinghua University.

Hong Kong Drifts

Since then, a “battle” between the Universities in Hong Kong and the top Universities in mainland including Peking University and Tsinghua University has become increasingly fierce.

Hua Jianmin

Born in Shanghai, Hua Jianmin graduated from department of dynamics of Tsinghua University.

International Aerial Robotics Competition

In August 2013, a team from Tsinghua University completed the entire sixth mission, thereby winning $40,000.

Jeffersonian architecture

An example of Jeffersonian architecture outside the United States can be found in one of China's top universities, Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Jie Tang

Jie Tang is an associate professor at Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University.

John G. Hughes

He has initiated a large number of successful research collaborations with prestigious institutions including the Max-Planck Institutes, Carnegie-Mellon University, MIT and Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Lee Yi Shyan

Lee completed an executive management programme at Harvard Business School in 1997, and a management programme at Tsinghua University in 2001.

Li Xiaolin

Li obtained a Master of Engineering degree in Power System and Automation from Tsinghua University.

Liu Yongqing

Hu Jintao and Liu Yongqing have two grown children – a son named Hu Haifeng and a daughter named Hu Haiqing, both of whom were educated at the Tsinghua University.

Mao Yuanxin

In 1960, Mao Yuanxin was admitted to Tsinghua University, then transferred to the PLA Institute of Military Engineering and became politically important during the Cultural Revolution.

Miles Young

Young is a co-founder of the Ogilvy-Tsinghua Programme for Public Branding, a joint venture with Tsinghua University, Beijing, and is a member of the Advisory Board of Tsinghua University.

Open64

The 2010 Open64 Developers Forum describes projects done at Absoft, AMD, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fudan University, HP, National Tsing Hua University, Nvidia, Tensilica, Tsinghua University, and University of Houston.

P.H. Yu

and the recent annual China-U.S. Senior Officials Training session at the Tsinghua University, where he led a discussion on the role of media and ideology in US-China relations, with US officials from the Department of State, Defense, Homeland Security and the Navy.

Production Systems Engineering

At present, this course has been taught in the US (the University of Michigan, University of Kentucky, University of Wisconsin–Madison,and University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), China (Tsinghua University), Israel (Technion), Germany (RWTH Aachen University) and Sweden (Chalmers University of Technology).

Qian Zhongshu

Despite failing in mathematics, Qian was accepted into the Department of Foreign Languages of Tsinghua University in 1929 because of his excellent performance in Chinese and English languages.

Ruan Lufei

Ruan began studying at Tsinghua University in 2005, and is now a doctoral candidate in the field of Accounting at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.

Seymour Topping

He has also served in various administrative capacities, including President of the International Advisory Board of the School of Journalism at Tsinghua University, President of Emeritus Professors In Columbia, President of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and Chairman of the ASNE's Committee on International Communication.

Sharon Hom

She was a Fulbright Scholar in China (1986–88), served on the U.S.-China Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China (CLEEC) (1990–2000), and was a faculty member and program director for the U.S. Clinical Legal Education Workshop convened at Tsinghua University School of Law (2000).

SMTH

Tsinghua University, a university located in Beijing with specialism in engineering disciplines

Taizhou high school

He graduated from Taizhou senior high school in 1959, and then went to Tsinghua University for further study.

Wehhui Tom Liu

He obtained his bachelor degree from Nanjing Medical University and his master's degree from Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tsinghua University, then worked as a surgeon at the Cancer Institute & Hospital and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.

Wu Bangguo

He entered Tsinghua University in 1960, majoring in electron tube engineering at the Department of Radio Electronics, where he graduated in 1967.

Yu Pingbo

In 1935, he founded the Tsinghua Valley Music Society (清華谷音社 Qinghuá Gŭyīnshè) at Qinghuayuan (清華園, "Tsinghua Gardens") to popularise his Kūnqŭ compositions.

Zhang Zuoyi

Zhang Zuoyi (born November, 1962, Fujian Province) has been Director of the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) at Tsinghua University since 2001.


Daqing No.1 Middle School

Since 2001, over 1000 students were admitted into Peking University, Tsinghua University, University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, University of Toronto and other top universities in the world.

Education in Beijing

Beijing is home to a great number of colleges and universities, including several well-regarded universities of international stature, such as Peking University and Tsinghua University (two of the National Key Universities).

Global Environmental Institute

GEI-China is one of a small number of NGOs based in China, and works closely with a number of important government and academic institutions in China (including the Ministry of Environmental Protection, State Forestry Administration, Tibet Development Fund and Tsinghua University).

GLORAD

GLORAD was founded in 2003 by Max von Zedtwitz at Tsinghua University in Beijing, expanded to the University of St. Gallen in 2004, and moved its China office to Tongji University in 2008.

Hu Haifeng

Hu Haifeng was the president of Nuctech, a Tsinghua University-owned company created in the late 1990s to make large scanners for shipping, trucking containers and railway cars, as well as luggage scanners and metal detectors for airports.

National Emblem of the People's Republic of China

One group was from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts: Zhang Ding, Zhang Guangyu, Zhou Lingzhao, Zhong Ling, and the other group was from the Department of Architecture at Tsinghua University: Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin, Mo Zongjiang, Zhu Changzhong, Li Zongjin and Gao Zhuang.

Ni Weidou

And the Taiwanese Ni graduated from and worked for the National Tsing Hua University (in Hsinchu, Taiwan), which is the sister university (share the same root) of the Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Peking University HSBC Business School

The school is located in the Xili town of Shenzhen in a place called "University Town," which holds the Shenzhen campuses of Peking University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Tsinghua University.

Teach For China

Andrea Pasinetti founded Teach For China (under the name China Education Initiative) at Tsinghua University in March 2008.