About

Launched in March of 2019, Tsinghua SIGS is a research and graduate education institution of Tsinghua University located in southern China. Building upon Tsinghua’s academic legacy and Shenzhen’s innovative resources, our students and faculty are dedicated to tackling global challenges through cutting-edge research and collaboration.

By diversifying faculty and student bodies, engaging in high-level collaboration with overseas partners, and internationalizing campus resources, Tsinghua SIGS cultivates students global competencies and nurture them as future global leaders.

By transcending boundaries between academic disciplines, industry and the surrounding community, Tsinghua SIGS openly shares resources and expertise to develop interdisciplinary solutions for global challenges beyond its physical location.

By exploring innovative forms of pedagogy and restructuring its academic governance and administrative systems, Tsinghua SIGS reshapes graduate education to meet rapidly changing industry needs.

Preparing future leaders for global challenges. At Tsinghua SIGS, our mission is to reshape graduate education as well as research and development to better serve local, national, regional, and global sustainable development. Here, we nurture the next generations of global leaders, tackle global challenges through international collaborations, and facilitate interdisciplinary research and industrial partnerships.

Leverage international resources, as well as technological and industrial advantages of Shenzhen and the Greater Bay area, explore new academic governance and administrative systems, and establish an innovation ecosystem driven by talents.

Expand our core faculty team to 250 members, with 1/5 from outside of mainland China, and reach 5000 students with 10% international students.

​Establish a full faculty team spanning our academic disciplines and increase enrollment to 8000 full-time graduate students; continue to build global partnerships and promote innovation in higher education to serve the sustainable development of Shenzhen, the Greater Bay Area, China and the world.

Tsinghua SIGS has set up academic disciplines that promote interdisciplinary research and learning. They include Materials Science, Data Science Information Technology, Biopharmaceutical Health Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Future Human Habitats, Environment Ecology and Innovation Management.