Beihang University

Beihang University is a Chinese university whose students and alumni show a strong affinity for aerospace and flight—so much so that a founder doing campus recruiting found the most enthusiastic responses came not from his own Zhejiang University but from Beihang and Northwestern Polytechnical University, because students there "naturally love flying" and chose the school for that reason . The university also feeds talent into hard-tech startups: Xu Wei, CTO of robotics perception company Manifold Tech (留形), earned his bachelor's and master's degrees there before pursuing a PhD at the University of Hong Kong , and the core team of space laser communications firm Helium Starlink (氦星光联) counts Beihang among its key recruiting grounds alongside Tsinghua, Peking University, CAS, and Harbin Institute of Technology .