The Harbin Institute of Technology is a research university in China and a member of China's elite C9 League. HIT 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 graduate school 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 7th in the Best Global Universities for Engineering by U.S. News in 2016. HIT is one of only a handful of universities in the world that have designed, built, and launched their own satellites (in 2004, 2008 and 2013).