Overview

Founded in 1911, Tsinghua University is one of the most prestigious higher education institutions in China. Tsinghua has a strong ethos for nurturing exceptional pupils, and for advancing cutting-edge scientific research. Qiuzhen College was established at Tsinghua University in 2021 with the specific goal of cultivating future world-class mathematician. Qiuzhen enrolled its first class of undergraduate students in 2021, and has been accepting doctoral applications from students worldwide since 2023.

Highlights

—— World-Renowned Researchers

Leading mathematicians who have joined

Shing-Tung Yau

1982 Fields Medalist, MacArthur Fellow, and recipient of the Crawford Prize (1994), Wolf Prize (2010), and Marcel Grossman Award (2018); only mathematician to have received all five of these awards. Member of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.; Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Caucher Birkar

2018 Fields Medalist, Member of the Academia Europaea and the Royal Society. Expert in algebraic geometry.

Nicolai Reshetikhin

Well-known for the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant, he is a leading authority in representation theory and quantum field theory, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Kenji Fukaya

A key contributor in the development of symplectic geometry, the recipient of the 2025 Shaw Prize and Member of the Japan Academy.

Vladimir Markovic

A leading expert in quasiconformal mappings, Teichmüller theory and low-dimensional topology and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Yongchang Zhu

Internationally leading scholar in representation theory with strong contributions to vertex algebra operator theory.

Akito Futaki

A leading expert in differential geometry and a key contributor to our understanding of Kähler-Einstein metrics.

Sergio Cecotti

Expert in differential geometry.

—— Six Main Research Orientation

Analysis and Differential Equations

Algebra and Number Theory

Geometry and Topology

Probability and Statistics

Theoretical Physics

Computational and Applied Mathematics

—— Sufficient Financial Support of the Outstanding Students

Excellent students will find unique potential in Qiuzhen College! We have set up the Qiuzhen Outstanding Doctoral Students Program to provide a financial package comparable to that given to doctoral students at other world-class universities, such as Harvard or Princeton. This program will award scholarships to at least 5 incoming doctoral students annually. Eligible applicants will receive 200,000 RMB (about US$30,000) a year during their first two years of doctoral studies, the total funding period is up to five years based on applicants’ performance.

—— International Collaborations

Qiuzhen College has established exchange programs with multiple world-renowned international institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Oxford, and Cambridge. Qiuzhen’s exchange programs provide opportunities for short-term research visits at these institutions. Additionally, each year the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center invites over 300 mathematicians and researchers in related fields for research or academic visits, including lectures and workshops. (Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, many of these interactions currently are organized online.)

Programs for International Students 2026
Mathematics	(D)

(D)- Doctoral Programs

Contact

Qiuzhen College Official Website: https://qzc.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/

YMSC Official Website: http://ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn

Email: qzsyzs@tsinghua.edu.cn