Northeast Forestry University

Founded in 1953 in Harbin—a city on the banks of the Songhua River known for its winter climate—Harbin Engineering University evolved from the Harbin Military Engineering Institute. It is part of China’s national ‘211 Project’ and hosts a graduate school alongside a National University Science Park. The university focuses strongly on shipbuilding engineering, ocean exploration, and nuclear energy applications, with teaching and research shaped by this technical emphasis. Its campus supports over 30 academic disciplines delivered in English and draws students from more than 70 countries. With around 20 schools and institutes, HEU maintains a concentrated profile in engineering and applied sciences. Student numbers reflect its role as a national key university, particularly for maritime and nuclear-related fields.

Heilongjiang University is in Harbin, northeast China. Harbin is known for distinctive architecture, cool summers, winter skiing and skating, and its ice lantern festival. The area is known for standard Mandarin (Putonghua), which makes it a strong place to study Chinese. The university is a key comprehensive institution covering liberal arts, sciences, foreign languages, engineering, management, and more. The campus covers about 1,910,000 square meters, with nearly 1,160,000 square meters of buildings. Full-time enrollment is over 35,000, with about 5,000 students in master’s or doctoral study and about 2,000 international students each year. There are 10 faculty disciplines—Philosophy, Economics, Law, Education, Liberal Arts, History, Science, Engineering, Agriculture, and Management—covering 79 specialties. The university awards bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. Since 1981, nearly 10,000 international students have studied here, from Japan, South Korea, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and many other countries. Heilongjiang University is the province’s designated center for teaching Chinese as a foreign language, an appointed HSK exam site, and an institution approved to admit Chinese Government Scholarship students )

Founded in 1920 in Harbin, northeast China, Harbin Institute of Technology is a national key university with strengths across engineering, science, management, and humanities. It hosts multiple schools and institutes, offering undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programmes. The campus spans several sites in Harbin, with the original campus situated near the city’s central walking street. HIT maintains a strong research orientation and a long-standing commitment to multidisciplinary education. Around 1800 international students from over 100 countries study at the university each year. Its location in Harbin provides a distinct regional context, shaped by both historical development and seasonal character.

It was formed in June 2016 by merging Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce and Shanghai Finance University. Its roots go back to Lixin education founded by Dr. Pan Xulun in 1928. In 2022, the School of Business and Administration received five-year full AACSB accreditation. SLU has three campuses in Pudong, Songjiang, and Xuhui, covering more than 1,200 mu (about 800,000 square meters). It has more than 19,000 full-time students, including over 370 graduate students; 3 master’s degree programs and 40 undergraduate majors; more than 1,630 faculty and staff, including over 1,240 full-time teachers

Established in 1898 in Beijing, Peking University is China’s first national university. Its campus hosts five faculties—Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Medicine, and Information and Engineering—alongside 47 colleges and departments. The university offers over one hundred undergraduate programmes and more than five hundred graduate and doctoral programmes. With around 34,000 students including nearly 2,400 international learners from 80 countries, its academic community is both large and diverse. The teaching staff includes over 5,800 full-time faculty members, among them more than 1,700 professors and over 60 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering. Research infrastructure includes 11 national key laboratories, 46 state key laboratories, and a library holding 7.7 million volumes—the largest university library in Asia.

Zhejiang University, founded in 1897 in Hangzhou, is one of China’s leading comprehensive research universities. Teaching and research span science, engineering, medicine, humanities, and social sciences. International students study across a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.