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.
