Beijing Language and Culture University was established in 1962. In June 1964, it was designated as Beijing Language Institute. In June 1996, it was renamed as Beijing Language and Culture University, and simplified as Beijing Language University in 2002. BLCU, known as Little United Nations, is the only university of its kind in China that promotes Chinese all over the world and offers Chinese language and culture courses to foreign students as well as a multidisciplinary university featured in language teaching and research. Since its foundation in 1962, BLCU has been an important academic base for language and culture research and the cradle for international talents in China.

Beijing Foreign Studies University, or the BFSU, is a prestigious university in China and under the direct management of the State Ministry of Education. As the first foreign language university and offering the most language programs in the country, it excels in the teaching and studying of foreign languages, foreign literature, overseas sinology, and also serves as an important base producing quality professionals with language competence and global vision.

  Founded in 1956, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (BUCM) is one of the earliest established higher education institutions for Chinese medicine in the People’s Republic of China. BUCM is directly under the supervision of China’s Ministry of Education and has been appointed as a participant in the China "211 Project”, a national development project committed to achieving first-class international-level education and scholarship.
        BUCM consists of 13 schools and offers degree programs at undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels in Chinese Medicine. The schools are:School of Preclinical Medicine, the First School of Clinical Chinese Medicine (Dong Zhi Men Hospital), the Second School of Clinical Chinese Medicine (Dong Fang Hospital), the Third School of Clinical Chinese Medicine (the Third Affiliated Hospital), School of Chinese Materia Medica, School of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Tuina, School of Management, School of Nursing, School of Humanities, Graduate School, International School, School of Continuing Education and School of Distance Learning.

  As one of the key national universities directly under the Ministry of Education in China, Beijing Forestry University (BFU) provides the advanced education in the studies of forestry and ecological environment. It was one of the first universities to be admitted into the "211 Project" (the major project sponsored and funded by the government for the construction of top 100 key universities in China in the 21st century) and the 21st-century Educational Vitalization Action Program.

     Located in the internationally well-known Zhong Guan Cun Hi-Tech Zone, the university was originally the forestry department of the Royal University (the predecessor of Beijing University) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). After the foundation of the university in 1952, a number of distinguished experts and professors from Peking University (now Beijing University), Tsinghua University and Beijing Agriculture University were transferred to the university, which has inherited their rigorous style and discipline in academic pursuits. Decades of effort has developed it into a comprehensive university characterized by forestry, environmental science and biology, with well-coordinated multi-disciplines of science, engineering, management, economics, law, liberal arts and agriculture.

China Agricultural University (CAU), directly subordinated to the Ministry of Education, is one of the top ranked key national universities in China. CAU President is appointed by the Central Government.

As the oldest agricultural higher education institution in China, CAU’s history can be dated back to October 1905, when the College of Agriculture was founded by the Qing Dynasty in the Jing Shi Da Xue Tang (the former Imperial University of Peking and the present Peking University).

When the People’s Republic was established in 1949, Beijing Agricultural University (BAU) was founded by merging of three colleges of agriculture, namely College of Agriculture of Peking University, College of Agriculture of Tsinghua University and College of Agriculture of North China University. Beijing Agricultural Mechanization College (BAMC) was established in 1952 by joining together BAU’s Department of Agricultural Machinery, North China Agricultural Machinery College and the Ministry of Agriculture’s Tractor School. BAMC was renamed Beijing Agricultural Engineering University (BAEU) in 1985. Finally in 1995, China Agricultural University was formed by merging BAU and BAEU. The former Chinese President JIANG Zemin penned CAU’s name in Chinese calligraphy.

CAU's Centennial Celebration and World Agriculture Congress were grandly opened at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 16 September 2005. The World University Presidential Forum as the main component of the Congress was also opened on the same day. More than 300 delegates of 128 universities, colleges and institutes from 24 countries actively participated in the event, marking it a milestone in CAU’s history.

CAU owns a total campus area of 157 hectares, of which constructed area is over 1.22 million square meters.

China University of Geosciences is a university that deserves great praise because of the achievements of outstanding persons. The university has shaped its own traditions and demeanours of being self-supporting and realistic. Up to now, the university has cultivated over 100,000 graduates. They are engaged in their own fields and they have dedicated themselves to the development of the country. Many of them have become academic elites, outstanding politicians, business tycoons and even excellent athletes. Premier Wen Jiabao and 27 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Engineering are some of the exceptional representatives from this university.

There is great enthusiasm in this whole university. It was born under a ministry-run system. In a new era with rapid development of higher education, the management of this university was transferred to the Ministry of Education. This has provided new opportunities for the development of CUG. The university is presently located on the shore of the beautiful East Lake beside the National Development Zone of High and New Technologies and Wuhan Guanggu of China. The transportation is convenient and the environment is beautiful. On campus, one can experience the pleasant surroundings of nature being able to see blue skies, clean lakes, several green trees and well-kept lawns. The entire environment makes CUG an ideal and conducive place for all students to pursue their studies.

Over more than fifty years, the people of CUG have been forging ahead, keeping pace with the times, and carrying out innovations. They have caught hold of the opportunities brought about by the reforms and achieved rapid progress with their intelligence and efforts. Today, CUG has changed from just a geological college with a single discipline to a comprehensive university offering multi-disciplines such as Geology, Resources, Environment and Geological Engineering technology as the main features. There is also the coordinate development of Sciences, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management, Economics, Education and Law.

China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) is one of the key national universities under the direct administration of the China’s Ministry of Education. It is also one of the universities which host a graduate school with the approval of the Ministry of Education, and one of that in the national "211 project”, a government program designed to support and improve top-level institutions of higher learning in China.

CUMT grew out of Jiaozuo School of Railroad and Mines, which was established in 1909 and was later expanded and renamed Jiaozuo Institute of Technology. In 1950, Jiaozuo Institute of Technology moved to Tianjin and was renamed the China Institute of Mining and Technology (CIMT). It became the first higher learning institution in the field of mining in China.

In 1952, during a national readjustment of higher learning institutions, the mining engineering departments of Tsinghua University and the now-defunct Beiyang and Tangshan Railroad Universities were merged into CIMT. In 1953, the Institute moved to Beijing and was renamed Beijing Institute of Mining and Technology (BIMT), where it became one of the eight most renowned institutes in Beijing. In 1960, BIMT was rated a key university in the nation. During the period of the Cultural Revolution, it moved to Sichuan Province and was renamed the Sichuan Institute of Mining and Technology. In 1978, with the approval of the State Council, a new campus was established in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, with the school name restored to CIMT, and was rated by the government as one of China’s 88 key state universities.

In 1988, the institution was formally renamed the China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), and in 1997, a second campus in Beijing was established with the approval of the Ministry of Education.

China University of Petroleum, Beijing Campus (CUP), is located in a scenic region of tourist interest in Changping County, Beijing, about 5 miles to the Ming Tombs and 15 miles to the Great Wall. CUPB offers not only engineering programs in oil and gas science including chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, geoscience and mechanical and electronic engineering, but also , in computer science, business management and Chinese Language Study programs of a full range from diploma, bachelor's and master's to doctoral programs.

For its great achievements in education and research, the university, as a national key university, has successfully passed the prejudication conducted by all the authorized organizations of different levels for a government-launched "211 Project" , and has been selected as one of the first institutions implementing the project by China State Educational Ministry. It has also be selcted by the Government as one of the top universiies to implement "985" project. .

The university has 4 faculties, 5 departments and 3 schools and 1 research center, offering 25 bachelor's , 99 master's and 32 Ph.D. programs and one diploma program in Chinese Language Study. It has 13 research institutes, 31 research groups, 30 laboratories, 5 centers, and 2 national key laboratories.

North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), is founded in 1958, firstly named Beijing Electric Power Institute, then after relocated to Hebei during the "great proletarian cultural revolution”, it changed its name to Hebei Electric Power Institute and North China Electric Power Institute. In 1995, it merged with Beijing Institute of Economic Momentum, and founded the North China Electric Power University. The school spirit "Perseverance, Solidarity, Devotion, Eminence” formed during NCEPU’s development, has been playing a key role in achieving the prosperity of NCEPU.

      The campus covers a building area of over 1 million square meters. The university library covers a collection of nearly 2 million books. Being open to students from all over China, the university has, at present, more than 27,000 full-time students, including more than 6,800 post-graduates. For many years, NCEPU has enjoyed the graduates’ employment rate of over 96%.

      NCEPU possesses a high-quality teaching staff with a total number of 1,760 professional teachers, including 347 professors, 5 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2 "Cheung Kong Scholars”, 4 chief scientists of "973” Program, 3 winners of the National Science Fund for Outstanding Youth, 7 candidates of the National Project of "Hundred, Thousand, Ten Thousand” Professionals, 21 candidates of the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, and 3 groups get into the "Changjiang Scholar and innovation group developing program”. What’s more, 2 bases have been enlisted onto the "University Disciplines Innovation and Talent Introduction Plan” (also called "111 Plan”) jointly implemented by Ministry of Education and State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, P.R. of China.

 Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), founded in 1955, is a university directly under the administration of the Ministry of Education (MoE) and co-built by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology(MIIT). BUPT is one of the first "Project 211” universities. BUPT has also joined the "Project 985 Innovation Platform for Superior Discipline”. BUPT is a comprehensive university with information technology as its main feature, engineering and science as its main focus and a combination of engineering, management, humanities and sciences as its main pursuit, which becomes an important base for fostering high-tech talents.

BUPT has 14 teaching units, three research institutes and one graduate school. The 14 teaching units include the School of Information and Communication Engineering, School of Electronic Engineering, School of Computer Science, School of Automation, School of Software Engineering, School of Sciences, School of Economics and Management, School of Public Management, School of Digital Media and Design Arts, School of Humanities, International School, School of E-learning (Continuing Education), School of Ethnic Minority Education, Teaching and Research Center for Marxism. The three research institutes are Institute of Network Technology, Institute of Information Photonics and Optical Communications as well as Institute of Intelligent Sensing Technology. The Schools and Institutes mentioned above cover disciplines of engineering, science, management, economics, philosophy, law, education, humanity and art

Beijing University of Chemical Technology (hereinafter BUCT) is a state key university directly under the Ministry of Education and a key university of the national "211” Project, whereby China plans to build about 100 key universities and colleges in the 21st century.
It consists of 12 colleges (the College of Materials Science and Engineering, the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, the College of Information Science and Technology, the College of Science, the College of Life Science and Technology, the College of Humanities and Law, the College of Economic Management, the College of Chemical Engineering & Technology, the College of Further Education, and the College of Vocational Education,and the College of Marxism,and the College of International Education), offering 24 doctoral specialties, 50 masters programs and 44 bachelors programs.

1 Chemical Engineering and Technology       17 Industry Design (for art only)                 
2 Environmental Engineering                       18 Processing Equipment and Controlling Engineering
3 Polymer Materials and Engineering            19 Mechanical Engineering and Automation  
4 Materials Science and Engineering             20 Automation
5 Biological Functional Materials                   21Testing and Controlling Technology and Instruments
6 Biological Engineering                              22 Computer Science and Technology          
7 Biological Technology                               23 Electronic Information Engineering         
8 Pharmaceutical Engineering                      24 Communication Engineering
9 Materials Chemistry                                 25 Information Management and Information System           
10 Elaborated Chemical Engineering            26 International Economics and Trade        
11 Modern Instrument Analysis                   27 Industrial and Commercial Management
12 Mathematics and Applied Mathematics     28 Logistics Management 
13 Information and Computation Science     29 Law                  
14 Financial Mathematics                            30 English
15 Electronic Science and Technology          31 Social Physical Education
16 Safety Engineering                  

The University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) was founded in 1952 following the amalgamation of the best departments in related fields of five eminent universities as a result of a nationwide reorganization of the higher education system. Over half a century of remarkable growth, it has developed into one of the most influential key national universities sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Education. USTB is renowned for its study of metallurgy and materials science. Its main focus is on engineering;at the same time it maintains a balanced programme of science, management, humanities, economics and law. It was one of the first universities to be entitled to establish state-approved graduate schools and was chosen to be part of China's "211 Project", which is designed to develop a hundred first rate universities in the 21st century. In 2006 it was also selected as one of a select group of pilot universities for the "Platform for National Advanced Disciplines Innovation" program.
         USTB values greatly and will for ever cherish its long tradition of being "Rigorous in Learning and Research and Venerating Practice". Over 100,000 graduates are contributing to society all over the world; most of them have become professionals and joined our national elites in the field of politics, economics, science and education. As metallurgy and materials science are the two disciplines for which it is most renowned, USTB is also known as "the cradle of iron and steel engineers" .

Beijing Institute of Technology is one of the national key universities in China, an open, public, research-oriented university with a focus on science and technology. The 10th university to enter the 985 Project, which started in order to develop 39 Chinese universities that would seek to become world renowned universities.One of the first 15 universities to join 211 Project which established roughly 100 universities to cope with the challenges of the 21st century. Annual research fund in 2011 amounts to 160 million Euros ranking in the top 10 in China.

Received more than 130 national awards of science and technology over the past 30 years, ranking among the top 10 in China. According to the first national program evaluation from 2002 to 2004 by MOE, 1/3 of the programs in BIT were evaluated as national key programs.
 
BIT is one of the 1st universities to run a graduate school and one of the key universities supported by the central government in each Five-Year Plan since the foundation of the P. R. China. BIT receives considerable trilateral supports and endowments under the agreement signed by the Ministry of Education, the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, and the Beijing Municipal Government in September 2000.

BIT is now under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (referred to as "BUAA”) was founded in 1952, and it was formed by merging aeronautics departments of eight universities including Tsinghua University, Peiyang University, Xiamen University and Sichuan University, etc., and is New China’s first Aeronautics and Astronautics institution of higher education, and now it is affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and Information. The school is divided into the campus on Xueyuan Road and Campus Shahe, covering an area of 3,000mu, with a total construction area of more than 1,500,000m2. Since the school was founded, BUAA has been a university under national key construction. It is one of the first batch of 16 key universities, as well as one of 22 first batch of universities with postgraduate schools set after academic degree system recovery in 1980s, and it is the first batch to enter into "Project 211”, "Project 985” in 2001, and in 2013 it is the first batch of "2011 Plan” national center for collaborative innovation. After 60 years’ construction and development, the school basically forms the core competitiveness of research-oriented university, its internal cohesion and influence in domestic and overseas have an obvious improvement, which ascends in the first phalanx of domestic high-level universities.

The University is located in Beijing’s Haidian District, which is known as China’s "Home of Higher Education”. To the north of the University is Zhongguancun, which is known as China’s "Silicon Valley”. The University covers an area of 73 acres and is composed of east and west campuses. The campuses have complete facilities and beautiful environment. Today, besides the Graduate School, the School of Distance Learning and Continuing Education and BJTU Haibin College – an independent college located in Huanghua City, Hebei Province, the University has 14 academic faculties and the Department of Physical Education, namely, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, School of Computer and Information Technology, School of Economics and Management, School of Traffic and Transportation, School of Civil Engineering, School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, School of Science, School of Marxism, School of Languages and Communication Studies, School of Software Engineering, School of Information Secret and Security Technology, and School of Art and Architecture.

Over the past hundred years, after arduous efforts of generations, BJTU has developed into a key base for training talents tackling vital problems concerning technologies and policies in reforming and modernizing railway as well as national economic and social progress. Now, based on the strengths in information engineering and economic management and specialty in traffic and transportation, the University is aiming at building an open and multidisciplinary national research university, that features Engineering, Management, Economics, Science and Humanities and is first rate in China and well known in the world.

Tsinghua University was established in 1911, originally under the name "Tsinghua Xuetang”. The school was renamed "Tsinghua School" in 1912. The university section was founded in 1925. The name "National Tsinghua University” was adopted in 1928.

The faculty greatly valued the interaction between Chinese and Western cultures, the sciences and humanities, the ancient and modern. Tsinghua scholars Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao, Chen Yinque and Zhao Yuanren, renowned as the "Four Tutors" in the Institute of Chinese Classics, advocated this belief and had a profound impact on Tsinghua's later development.

Tsinghua University was forced to move to Kunming and join with Peking University and Nankai University to form the Southwest Associated University due to the Resistance War against the Japanese Invasion in 1937. In 1946 The University was moved back to its original location in Beijing after the war.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the University was molded into a polytechnic institute focusing on engineering in the nationwide restructuring of universities and colleges undertaken in 1952. In November 1952, Mr. Jiang Nanxiang became the President of the University. He made significant contributions in leading Tsinghua to become the national center for training engineers and scientists with both professional proficiency and personal integrity.

Since China opened up to the world in 1978, Tsinghua University has developed at a breathtaking pace into a comprehensive research university. At present, the university has 14 schools and 56 departments with faculties in science, engineering, humanities, law, medicine, history, philosophy, economics, management, education and art. The University has now over 25,900 students, including 13,100 undergraduates and 12,800 graduate students. As one of China’s most renowned universities, Tsinghua has become an important institution for fostering talent and scientific research.

The educational philosophy of Tsinghua is to "train students with integrity." Among over 120,000 students who have graduated from Tsinghua since its founding are many outstanding scholars, eminent entrepreneurs and great statesmen remembered and respected by their fellow Chinese citizens.

With the motto of "Self-Discipline and Social Commitment” and the spirit of "Actions Speak Louder than Words”, Tsinghua University is dedicated to the well-being of Chinese society and to world development.

Renmin University of China (RUC) is one of the key research-oriented universities in China, focusing on arts and humanities as well as embracing disciplines of natural sciences. It can be traced back to Shanbei Public School founded in 1937 and later the North China United University, Northern University and North China University. On October 3rd 1950, the North China University was renamed as Renmin University of China which was the first modern university founded by People’s Republic of China.

Currently, RUC has developed a multidimensional and multilevel teaching and research structure. RUC puts the undergraduate education as the foundation and postgraduate education as its priority, with adult education and on-line teaching as supplements. RUC enjoys integrated advantage in terms of arts and humanities, social sciences, education and research.

RUC is composed of one graduate school, 23 schools, 14 university-level research centers and 15 post-doctoral stations in addition to Physical Education Department, School of Continuing Education, School of Training, International College (Suzhou Research Institute) and ShenZhen Research Center. It has five national research bases in fundamental disciplines in liberal arts, 13 key national research centers in arts and humanities, eight national first-degree key disciplines, and eight national second-degree key disciplines. Among its 1850 faculty numbers, 537 are professors, 652 are assistant professors and 688 are Ph.D. supervisors. The total student population of RUC is 24565. Among them, 11261 are undergraduate students and 11203 are postgraduates, representing the highest ratio of graduate to undergraduate students of all the universities in China. RUC is authorized to grant bachelor degree in 68 majors, second bachelor degree in eight majors, 174 master degree (including 33 self-granted ones) and 109 doctor degree (including 24 self-granted PhD stations). It has 20 first-level Ph.D. disciplines and 9 associate bachelor majors and 11 bachelor majors in adult education.

Till the end of 2011, RUC has established academic relations with 193 universities in 53 countries and regions. RUC has 1921 international students on campus.

RUC believes that development is everything that matters and thus is making its due contribution to implementing the national strategy of "rejuvenating the country with science and technology.” With an open mind and a diligent working attitude, RUC honors innovation and develops itself in line with the times. Now, RUC is intensifying its efforts in building up a first class university that satisfies the people and is recognized in the international academic community.

Peking University is a comprehensive and national key university. The campus, known as "Yan Yuan"（the garden of Yan）, is situated at Haidian District in the western suburb of Beijing, with a total area of 2,743,532 square metres (or 274 hectares). It stands near to the Yuanmingyuan Garden and the Summer Palace.

Peking University is proud of its outstanding faculty, including 53 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 7 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and 14 members of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).

The university has effectively combined research on important scientific subjects with the training of personnel with a high level of specialized knowledge and professional skill as demanded by the country's socialist modernization. It strives not only for improvements in teaching and research work, but also for the promotion of interaction and mutual promotion among various disciplines.  

Thus Peking University has become a center for teaching and research and a university of a new type, embracing diverse branches of learning such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, and sciences of medicine, management, and education. Its aim is to rank among the world's best universities in the future.