With the central task of talent cultivation, Tsinghua aims to cultivate people who shoulder the mission and strive for excellence through a “Three-Pronged Approach” by integrating the shaping of values, the cultivating of skills and the imparting of knowledge. Students are expected to develop five essential qualities, namely, well-rounded character, solid and broad academic foundation, innovative thinking, global perspective and social commitment, achieving a combination of comprehensive development and individual development.

Through optimizing undergraduate programs, developing quality undergraduate courses and continuously improving the quality of undergraduate education, Tsinghua builds an undergraduate education system based on general education and integrating general education with disciplinary specialization to help students to become highly-competent, high-level, diversified and creative talents.

Tsinghua offers 82 undergraduate majors and 18 second degree majors, covering 10 discipline categories, namely, science, engineering, literature, history, philosophy, economics, management, law, medicine and art. As a comprehensive university, the structure and overall arrangement of majors of Tsinghua are characterized by engineering majors with collective advantages, literature, science, management and law majors with distinctive features, cross-disciplinary majors with diverse forms, and adapting to the needs of China’s development.

Tsinghua University offers Bachelor degrees with duration of 4 years, except for Architecture and Sculpture which are 5 years, and Clinical Medicine which is 8 years. All of the undergraduate programs are listed as follows.

Undergraduate Programs （2019~2020）

No.	Program	School(Department)
1	Architecture	School of Architecture
2	Urban Planning
3	Landscape Architecture
4	Building Environment and Energy Engineering
5	Civil Engineering	School of Civil Engineering
6	Construction Management
7	Traffic Engineering
8	Hydraulic and Hydropower Engineering
9	Hydroscience and Engineering
10	Civil Engineering and Systems
11	Environmental Engineering	School of Environment
12	Water Supply and Wastewater Engineering
13	Mechanical Engineering	School of Mechanical Engineering
14	Measurement, Control Technology and Instruments
15	Micro-electro-mechanical Systems Engineering
16	Vehicle Engineering
17	Industrial Engineering
18	Energy and Power Engineering
	Energy and Power Engineering	School of Aerospace
19	Engineering Mechanics
20	Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
21	Electrical Engineering and Automation	Department of Electrical Engineering
22	Electronic Information Science and Technology	School of Information Science and Technology
23	Electronic Information Engineering
24	Electronic Science and Technology
25	Microelectronics Science and Engineering
26	Software Engineering
27	Automation
28	Computer Science and Technology
	Computer Science and Technology	Institute for Interdisciplinary Information      Science
29	Engineering Physics	Department of Engineering Physics
30	Nuclear Engineering and Nuclear Technology
31	Chemical Engineering and Industrial Biological Engineering	Department of Chemical Engineering
32	Polymer Materials and Engineering
33	Materials Science and Engineering	School of Materials Science and Engineering
34	Mathematics and Physics	School of Science
35	Pure and Applied Mathematics
36	Information and Computing Science
37	Physics
38	Applied Physics
39	Chemistry
40	Chemical Biology
41	Biological Sciences	School of Life Sciences
42	Biotechnology
43	General Administration	School of Public Policy and Management
44	Business Administration	School of Economics and      Management
45	Information Management and Information Systems
46	Accounting
37	Finance
48	Economics and Finance
49	Economics
	Economics	School of Social Sciences
50	Sociology
51	International Politics
52	Psychology
53	School of Public Policy and Management
54	Philosophy	School of Humanities
55	History
56	Chinese Language and Literature
57	English Language
58	Japanese Language
59	Law	School of Law
60	Journalism	School of Journalism and Communication
61	Advertising	Academy of Arts and Design
62	Theory and History of Arts
63	Animation
64	Painting
65	Sculpture
66	Photography
67	Chinese Painting
68	Theory of Arts & Design
69	Visual Communication Design
70	Environment Design
71	Product Design
72	Fashion Design
73	Public Art
74	Craft Art
75	Digital Media Art
76	Art and Technology
77	Ceramic Design
78	Industrial Design
79	Clinical Medicine	School of Medicine/Peking Union Medical College,Tsinghua University
80	Biomedical Engineering	School of Medicine
81	Pharmaceutical Sciences
82	Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy	XinYa College

Every academic year is divided into three semesters: spring, autumn and summer. The two eighteen-week semesters in spring and autumn are for courses, while the ten-twelve-week summer semester consists of a five-week practical trainings or internship abroad and a five-seven-week vacation.

Tsinghua is striving for an undergraduate curriculum that combines general education and disciplinary specialization. In 2015, the University launched a new round of curricular review to further update its undergraduate programs. The premised curriculum consists of general education (44 credits), disciplinary specialization(96-116credits) and self-directed development (10-20 credits) .In general, total credits for degree requirements vary across programs. For science and engineering four-year degree majors, students need to earn 160-170 credits, for humanities majors, 150-160 credits.

Currently Tsinghua is carrying out a teaching initiative to promote a learning-centered method. Undergraduate curriculum with Tsinghua characteristics is formed on the basis of multiple teaching modes such as Freshmen seminar, Challenge-Based Learning courses, Blended learning method , Textbook Compilation.

Undergraduate   English Taught Courses (2017-2018)


Undergraduate   English Taught Courses (2018-2019)

On April 29, 1911, when the Bauhinias were blossoming  all over the garden, the first sound of book-reading came out of  Tsinghua Xuetang, which initiated the history of Tsinghua University.

From her very beginning as Tsinghua Xuetang, Tsinghua University  progressively developed, nurturing her blossoming talents. In 1925, the  Institute of National Studies was established and located in Tsinghua  Xuetang. With the principle of the integration of the Chinese culture  and the western culture, a number of distinguished scholars gathered  here such as WANG Guowei, LIANG Qichao, CHEN Yinque, and ZHAO Yuanren  who were known as the “Four Great Masters” in Tsinghua Garden. In just a  few years’ time, Tsinghua became one of the top institutes in China,  known not only for her sciences, but also for her national studies,  carrying forward the Chinese civilization. Also in Tsinghua Xuetang once  studied famous figures such as MEI Yi-qi, WEN Yiduo, ZHU Kezhen, HOU  Debang,MAO Yisheng, YE Qisun, PAN Guangdan, WU Mi and etc.

In 2009, Tsinghua Xuetang Talents Program was launched. The Xuetang  Program aims to transform the education resources that the University  has into the priority for the students’ cultivation. An important  criteria of the Xuetang Program is the enrichment of the breadth and  depth of Tsinghua's faculties.Curriculum development and facility  advancement also contribute to an atmosphere that incubates the learning  process. Through the Xuetang Program our students find inspiration to  devote themselves to their fields and take a leadership position among  academics worldwide. Tsinghua Xuetang Talents Program focuses on six  disciplinary areas, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Life Science,  Computer Science and Mechanics. These reinvigorated programs have moved  into their newly renovated building of Tsinghua Xuetang.

The World Literature and Culture program was admitted into the Xuetang Program in 2017 for the purpose of discovering new ways for the cultivation of talents in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences. Tsinghua University established the Tsinghua Xuetang Artificial Intelligence Program in 2019, aiming to further strengthen personnel cultivation in the interdisciplinary field of artificial intelligence.

Tsinghua Xuetang Mathematics Program

Chair professor Shing-Tung YauThe ultimate goal of the Mathematics Program is to nurture a new generation of leading Chinese mathematician. The program seeks to recruit and train the students motivated to pursue their careers in mathematics, providing them with superior training and opportunities to work with mathematical masters around the world so that they can become leading mathematicians in the future.

Tsinghua Xuetang Physics Program

Chair professor Bangfen ZhuThe Physics Program which is regarded as a Tsinghua paradise for physics study and research aims to turn out world-class physicist and academic masters. The Program builds on the fine tradition of Tsinghua's Physics Department which generated two Nobel laureates and ten great scientists in the research on atomic and hydrogen bombs and the first satellite in China. Now provided with leading faculties, the Program focuses on training the students with their academic interest, innovative drive, imaginary and critical thinking ability, and creates the best environment for the talent students who are willing to devote themselves into scaling the heights of physics.

Tsinghua Xuetang Chemistry Program

Chair professor Xun WangThe mission of the Chemistry Program is to explore and establish a new educational system for cultivating talented and devoted chemists. The training of this Program focuses not only on the basics of chemistry, but also on its frontier research and future development. Through the personalized education with its emphasis on critical thinking, this Program aims at producing a new generation of leading chemists, who are dedicated and creative in chemical research, and have solid background and broad vision in chemistry as well as strong sense of social responsibility.

Tsinghua Xuetang Life Science Program

Chair professor Yigong ShiThe Life Science Program aims to nurture the outstanding future research talents who are willing to dedicate themselves to the life science. Based on flexible curriculums, challenging experiments, the guidance from excellent scientists, and various international exchanges, this Program will provide a special platform for learning and research for its talented students strongly interested in life science and determined to devote themselves to this field.

Tsinghua Xuetang Computer Science Program

Chair professor Andrew Chi-Chih YaoThe Computer Science Program was founded by Prof. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, world-leading computer scientist in 2006 with a view to nurture promising undergraduate students in the field of computer science, who are to become top talents students in the world. Yao Class has set up a model for cultivating innovative talents in accordance with their aptitude and developed an extensive international teaching program. It promotes progressive education as first two years focus on basic knowledge in computer science while third and fourth years featuring in two research areas namely "theory and security" and "system and application". Its distinctive talent cultivation model has been highly acknowledged and strongly supported. Most of Yao Class students pursue further studies upon graduation and are now making remarkable achievements in the field of computer science.

Tsinghua Xuetang Mechanics Program

Chair professor Quanshui ZhengThe Mechanics Program aims to create the best learning and research environment for the talents, encourage them to explore scientifically, and at the same time conduct autonomous learning by themselves in order to promote their personalized development and aptitude for critical thinking. The Program focuses on nurturing the future leaders in mechanics and engineering with good knowledge of humanities and prominent innovative ability.

Key features of the carefully designed curriculum include small class size coordinated with a tutorial system. Prominent scholars and world masters in mechanics are invited to deliver lecturers. Through the collaboration with major world universities and the state key engineering projects, the Program will offer the talented students more opportunities and an enriched platform for their learning and research.

Tsinghua Xuetang World Literature and Culture Program

Chair professor Haiping YanThe World Literature and Culture Program is an undergraduate English-language program co-founded by the Institute for World Literatures and Cultures and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University. It aims to further develop Tsinghua University’s intellectual tradition of “connecting the East and the West, bridging the past and the present, and intertwining humanistic and scientific ideas.” The program nurtures students with canons of world literatures, teaches them in-depth knowledge of histories of different civilizations, and guides them to explore different national cultures, languages and societies, so that they can inherit Chinese cultural tradition while making meaningful innovations and grow to become new generations of learned scholars who could carry on the historical responsibility to develop Chinese humanistic studies in the global environment. The program puts special emphasis on the overall improvement of students’ English language ability and their multilingual awareness and capabilities. At the same time, based on the extensive reading of classics in the humanities, the program seeks to expand students’ cultural visions and deepen their critical thinking. The goal of the program is to discover and cultivate new generations of scholars who possess outstanding potential in language learning, who are committed to scholarly research and critical thinking in the long term, as well as to discover advanced talents and cultivate their mastery of fluent English and other languages, sophistication in cross-national, cross-regional and cross-cultural studies so as to meet the strategic demands posed by the development of China’s higher education and the nation’s strategic requirement.

Tsinghua Xuetang Artificial Intelligence Program

Chair professor Andrew Chi-Chih YaoThe Artificial Intelligence program was founded by Prof. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, world-leading computer scientist in 2019, with a view to cultivate high-achieving talents in the AI field. Aiming to establish a solid foundation in AI for students, the program offers a wide range of courses, spanning from core theoretical underpinnings in math and computer science to applications in robotics, finance, biology, health, psychology, etc. It also provides students with opportunities to participate in cutting-edge AI research and interdisciplinary research with other fields, to develop their skills and subject understanding on AI, and to tackle problems in related fields by coupling rigorous theory with real-world applications.