Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University
清华大学
Motto: 自强不息, 厚德載物 (Self-discipline and Social Commitment)
Established: Founded in 1911
Type: Public
President: Gu Binglin (顾秉林)
Faculty: 2,857
Undergraduates: 13,915
Postgraduates: 12,831
Location: Beijing, People's Republic of China
Campus: Urban, 405.9 ha (3.84 km²)
Flower: Redbud and Lilac
Colors: Purple and White          
Website: www.tsinghua.edu.cn
English

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.[1] Today, most national and international rankings place Tsinghua as a top university in China.[2][3][4][5][6]

Contents

History

Qing Dynasty gardens at the Tsinghua University ground

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.

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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."[7][8][9] But since the 1980s, the university began to incorporate a multidisciplinary system. As a result, a lot of 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.

Present

Tsinghua's Science Park
Built in 1917, The Grand Auditorium, with its Jeffersonian architectural design by American architects, is a centerpiece of the old campus

Most national and international university rankings place Tsinghua as a top university in China.[10][11][12][13][14] 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.[15] 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.[16] 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, Hank Paulson etc, as guest speakers at the university.[17]

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[18]. 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.

Schools and Departments

The building of the Tsinghua School
The Tsinghua Observatory

School of Economics and Management

Tsinghua's School of Economics and Management

The Tsinghua School of Economics and Management (SEM) is consistently ranked the best in China.[19] It is currently the only mainland Chinese institution outside of Hong Kong to have achieved the prestigious AACSB and EQUIS accreditation for its business and accounting programs. Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, founded in 1984, was the first economics and management school in China. Professor ZHU Rongji, the Founding Dean, later became the fifth Premier of the People’s Republic of China. Tsinghua SEM is now among the premier business schools in Asia and enjoys world class faculty, students and research centers. Tsinghua SEM is the successor to the departments of Economics which was established in 1926. Since then, the school has built a powerful and influential alumni network. Tsinghua SEM also has the largest student exchange program in China with more than 50 world-class business schools as well as 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 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 and 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 MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Sloan affiliate alumni status. Besides the M.I.T.-Tsinghua International MBA program, international students, provided they have Chinese language skills, can also choose to apply to the Full-time MBA and the Part-time MBA.[20]

SEM also offers and EMBA program in partnership with INSEAD. The Tsinghua-INSEAD Dual Degree Executive MBA Program was initiated in 2006. It’s 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 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 experience. It combines the analytical rigour of an MBA with the managerial relevance of executive education. Upon successful completion of the program, participants will be 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.[21]

Besides excellent professional education like MBA programs, SEM also devotes to provide fabulous academic education. There are 8 majors in SEM, namely, management science and engineering, finance, economy, accounting, corporation strategy and policy, marketing, human resources management, technology economy and management.

Today the business school of both programs is considered the premier training ground for China's business leaders and one of the three elite emerging business schools of China.[22]

School of Journalism and Communication

The School of Journalism and Communication (TSJC), Tsinghua University was established on the 21st April 2002. Its research fields involve International Communication, Film and Television Studies, New Media Studies, and Media Operation and Management based on comprehensive research in journalism and communication theories. The objective of the school is: to bring into full advantage Tsinghua University comprehensive academic structure, to construct a first-rate discipline in journalism and communication studies, to cultivate talented professionals in this field and to explore advanced concepts in journalism and communication.

Now the dean of the school is Jingyi Fan, former editor-in-chief of the People Daily.

The school has organized five research-oriented centers to conduct academic research activities more effectively. 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. [23]

Rankings

Chinese National Rankings

#1 by China's Education Center-(2007) [22]

  - #1 in China (2006) [23]

#1 by Shenzen Education Network (Translated on NetBig.com by google)-(2008) [24]

  - #1 in China-(2007)[25]
  - #1 in China-(2006)[26]
  - #1 in China-(2005)[27]
  - #1 in China-(2004)[28]
  - #1 in China-(2003)[29]

#1 by China University Ranking at china-university-ranking.com-(2008) [30]

#1 by The Shanghai Institute of Educational Science (SIES) Ranking-(2004) [31]

International Rankings

#1 in China and #151-202 Worldwide by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (IHE-SJTU)-(2007) [32]

  - #1 in China and #151-200 Worldwide-(2006)[33]
  - #1 in China and #153-202 Worldwide-(2005)[34]
  - #1 in China and #202-301 Worldwide-(2004)[35]
  - #1 in China and #202-301 Worldwide-(2003)[36]

#1 in China and #247 Worldwide by University Metrics-(2006) [37]

#4 in China and #214 Worldwide by PROFESSIONAL RANKING OF WORLD UNIVERSITIES of Mines ParisTech-(2007) [38]

#2 in China and #238 Worldwide by webometrics-(2008) [39]

#2 in China and #40 Worldwide by THES - QS World University Rankings-(2007) [40]

  - #2 in China and #28 Worldwide-(2006)[41]
  - #2 in China and #62 Worldwide-(2005)[42]

Campus

The Old Gate is a symbol of Tsinghua University
The traditional Xuetang inside the campus grounds
Tsinghua campus scenery
Entrance doorway inside Tsinghua's gardens
The main administration building

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. 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.[24]

The University's Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology is on a separate campus in a northern suburb of Beijing.

University traditions

Tsinghua Alma Mater

Tsinghua's early alma mater (school anthem) was composed by an American instructor Miss Katherine E. Seelye:

Tsing Hua College Song

O come and join our hearty song,
As proudly here we stand;
For Tsing Hua College let us sing,
The best in all the land.
We'll spread her fame and win a name,
And put our foes to shame,
If you don't agree, come on and see,
And you will say the same, the same,
And you will say the same. 　
O Tsing Hua, fair Tsing Hua, our College bright!
May we be loyal to the Purple and the White.
O Tsing Hua, fair Tsing Hua, our College pure,
We are loyal, We're faithful, we stand for you.

In 1923, another version of the school alma mater with lyrics in Chinese (by Prof. Wang Luan Xiang, a Chinese language professor of Tsinghua) was composed by Mrs. Zhang Hui Zhen and was well received by the students and faculty. The song was then adopted as the school's official Alma Mater.

Anniversary and Homecoming

The last Sunday of April is Tsinghua's anniversary and Homecoming (Xiao-Qing) Day.

School flowers

Redbud and Lilac

School colors

Purple and White

Tsinghua Fight Song

Cheer for old Tsinghua
Tsinghua must win.
Fight to the finish,
never give in.
You do your best, boys,
we'll do the rest, boys.
Fight for the victory, Rha, Rha, Rha!

The school cheer goes: Ri-ri-ri, Rah-rah-rah! Tsinghua, Tsinghua, Tsinghua ! Rah-rah-rah!

People associated with Tsinghua University

Main article: People associated with Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University has produced many notable graduates, especially in political sphere.These include current president Hu Jintao, current vice president Xi Jinping, current head of the National People's Congress Wu Bangguo, former premier Zhu Rongji, former executive vice premier Huang Ju. Tsinghua also has two Nobel Prize winners, Tsung-Dao Lee and Yang Chen Ning. The latter is currently residing on Tsinghua campus. This is a list of people associated with Tsinghua University in China.

Nobel Laureates

Famous Alumni

Famous Faculty

Liang Qichao was one China's most groundbreaking scholars, journalists, philosophers and reformists of the 20th century.
The President of the People's Republic of China is one of the many alumni from Tsinghua to join the political sphere

The Tsinghua Clique

The term Tsinghua clique refers to a group of Communist Chinese politicians that have graduated from Tsinghua University. They are members of the fourth 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 of Hu Yaobang). In the PRC, their ascendance to power is likely to begin in 2008 at the 17th National Congress of the CPC.

Tsinghua graduates who have political prominence are disproportionately greater in number than graduates of other famous universities. Among the nine standing committees at the Politburo, there are four Tsinghua graduates; among the 24 Politburo committee members, there are five; and of all the "leaders of the party and the country", there are 10.

Key figures are reported to include:

Retired or deceased:

The Tsinghua clique also referred to a group of Nationalist Chinese politicians who held high power in the Republic of China government and fled to Taiwan with the government during the Chinese Civil War. All of them are deceased:

Also refer to

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants partnership

Tsinghua University has signed agreements with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the renowned international accountancy body that offers the Chartered Certified Accountant qualification worldwide, to train professional accountants in China. Under the agreement, Tsinghua will develop the programme that under ACCA's syllabus for enabling China's accounting students to join the ACCA professional exam scheme at a higher level. Tsinghua will also recognise the Oxford Brookes University BSc Applied Accounting degree, which has been successfully developed in conjunction with ACCA and which enables students who have completed two parts of the ACCA qualification to apply for the Oxford Brookes degree.[43]

See also

References

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