Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

Founded in 1920, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) is a national key university of science and engineering committed to the coordinated development of multiple subjects including science, engineering, management, literature, economics, law, and art, and a member of the C9 League (C9). In 2017, HIT was named a class-A university on the list of “Double First-Class” University Project. HIT has 9 national first-level key subjects and 6 national second-level key subjects. In the third round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education, HIT had 10 of its first-level subjects rank among top five nationwide, especially, its mechanics ranked first. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, HIT had 17 of its subjects listed as class A, ranking sixth nationwide in terms of discipline excellence rate (the ratio of class-A subjects to the authorized subjects), ranking eighth nationwide in terms of the number of class-A subjects, and ranking second nationwide in terms of the number of engineering subjects.

Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ), jointly established by HIT and the Shenzhen Municipal Government, is a key campus of HIT, a university located in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, the first member of C9, also in the list of ‘Project 985’and ‘Double First Class-A’ university to settle down in Shenzhen for undergraduate admission. HITSZ was formerly known as the HIT Shenzhen Graduate School, which was founded in 2002. As a test field for the higher education reform of HIT, a bridgehead for gathering high-caliber talents, and a demonstration area for international cooperative schooling, HITSZ is an important part of HIT’s goal of becoming a ‘world-class university with Chinese characteristics and with HIT Standards’, an important player in Shenzhen’s higher education system, a pilot zone for building socialism with Chinese characteristics, and a model city for building China into a great modern socialist country.