Harbin Institute of Technology

The Harbin Institute of Technology (simplified Chinese: 哈尔滨工业大学; traditional Chinese: 哈爾濱工業大學; pinyin: Hā'ěrbīn Gōngyè Dàxué, abbreviated as HIT or 哈工大; Hā GōngDà) is a research university and a member of China's elite C9 League. HIT is a Chinese Ministry of Education Class A Double First Class University.It has three campuses, spanning the country from north to south: the Harbin campus in Heilongjiang Province, the Weihai campus in Shandong Province and the Shenzhen campus in Guangdong Province. HIT is consistently ranked as one of the top universities in the country with a focus on science and engineering. HIT was ranked 6th in the Best Global Universities for Engineering by U.S. News in 2017. HIT is one of the only handful of universities in the world that have designed, built, and launched their own satellites (in 2004, 2008 and 2013).