Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, a high-level university focused on construction in Shanghai, a national "double first-class" construction university

Tongji University, referred to as "Tongji", is located in Shanghai. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China; a national "double first-class" construction university, a national "985 Project" and "211 Project" construction university

Shanghai University, located in Shanghai, is a comprehensive university affiliated to Shanghai, a national "Double First-Class" construction university, a national "211 Project" construction university, a university jointly built by the Ministry of Education and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, and selected into the national "111 Plan"

East China University of Science and Technology, referred to as ECUST, is located in Shanghai. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, covering 11 disciplines.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, referred to as "Shanghai Jiaotong University", is located in Shanghai. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, co-constructed by Shanghai, and directly managed by the central government.

Shanghai Ocean University, formerly known as Jiangsu Provincial Fisheries College, was founded in 1912 by Zhang Jian and Huang Yanpei. It is a multi-disciplinary applied research-based institution of higher education jointly established by Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, State Oceanic Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture, and was upgraded to China’s first undergraduate institution of fisheries---Shanghai Fisheries College in 1952. It was renamed as Shanghai Fisheries University in 1985 and Shanghai Ocean University in 2008. And in September, 2017, it was selected by Ministry of Education into the “Double First-Class Initiative” program for its First-Class Discipline of fisheries. The school motto was defined on September 1st, 1914 as “Diligence, Sincerity, Dedication and Practicality”.

Shanxi University, established in 1902, is in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, which has a history of 2,500 years. The school itself can be traced back to Sanli College, of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and Jinyang College and Lingde College, of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

Northeast Normal University, originally under the name "Northeast University", is the first comprehensive university founded by the Communist Party in Northeast China in 1946.

Located in the historic city of Xi'an, cradle of Chinese civilization and terminus of the ancient Silk Road, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) is the only multidisciplinary and research-oriented in China that is simultaneously developing education and research programs in the fields of aeronautics, astronautics, and marine technology engineering.

Yangzhou University (YZU) is co-sponsored by the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education of China. It is a key comprehensive university of Jiangsu Province, and one of the first universities authorized to grant both master's and doctoral degrees.