Harbin Institute of 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
Type	Public
Established	1920; 105 years ago
President	Han Jiecai
Academic staff	2,957
Undergraduates	25,002
Postgraduates	12,710
Location	Harbin, Heilongjiang; Weihai, Shandong; Shenzhen, Guangdong;
Campus	1,060.823 acres (429.300 ha)
Affiliations	C9 League; Excellence League; APRU; Sino-Spanish University Alliance (SSU); Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance (GHMUA); UASR
Website	hit.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
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Hā'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 is a member of the C9 League.^[1]

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).^[2]