Tsinghua University, referred to as "Tsinghua University", is directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and is directly under the central government. It is ranked as "211 Project", "985 Project", "World-class University and First-class Discipline", and was selected as the "Basic Subject". The Student Training Pilot Program, the Institutional Innovation Enhancement Program, and the Higher Education Discipline Innovation Initiative are the Nine Schools Alliance, the Pine Union, the China University Presidents Association, the Asian University Alliance, the Pacific Rim University Alliance, and Tsinghua University. Cambridge - a member of the MIT Low Carbon University Alliance, is known as the "cradle of red engineers."

Tsinghua University's predecessor, Tsinghua University, was founded in 1911. The school name "Tsinghua" originated from the site name of "Tsinghua Garden". It is a preparatory school established by the Qing government. The funds for the establishment of the school originated from the part returned by the United States in 1908. Sub-indemnity. In 1912, it was renamed Tsinghua School. In 1928, it was renamed National Tsinghua University. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, it moved south to Changsha, and established the National Changsha Interim University with the National Peking University and the private Nankai University. In 1938, it moved to Kunming and changed its name to the National Southwestern United University. Moved back to Tsinghua Park in 1946. In 1949, the People's Republic of China was established and Tsinghua University entered a new stage of development. In 1952, the faculty of the national colleges and universities became a multi-disciplinary industrial university. Since 1978, it has gradually recovered and developed into a comprehensive research university.

Shuimu Tsinghua and Zhongling Yuxiu, Tsinghua University adheres to the school motto of “self-improvement, ethics and morality” and the school spirit of “successful in words”, insisting on the school-style style of “integration of Chinese and Western, integration of ancient and modern, and infiltration of culture and culture” and “red and special, The cultivation characteristics of "all-round development" carry forward the tradition of "patriotism, pursuit of excellence" and the spirit of "humanity and newness". Just as the book of the couplet in the Tsinghua Garden Office of Characters - "the mountains outside the mountains, the spring, summer, autumn and winter, thousands of changes, all are extraordinary; cloud shadows in the window, let the things north and south, go to the ripples, the dragon is the Xianju."