However, schools like Northwestern Polytechnical University or Dalian University of Technology are not well known, have poor physical infrastructure and inadequate faculty, and are of lower quality than some other institutions, such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, that recruit only graduate students and are not included among the key universities.
但諸如西北工業大學、大連理工大學等，知名度不高，建設基礎、教育資源不佳，還不如未列名的大陸研究機構如中國科學院、中國社會科學院等只招收研究生的學術機構。