Why did the Big Four Institutes of Technology goers bring ladders? They wanted to take their education to a higher degree.

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Big Four Institutes of Technology

Simplified Chinese

四大工学院

Traditional Chinese

四大工學院

Transcriptions

The Big Four Institutes of Technology (simplified Chinese: 四大工学院; traditional Chinese: 四大工學院) are four institutes of technology after the national adjustment of colleges in 1950s.

List of 4 Institutes

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Institute	Location	Period	Renamed
Dalian Institute of Technology	Dalian	1950–1988	Dalian University of Technology
South China Institute of Technology	Guangzhou	1952–1988	South China University of Technology
Nanjing Institute of Technology	Nanjing	1952–1988	Southeast University
Huazhong Institute of Technology	Wuhan	1953–1988	Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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List of 4 Institutes

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