Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School

Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School 

Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (Tsinghua SIGS) is a public graduate education institution jointly established by Tsinghua University and the Shenzhen city government against the backdrop of efforts to deepen higher education reform and promote the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. 

Officially unveiled on March29, 2019, Tsinghua SIGS was founded as an expansion of the Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University (established in2001). It prioritizes the development of top engineering disciplines at Tsinghua University, complemented by the Innovation Management discipline. 

Tsinghua SIGS builds upon three distinctive strengths: innovation in graduate education and research, interdisciplinarity that breaks down conventional boundaries to solve real-world problems, and openness that fuels global collaboration, industry partnerships, and a vibrant, inclusive ecosystem for sustainable growth. 

Tsinghua SIGS aims to serve as a global magnet for outstanding minds, an international hub for nurturing future innovation leaders, and a cutting-edge center for addressing humanity’s most critical challenges, thereby contributing to both China and the world.

Campus Location 

Tsinghua SIGS is located in Shenzhen, one of the most dynamic cities in China. The city has long been a symbol of China’s reform and opening-up era, and the country’s powerhouse of foreign trade, innovation and advanced manufacturing. Often dubbed “China’s Silicon Valley”, Shenzhen is home to tech giants such as Tencent, BYD, Huawei, DJI and UBTECH. 

“6+1” Framework 

Tsinghua SIGS brings together dozens of disciplines within an innovative “6+1” framework, encompassing six frontier engineering fields with one non-engineering discipline. Each institute focuses on a strategic area of future development, forming a highly interconnected ecosystem that fosters interdisciplinary research and education. 

Its seven disciplines—Materials Science, Engineering Science, Environmental Science and Ecology, Computer Science, Clinical Medicine, Chemistry, and Biology and Biochemistry—are ranked in the top 1% in Clarivate Analytics' Essential Science Indicators. 

Talent Development 

Tsinghua SIGS places the utmost importance on talent development. It promotes a risk-taking, out-of-the-box learning environment. It aims to nurture innovative leaders with global competence through featured programs that offer students both leadership-oriented, interdisciplinary innovation practice courses and opportunities to engage in international activities.

Tsinghua SIGS regards industry-academia joint training as a key driver of engineering education reform. It collaborated with leading companies and industrial parks to jointly launch cultivation plans which allow postgraduate students to work at partner companies covering a wide range of industries, including power, materials, environment, computing, logistics, manufacturing, marine, construction, semiconductors, and robotics. 

Global Partnerships, Global Community 

Tsinghua SIGS is dedicated to promoting global academic cooperation to address complex global challenges. Through collaboration with leading universities worldwide, the school fosters global knowledge exchange, advance research and innovation across disciplines. The school has built a global network of 90 partner universities and institutions spanning 45 countries and regions. 

Meanwhile, Tsinghua SlGS is committed to fostering a truly global community

where students from diverse backgrounds live and learn together across cultures. Currently, over 460 international students from more than 70 countries and regions are learning at Tsinghua SIGS.