With the central task of talent cultivation, Tsinghua aims to cultivate people who shoulder the mission and strive for excellence through a "Three-Pronged Approach" by integrating the shaping of values, the cultivating of skills and the imparting of knowledge. Students are expected to develop five essential qualities, namely, well-rounded character, solid and broad academic foundation, innovative thinking, global perspective and social commitment, achieving a combination of comprehensive development and individual development.

Through optimizing undergraduate programs, developing quality undergraduate courses and continuously improving the quality of undergraduate education, Tsinghua builds an undergraduate education system based on general education and integrating general education with disciplinary specialization to help students to become highly-competent, high-level, diversified and creative talents.

Tsinghua offers 91 undergraduate majors and 41 minors, covering 12 discipline categories, namely, science, engineering, literature, art, history, philosophy, economics, management, law, education, medicine and cross-disciplinary. As a comprehensive university, the structure and overall arrangement of majors of Tsinghua are characterized by engineering majors with collective advantages, literature, science, management and law majors with distinctive features, cross-disciplinary majors with diverse forms, and adapting to the needs of China's development.

The undergraduate programs of Tsinghua University are 4-year full-time study except for: a. Sculpture Program in Arts Division require 5 years; b. Clinical Medicine Program requires 8 years (Bachelor to Doctoral Degree). Most programs are taught in both Chinese and English, with some programs specifically offering English-taught courses. Bachelor's degree and graduation certificate will be awarded if the student finishes all the required course work and passes the thesis defense.

Starting from 2017, Tsinghua begins to integrate programs/majors into divisions and recruit students of undergraduate programs by division. There are 19 divisions open to international students. Upon arriving at Tsinghua University, students from most divisions will undergo the general curriculum of their divisions in their first academic year. By the end of the first academic year, the specific programs/majors will be confirmed. In the second academic year, students enter the relevant schools/departments for major study.