Peiyang University, the first Univerity of Chinese
The first university of Chinese, Peiyang University is hidden by his “modern” name “Tianjin University”, also with his glorious history.
There’re some introductions of Peiyang University on Internet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiyang_university
http://baike.baidu.com/view/63906.htm
http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%8C%97%E6%B4%8B%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6&variant=zh-hans
* 1895 Peiyang University founded
* 1899 The first Diploma in China granted
* 1907 Developed into a comprehensive university integrating Engineering with Liberal Arts, Law and Education.
* 1935 The first group of graduate students enrolled
* 1937 The first Master’s Degree conferred
* 1951 Merged with Hebei Technical College, renamed as Tianjin University
* 1958 The first Library (floor area of 14423m²) established
* 1959 Became one of the first 16 National Key Universities
* 1981 The first group of PhD students enrolled
* 1984 The Graduate School founded
* 1985 The first Doctor’s Degree conferred
* 1995 100th Anniversary
* 1999 National University Science Park built to facilitate knowledge transfer
* 2000 Priority support Obtained from the Ministry of Education of China and Municipal Government of Tianjin for further development