Northeastern University, founded in 1923, is a comprehensive university with unique advantages in technological innovation and achievement transformation as a key university under the "985 Project".
Founded on April 26, 1923, Tohoku University is a university with a glorious tradition of patriotism. From August 1928 to January 1937, General Zhang Xueliang, a famous patriotic general, served as the president. In March 1949, Shenyang Institute of Technology was established on the basis of the School of Engineering and the School of Science (partially) 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 Gold College was merged into Northeastern University, and in September 1998, it was transferred to a university directly under the Ministry of Education, and a national key university jointly built with Liaoning Province. In the course of more than 90 years of running the school, Northeastern University has always adhered to the same direction of national development and national rejuvenation, and has formed the spirit of the school motto of "continuous self-improvement, unity of knowledge and action". Historically, the teachers and students of Northeastern University were the main force and pioneer of the "12.9" movement, during the construction period, the school has developed the first analog electronic computer, the first domestic CT, the first super steel and a large number of high-level scientific research achievements such as vanadium titanium magnetite smelting technology, energy-saving theory and technology of iron and steel industry, controlled rolling and cooling technology, hybrid intelligent optimization control technology, etc., established the first university science park, cultivated high-tech enterprises such as Neusoft and Dongwang, and made great achievements in technological innovation, In terms of transfer and industry-university-research cooperation, it has formed its own characteristics of running a school.
The school has 4,516 teaching staff, including 2,673 full-time teachers. Among them, there are 5 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2 foreign academicians, 20 candidates of the national "Thousand Talents Program", and 13 young people of the Thousand Talents Program. There are 6 winners of the National Special Support Program for High-level Talents, 25 distinguished professors and chair professors of the Changjiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education, 23 winners of the National Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 14 winners of the Cooperative Research Fund for Overseas, Hong Kong and Macao Scholars, 102 New Century Outstanding Talents of the Ministry of Education, and 13 winners of the National "Millions of Talents Project". There are 4 innovation groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and 3 innovation teams of the Ministry of Education. 495 doctoral supervisors; The university has more than 100 research institutions, including 3 State Key Laboratories, 4 National Engineering (Technology) Research Centers, and 3 National Engineering Laboratories. There are 2 national collaborative innovation centers and 3 collaborative innovation centers in Liaoning Province.
The school's disciplines cover philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, management, art and other categories. There are 66 undergraduate majors, including 15 national-level characteristic majors; There are 177 disciplines that have the right to recruit and train master's students (with 10 other professional degree authorization points), and 108 disciplines have the right to recruit and train doctoral students; There are 17 postdoctoral research stations; There are 3 national key disciplines of first-level disciplines, 4 national key disciplines of second-level disciplines, and 1 national key (cultivation) discipline, covering a total of 16 second-level disciplines. With the goal of first-class and the driving force of reform, the school promotes the optimization and adjustment of the discipline layout, and the discipline construction pattern of sustainable development is taking shape.
Northeastern University has a complete education system for bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral degrees. The university has more than 40,000 full-time students, including 29,804 undergraduates, 10,362 master's students, and 3,730 doctoral students. Focusing on the fundamental task of cultivating people with virtue, the school has achieved fruitful results in the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents, the updating of teaching concepts, the research of teaching methods, and the exploration of training models. Since the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", Northeastern University has won 3 national teaching achievement awards, 11 national excellent video open courses, 15 national excellent resource sharing courses, and 18 national "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" planning textbooks. He has been nominated for 5 national excellent doctoral dissertations. Students have won 400 international awards in innovation and entrepreneurship competitions, 1,687 national awards, 1,580 outstanding innovation and entrepreneurship projects, nearly 384 patents, and a total of 50 student start-up enterprises have landed. The quality of students, the employment rate of graduates and the quality of employment remain at a high level.
The university adheres to the scientific research direction of serving the national strategy and regional development, encourages free exploration, promotes collaborative innovation, steadily improves the level of basic research, and continuously enhances the competitiveness of technological innovation. Since the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the school has undertaken 6,387 scientific and technological projects and won 279 scientific and technological awards, including 14 national awards and 58 provincial and ministerial first prizes; It has obtained 1499 national patents, including 1127 invention patents; A total of 14,644 papers were indexed by the three major indexes. He has hosted 161 international and domestic academic conferences, including 65 international conferences.
The university has formed a unique comparative advantage in technological innovation and achievement transformation, explored an effective way to combine government, industry, academia, research and application, and realized the benign interactive development of disciplines, talents, scientific research and industry. In 2016, the sales revenue of the university's high-tech industry was 13.6 billion yuan, and the comprehensive index of the science and technology industry ranked third among universities in the country. The university adheres to the new generation of information technology, new materials, life and health and other fields, builds new cloud computing science and technology parks, new material industrial parks, and health industrial parks, promotes the rapid development of cloud computing and big data industries, and promotes the innovation and upgrading of equipment manufacturing industry in Liaoshen and Shenyang, laying a new and important foundation for Northeastern University to serve the national economic construction and the comprehensive revitalization of the old industrial base in Northeast China.
The university has established long-term and stable cooperative relations with 212 universities and research institutions in 35 countries and regions, and hires more than 300 well-known overseas experts to give lectures or cooperate in scientific research every year. Nearly 700 faculty members were sent abroad to carry out academic exchanges; More than 600 students of all levels have been sent to overseas universities for exchange and study. In 2016, there were 1,408 international students from 98 countries and regions.
Facing the future, Northeastern University will continue to follow the tenet of "educating talents", comprehensively improve the university functions of talent training, scientific research, social service and cultural inheritance and innovation, firmly follow the development path of "innovation, specialization and openness", and strive to build a "world-class university with Chinese characteristics that plays a leading role in the process of China's new industrialization".
