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Harbin Institute of Technology

Coordinates: 45°44′36″N 126°37′57″E / 45.7432°N 126.6324°E / 45.7432; 126.6324
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Not to be confused with Harbin Engineering University or Harbin University of Science and Technology.
Harbin Institute of Technology
哈尔滨工业大学
Motto
规格严格，功夫到家
Motto in English
Rigor and Mastery
TypePublic
Established1920; 104 years ago (1920)
PresidentHan Jiecai
Academic staff
2,957
Undergraduates25,002
Postgraduates12,710
Location
Campus1,060.823 acres (429.300 ha)
AffiliationsC9 League
Excellence League
APRU
Sino-Spanish University Alliance (SSU)
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance (GHMUA)
UASR
Websitehit.edu.cn
en.hit.edu.cn
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese哈尔滨工业大学
Traditional Chinese哈爾濱工業大學
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHā'ěrbīn Gōngyè Dàxué

The Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) is a public science and engineering university in Nan'gang, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. It is one of the top universities in China and now affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction.

The university was founded in 1920 as Harbin Sino-Russia Industrial School. Besides the main campus in Harbin, the university operates two satellite campuses in Shenzhen, Guangdong (as Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen) and in Weihai, Shandong (as Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai).[1] The university is a member of the C9 League.

History

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The main building of Harbin Institute of Technology

Key honors include the following:[2][3]

  • In 1920, the Harbin Institute of Technology was originally established as the Harbin Sino-Russian School for Industry to educate railway engineers.[4]
  • In 1931, postgraduate students were enrolled from the spring of 1931.
  • In 1935, during the Japanese invasion of China, the university fell under Japanese control.
  • On January 1, 1938, the name Harbin Institute of Technology was reinstated, which it has retained until the present.
  • In 1945, after the Japanese defeated in World War II and evacuated, HIT was headed by the Zhongchang Railway Bureau and jointly managed by China and the Soviet Union.
  • In 1949, Harbin Institute of technology recruited graduate students from all over the country. It is one of the earliest institutions to train postgraduates in China.
  • In 1951, HIT was approved by the central government to become one of the two institutions of higher learning to learn advanced techniques from the USSR. HIT enjoyed a reputation as the 'Cradle for Engineers'.
  • In 1954, HIT was established as one of six national key universities of China, the only one outside Beijing.[2]
  • In 1984, HIT became one of 15 national major investment universities of China. In 1984, HIT became one of the first 22 universities to establish a graduate school.
  • In 1996, HIT was established as a first-class university under Project 211 (a project of National Key Universities initiated by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China).
  • In 1998, HIT was among the first 9 universities to be invited to join the Project 985 Club (a Chinese higher education system that provides funding priority to 39 leading research comprehensive universities).
  • In 2000, Harbin Institute of Technology merged with Harbin University of Architecture, one of the famous eight old schools in China with the same roots, and formed a new Harbin Institute of Technology.
  • In 2009, the Chinese C9 League was established by the Chinese central government, comprising a group of the top nine Chinese universities: Peking University, Tsinghua University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Science and Technology of China, Xi'an Jiao Tong University and Zhejiang University.[5]
  • In 2012, HIT was listed in the Universities and Colleges Innovation Promotion Plan (高等学校创新能力提升计划), the most recent national advanced innovation alliance.
  • In 2013, the results of the third round of discipline assessment were announced. The school has 16 first-level disciplines ranked in the top five in the country, and 25 disciplines rank among the top ten in the country; among them, the first-level discipline of mechanics ranks first in the nation.
  • In 2017, HIT was ranked as Class A (top tier) university in the Double First-Class Construction, the most recent elite Chinese universities program.[2]

Weihai Campus

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Weihai campus is located in Weihai's Torch Hi-Tech Science Park, a scenic seaside city on the Jiaodong Peninsula.

The campus, along with the picturesque scenery and mild climate, adjoins the sea (Golden Beach) and is surrounded by mountains. It is ranked in the best 50 universities in satisfaction degree in China.[6] It now covers totally 1,560,000 square metres (16,800,000 sq ft), with a construction area of 383,000 m2 (4,120,000 sq ft).

HIT, Weihai now has 10 schools and 1 department, 10,466 undergraduate students, 542 master students, 110 Ph.D. candidates, 89 international students, and 861 staff members, including 97 professors and 219 associate professors. HIT, Weihai provides 37 bachelor programs and shares HIT's 22 master programs and 18 doctoral programs, with the same HIT educational standards. Complementing to the Harbin campus, HIT, Weihai has developed with the characteristic disciplines such as Marine Science and Ocean Engineering, Automotive Engineering, and the highlights in the domains of Advanced Manufacturing, Information Technology and Electric Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Material Science and Engineering.[7]

Academics

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Program

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The Harbin campus of HIT offers 86 undergraduate degrees across its eighteen schools along with 41 master programs, 29 doctoral programs and 24 post-doctoral research programs.[8][9][10]

  • School of Architecture
  • School of Astronautics
  • School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
  • School of Civil Engineering
  • School of Computer Science and Technology
  • School of Economy and Management
  • School of Electrical Engineering and Automation
  • School of Electronics and Information Engineering
  • School of Energy Science and Engineering
  • School of Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics
  • School of International Studies
  • School of Life Science and Technology
  • School of Marxism
  • School of Material Science and Engineering
  • School of Mechatronics Engineering
  • School of Transportation Science and Technology
  • School of Science
  • School of Environment
  • School of Humanities, Social Science & Law

As of 2019, there were 15,675 undergraduate students, 6,518 doctoral students and 9,680 master graduate students at the Harbin campus, including 1,984 international students from 128 countries and regions.[11]

General Rankings

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University rankings
BCUR National[12] Domestic 16
Wu Shulian National[13] Domestic 11
CUAA National[14] Alumni 13
QS National[15] General 10
THE National[16] General 10
QS Asia
(Asia version)[17]		 General 57
THE Asia
(Asia version)[18]		 General 24
ARWU World[19] Research 101–150
QS World[20] General =252
THE World[21] General =152
USNWR World[22] General =160

Nationally, HIT is consistently ranked among China's top-10 research comprehensive universities and ranked No.1 in Northeast China region,[23] which includes the province of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang with a combination of more than 100 million population.[24]

HIT was ranked 10th in China and 158th worldwide in 2023 in terms of aggregate performance from the three most widely observed university rankings (THE+ARWU+QS) as reported by the Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities.[25]

For 2024, HIT was ranked 160 by U.S. News & World Report,[26] # 174 by the Center for World University Rankings,[27] and 168 by Times Higher Education World University Rankings.[28]

In 2020, it was ranked in the 101-150 band by Academic Ranking of World Universities.[29]

Internationally, HIT is regarded as one of the most reputable Chinese universities by the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings where it ranked 101th globally.[30] HIT graduates are highly desired worldwide, with its Graduate Employability rankings placed at # 143 globally in the 2021 Global Employability University Ranking by Times Higher Education.[31]

Subject rankings

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Research at Harbin Institute of Technology spans a broad range of topics with a strong focus on engineering sciences.[32] HIT has been ranked in the top 10 Best Global Universities for Engineering by the U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Ranking since the ranking’s inception in 2014 by the US News & World Reports.[32][33] As of 2024, it is ranked 3rd globally in Engineering.[34]

Global Subject Rankings by ARWU 2023 Rank[35]
Instruments Science & Technology 1
Biotechnology 4
Aerospace Engineering 5
Mechanical Engineering 5
Automation & Control 7
Metallurgical Engineering 7
Civil Engineering 9
Marine/Ocean Engineering 14
Chemical Engineering 17
Environmental Science & Engineering 22
Energy Science & Engineering 24
Library & Information Science 26
Computer Science & Engineering 27
Remote Sensing 28
Transportation Science & Technology 30
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 31
Electrical & Electronic Engineering 35
Materials Science & Engineering 37
Telecommunication Engineering 47
Chemistry 51-75
Water Resources 51-75
Biomedical Engineering 76-100
Mathematics 76-100

Research

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Research Outputs

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Regarding scientific research output, the Nature Index 2023 ranked HIT the No.37 university in the Asia Pacific region, and 87th in the world among the global universities.[36] The 2023 CWTS Leiden Ranking ranked HIT 18th in the world by total publications and 30th in the world based on the number of their scientific publications belonging to the top 1% in their fields for the time period 2018–2021.[37]

HIT is one of the Seven Sons of National Defence.[38]

Contributions

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Its faculty and students have invented many 'firsts' in China: the first analog computer in 1957, the first digital computer in 1958, the first intelligent chess computer, the first arc welding robot, the first world-class new system radar, the first IC CMOS chip with its own copyright, the first superway, computer real-time 3D image creation system, and the first high-performance computer controlled fiber twister.[39][40] HIT undertakes research covered by official secrets (e.g. in space science and defense-related technologies).[41][42] It made the largest contribution to the success of the Shenzhou series spacecraft and Kuaizhou series spacecraft.[43][44] One minor planet (#55838) is named after the Harbin Institute of Technology and nicknamed "Hagongda Star" by the International Astronomical Union for HIT's achievements in science and engineering.[45][46]

HIT is known to have close links to the People's Liberation Army and the space program of China as one of the main universities in China for space and defense-related research.[47] HIT has made major contributions to the Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft project. In 2010, the Astronautics Innovation Research Center was established at HIT in conjunction with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The establishment is the biggest investment of this class in China.[48] In May 2020, the United States Bureau of Industry and Security added to HIT to the Entity List for its alleged activities in support of the People's Liberation Army.[49][50]

Notable faculty and alumni

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Academia and education

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Business and entrepreneurship

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Engineering and technology

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Politics and government

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Sports and arts

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See also

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References

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