"Northeastern University is a 985 university and a 211 university. Northeastern University is the first batch of key construction universities in the "211 Project" and "985 Project", so Northeastern University is the 985 and 211 schools.
Northeastern University is located in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, a central city in Northeast China, with a branch in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province. The school covers a total area of 2.646 million square meters, with a building area of 1.837 million square meters. The school has 4,49 faculty members, including 2,857 full-time teachers. There are 5 academicians from China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering, and 4 overseas academicians.
Northeastern University is a multi-disciplinary university focusing on work, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, management, art and other categories. Engineering discipline ranks among the top 1‰ in the world. There are 14 undergraduate majors, including 15 national characteristic majors and 27 national first-class undergraduate majors. There are 24 first-class doctoral programs, 121 doctoral programs in two disciplines, 36 first-class master programs and 183 master programs in two disciplines.
The school 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 "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", the school has undertaken 8 scientific and technological projects and won nearly 3 scientific and technological awards at the provincial and ministerial levels, including 14 national scientific and technological awards such as the first prize of national scientific and technological progress and the second prize of national natural science, and 67 first prizes at the provincial and ministerial levels; Obtained 5,19 national patents, including 4,584 invention patents.
Project 985 and Project 211
"Project 985" is a high-level university and key discipline construction project started in 1998. Its purpose is to make China's higher education have a higher reputation and influence in the world. Under the impetus of this plan, the state supports and invests in the construction of 39 high-level universities and several key disciplines, and is committed to building a number of universities with high academic reputation and influence in the world.
The "211 Project" was initiated by the Ministry of Education in 1995 to improve the level of national higher education, mainly to reform and develop domestic higher education institutions and improve the overall strength of higher education. Under the impetus of the plan, the state has increased its support for key universities, which have received more investment and resources, and improved their academic level and teaching quality through various channels.