Northeastern University

Northeastern University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. It is located in the central city of Shenyang in Northeast China. It is one of the first batch of national key construction schools of the "211 Project" and the "985 Project" and has achieved key construction jointly by the Ministry of Education, Liaoning Province and Shenyang City. Northeastern University was founded in April 1923. It is a university with a glorious tradition of patriotism. Facing the future, Northeastern University will seize the opportunity, develop its own characteristics, and strive to become a "domestic first-class, internationally renowned" high-level research university that will play a leading role in China's new industrialization process.

Northeastern University was founded on April 26, 1923. It is a university with a glorious tradition of patriotism. From August 1928 to January 1937, the famous patriotic general Zhang Xueliang served as the principal concurrently. After the September 18th Incident in 1931, Northeastern University was forced to go into exile to run its school. In March 1949, Shenyang Institute of Technology was established on the basis of the School of Engineering and the School of Science (part) of Northeastern University. In August 1950, it was named Northeast Institute of Technology. In March 1993, it was renamed Northeastern University. In January 1997, the former Shenyang Golden College was merged into Northeastern University. In September 1998, it was transferred to a university directly under the Ministry of Education. The school is one of the first batch of colleges and universities under the national "211 Project" and "985 Project". In September 2017, it entered the ranks of first-class universities. In the history of running a school for nearly a hundred years, Northeastern University has always insisted on walking in the same direction as the country's development and national rejuvenation, forming the school motto spirit of "continuous self-improvement, integrating knowledge and action" and the Northeastern University culture of "hard work, serving the country, innovation, and excellence." Historically, teachers and students of Northeastern University were the main force and pioneers of the "December 9th" movement. During the construction period, the school successively developed the country's first analog electronic computer, the first domestic CT, the first super steel and vanadium With a large number of high-level scientific research achievements such as new titanium magnetite smelting technology, energy-saving theory and technology in the steel industry, controlled rolling and controlled cooling technology, and hybrid intelligent optimization control technology, the first university science park was established to promote technological innovation, transfer and production. In terms of academic and research cooperation, it has formed its own school-running characteristics.

Northeastern University is located in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, a central city in Northeast China. It has a Qinhuangdao branch of Northeastern University in Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. The school covers a total area of ​​2.646 million square meters and a construction area of ​​1.837 million square meters. The school currently has 4,490 faculty members, including 2,857 full-time teachers. There are 5 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering and 4 overseas academicians. There are 125 candidates for the National Talent Project, 57 candidates for the National Youth Talent Project, 102 New Century Excellent Talents from the Ministry of Education, and 4 National Natural Science Foundation Innovation Groups. The school has more than 100 research institutions, including 11 national-level science and technology bases such as national key laboratories, cutting-edge science centers, and national engineering (technology) research centers. There are 2 national-level collaborative innovation centers, 1 collaborative innovation center jointly built by the province and the ministry, and 4 Liaoning Provincial Collaborative Innovation Centers.

Northeastern University is a multidisciplinary university focusing on engineering, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, management, art and other categories. The engineering discipline ranks among the top 1‰ in the world. There are 104 undergraduate majors, including 15 national-level specialty majors and 27 national-level first-class undergraduate major construction sites; currently there are 24 first-level discipline doctoral programs, 121 second-level discipline doctoral programs, and 36 first-level discipline master's degree programs. , 183 second-level discipline master's degree programs, 5 engineering doctoral professional degree categories and 15 professional master's degree categories; 19 postdoctoral mobile stations; 3 first-level disciplines national key disciplines, 4 second-level disciplines national key disciplines, 1 National key (cultivation) disciplines, covering a total of 16 secondary disciplines. The school takes first-class disciplines as the core, empowers discipline upgrading with "intelligence", implements 4 major leading plans, cultivates 3 projects, and coordinates the four-level discipline construction echelons of "world-class, national first-class, provincial first-class, school first-class". A cross-integrated and sustainable disciplinary ecosystem is more dynamic.

Northeastern University currently has more than 49,000 undergraduates, master's students, and doctoral students. Focusing on the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, the school has achieved fruitful results in cultivating top-notch innovative talents, updating teaching concepts, researching teaching methods, and exploring training models. Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", Northeastern University has won 3 new national teaching achievement awards, been approved for the first batch of 39 national first-class undergraduate courses, and been approved for 7 new engineering research and practice projects by the Ministry of Education. It has 3 new liberal arts research and reform practice projects of the Ministry of Education, won 1 National Textbook Construction Award (Higher Education Category), and was approved by the Ministry of Education as one of the first batch of future technical colleges. Students have won 444 international awards in innovation and entrepreneurship competitions, 2,100 national awards, 1,575 outstanding innovation and entrepreneurship projects, and 300 patents. A total of 94 student entrepreneurial companies have been launched. In the 2020 China Higher Education Society competition rankings, the total number of student awards ranked 3rd in the country and the overall ranking was 6th in the country. The quality of student sources, graduate employment rate and employment quality remain at a high level.

The school adheres to the scientific research direction of serving national strategies and regional development, encourages free exploration, and promotes collaborative innovation. The level of basic research has been steadily improved, and the competitiveness of technological innovation has been continuously enhanced. Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", the school has undertaken 8,000 science and technology projects of various types and won nearly 300 science and technology awards at the provincial and ministerial levels and above, including 14 national science and technology awards such as the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the second prize of the National Natural Science Award. He has won 67 first-class ministerial awards; he has obtained 5,109 national patents, including 4,584 invention patents; and a total of 29,801 papers have been included in the three major searches.

The school has formed a unique comparative advantage in technological innovation, technology transfer and achievement transformation, and has explored an effective way to combine government, industry, academia and research, and achieved positive interactive development of disciplines, talents, scientific research and industry. The school was selected into the first batch of pilot demonstration bases for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education and the National Development and Reform Commission's top 100 comprehensive innovation and reform test cases. The school insists on promoting the construction of university science parks in the fields of new generation information technology, new materials, life and health, and cross-tech frontiers, laying a new and important foundation for Northeastern University to serve the national economic construction and the comprehensive revitalization of Northeastern old industrial bases.

The school is open to the world and runs its schools, and has established long-term and stable cooperative relationships with 253 universities and research institutions in 37 countries and regions; it has established 6 "higher education subject innovation and intelligence bases" and 1 international cooperation joint laboratory , 3 Sino-foreign cooperative education projects and 1 Sino-foreign cooperative education institution, established the world’s first science and technology Confucius Institute in Belarus, and established cross-cultural academic exchange platforms such as the Polish Research Center, the Australian Research Center, and the Goethe Language Center. Continue to promote the construction of an international faculty team and an international innovative talent training system, hire well-known overseas experts to give lectures, academic exchanges, participate in discipline construction, etc., and send teachers and students to foreign countries (overseas) to carry out international conferences, scientific research cooperation, joint training, Overseas internships and other exchange visits. There are currently 1,097 international students on campus.

The school has always adhered to its original intention of cultivating moral character and cultivating talents, and its mission is to educate people for the Party and the country. It strives to cultivate new people of the era who will take on the responsibility of national rejuvenation. It leads the construction of first-class universities with strong party-building work and has been awarded the title of "National Advanced Grassroots Party" twice. Organization", selected into the first batch of 10 "National Party Building Demonstration Universities" cultivating and founding units, the first 10 pilot universities for the "Three Whole Education" comprehensive reform, and the first 10 pilot universities for the construction of a "one-stop" student community comprehensive management model Colleges and universities and the second batch of educational integrated media construction pilot units were approved by the Ministry of Education as a curriculum and ideological and political teaching research demonstration center.

Facing the future, Northeastern University will be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, continue to follow the educational purpose of “educating talents”, focus on the educational goals and positioning, and firmly follow the “innovative, characteristic and open” development path to provide We will make unremitting efforts to build "a world-class university with Chinese characteristics that plays a leading role in China's new industrialization process".

 (Data deadline: December 2021)