The university boasts a high-level faculty of 2,573 full-time teachers, including 1800 full or associate professors, 743 doctoral supervisors, 1713 supervisors for masters, 11 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academy of Engineering, 2 members of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, 12 members of the discipline review group of the State Council, 24 distinguished experts of the national “Thousand Talents Program”, 35 “Cheung Kong Scholar” Professors, 5 winners of the national awards for top teachers, 35 granted with funds from the National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation, 3 preeminent experts involved in the national high-tech development project known as “Program 863”, 1 expert in the International Science & Technology Program, 2 experts for national major special projects, and 19 selected into the Talents Project initiated by the Ministry of Personnel of China for the development of high-level professionals and technical talents.