MIT OF China-Tsinghua University
2 min readTsinghua University was founded in 1911 on the site of Xichun Garden（which changed to Tsinghua Garden Later），an attached imperial garden of the Old Summer Palace of Qing Dynasty（1644-1911）.Named as Tsinghua Xuetang（qinghuaxuetang）and funded with part of the Boxer Indemnity，the school was a preparatory school in western style for students who were sent to study in the United States by the government.
Today Tsinghua University has developed to a leading comprehensive university pursued by numerous high school students.
It has 19 colleges and 55 departments，offering 66 bachelor’s degree programs，65 master’s degree programs and doctoral programs and 13 national key laboratories.With 43 academicians from CAS（Chinese Academy of Sciences）and 34 academicians from CAE（Chinese Academy of Engineering），Tsinghua University is celebrated for science and with engineering as its focus（Statistics Dec31，2013）.Tsinghua University is a leader in many areas such as Humanities and Social Sciences，Natural Sciences and Engineering，Life Sciences and Medicine and Economics and Management.
These advances are inseparable from its comfortable campus environment which rank high both at home and abroad.In fact，it has been ranked as one of the most beautiful universities in the world mainly because of its buildings which are characterized by a combination of Chinese and Western styles.
The whole campus can be divided into east section and west section along the north-south axis.The west section is the old campus which features American layout and Western structures.The Great Hall，the central architecture in this section，together with the Science Hall，west part of Gymnasium and the old Library were called FourMain Buildings in early times.The Great Hall is in ancient Roman style.It is regarded by Tsinghua people as a symbol of their resolute，simple and unyielding personality.
