School profile

Beijing Union University is a comprehensive university of Beijing, which was established in 1985 with the approval of the Ministry of education. Its predecessor was 36 branch schools founded by Tsinghua University and Peking University in 1978. After more than 30 years of construction and development, the comprehensive strength of the university has been significantly enhanced, forming a complete talent training system with mutual support and coordinated development of 10 disciplines, such as economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, medicine, management and art, focusing on undergraduate education and coordinated development of graduate education, higher vocational education, continuing education and international student education. It is a key applied person in Beijing Talent training base is also one of the largest universities in Beijing.

The university implements the strategy of "building the University by learning, strengthening the University by talents, and revitalizing the University by opening to the outside world", constantly promotes connotative development, and strives to build a high-level, characteristic, urban and application-oriented university with Beijing People's satisfaction. Since its establishment, the university has trained more than 200000 graduates for the country. They are active in all walks of life in the country's economic and social construction. Many graduates have become leaders and business backbones of government departments and large enterprises.

The main campus (North Fourth Ring campus) is adjacent to the Olympic central area, and there are seven separate sub campuses, covering an area of more than 600 mu, with a construction area of more than 500000 square meters. The library has a collection of nearly 2.75 million books, nearly 1600 full-time teachers and more than 20000 full-time students, including 19000 undergraduates, more than 800 higher vocational students, more than 400 graduate students and more than 1100 international students. The school also has nearly 5000 adult education students.

The school now has 14 colleges, including applied arts and Sciences College, normal college, business college, biochemical engineering college, tourism college, continuing education college, smart city college, robotics college, urban rail transit and Logistics College, management college, special education college, art college, applied science and Technology College, Marxism college, etc.

[coordinated development of discipline and specialty system]

The University actively adapts to the needs of the economic construction and social development of the country and the capital, constantly integrates and optimizes the structure of disciplines and specialties, condenses the characteristics of disciplines and specialties, and initially forms a discipline and specialty system with optimized structure, reasonable layout, obvious application-oriented characteristics, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines.

At present, the university has 64 undergraduate majors, involving 10 disciplines such as economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, art and medicine. Five undergraduate specialties are national characteristic specialty construction sites, and seven undergraduate specialties are Beijing Municipal characteristic specialty construction sites. One major has been approved as the national pilot of comprehensive reform of undergraduate major, three majors have been approved as the pilot of comprehensive reform of undergraduate major in Beijing, and two majors have been approved as the first batch of first-class majors in Beijing Municipal universities. For candidates to provide a broad choice of professional space.

The university has nine academic master's degree authorized disciplines, including archaeology, software engineering, computer science and technology, food science and engineering, business administration, Chinese history, geography, design science, and Marxist theory. It has finance, law, education, traditional Chinese medicine, machinery, transportation, news and communication, cultural relics and museums, accounting, library and information, and tourism management There are 11 professional master's degree authorization categories, and 12 secondary disciplines. Among them, the field of Vocational and technical education is the pilot field of master of education in the degree Office of the Ministry of education. Six disciplines, namely, economic law, computer application technology, food science, special education, human geography and tourism management, are the key construction disciplines in Beijing, 10 are school level key disciplines, and 21 are school level key construction and cultivation disciplines, providing students with good space for further development.

Harmonious teaching and research

The school aims to cultivate high-quality application-oriented talents with good basic quality, strong practical ability, innovative spirit and sense of social responsibility, certain international vision, strong adaptability and sustainable development ability. Relying on quality engineering projects, the school constantly deepens education and teaching reform. In recent years, the university has been approved five national characteristic specialty construction sites, four national excellent courses, two national excellent resource sharing courses, two national video open courses, nine national excellent teaching materials, 15 undergraduate planning teaching materials for general higher education in the 12th Five Year Plan, one National Talent Training Mode Innovation Experimental Zone, two national experimental teaching demonstration centers, and one national virtual teaching center It plans to build one experimental teaching center, one national off campus practice education base and one national teaching team, and has achieved a large number of landmark quality engineering projects in Beijing. In addition, the school has also won more than 40 outstanding teaching achievement awards at Beijing Municipal and national levels, and has undertaken nearly 40 projects of national education science planning and Beijing Municipal Education Commission education and teaching reform.

Over the years, the university has carried out scientific research with the purpose of highlighting applied research, promoting discipline development, adhering to scientific and technological innovation, and serving the capital construction. It has one national scientific research platform - National Key Laboratory of smart tourism, and eight Beijing municipal scientific research platforms - Beijing Key Laboratory of bioactive substances and functional foods, Beijing science research base, and Beijing Information Service Center It has two academician workstations, Li Deyi and Zhou Chenghu, and two postdoctoral research centers, including the Key Laboratory of engineering, Beijing Taiwan cultural exchange research center, Beijing Key Laboratory of biomass waste recycling, Beijing intelligent machinery innovation design service engineering technology research center, Beijing political civilization construction research base and Beijing tourism informatization Collaborative Innovation Center Research workstation. The school also has 37 scientific research institutions at the school level, such as the Food Science Research Institute, Taiwan Research Institute, people's Congress System Research Institute, etc. Since 2010, the university has undertaken more than 1400 scientific research projects and topics at all levels, and obtained annual scientific research funds, ranking among the top universities in Beijing. Journal of Beijing Union University and Journal of tourism, sponsored by the University, have an important influence at home and abroad. Journal of Beijing Union University (HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES EDITION) has been selected as the source journal of CSSCI for seven consecutive years. Journal of tourism has been selected as "China's most influential academic journal in the world" for six consecutive years. In 2014, it was rated as China's humanities journal Authoritative journal of social science.

[rich and high quality education and teaching resources]

Beijing Union University has a relatively strong faculty, with nearly 1600 full-time teachers. Among them, 833 have senior titles, and 17 hold the posts of director, deputy director and member of the new teaching steering committee and industry Steering Committee of the Ministry of education. There are 1 national excellent teacher, 1 million talents in the new century, 15 Beijing Municipal distinguished professors, 10 Beijing Great Wall scholars, 18 municipal famous teachers, 13 municipal top-notch innovative talents, 54 Municipal Youth top-notch talents and 192 municipal young and middle-aged backbone teachers. There is one teacher who has won the title of excellent teacher like Meng Erdong in Beijing. It has one national teaching team and eight Beijing Municipal teaching teams. At present, the school has formed a teaching staff with reasonable age, education background, professional title, high quality, strong ability and excellent business.

The university teaching community in Xueyuan Road area is composed of 19 universities including Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing University of science and technology and Beijing Union University. As the governing unit and member school of Xueyuan Road teaching community, our students can take inter school high-quality courses involving literature, art, sports, medicine, natural science and other disciplines of other member schools, minor in various majors of other member schools, obtain minor certificates, enjoy rich high-quality teaching resources, appreciate different campus cultures, and broaden students' horizons In order to improve the students' comprehensive quality, enhance their entrepreneurial competitiveness and social adaptability, we should strengthen their ability of innovation and knowledge.

Beijing's high-quality education resources are gathered, and the internationalization level is leading in the country. The university makes full use of Beijing's geographical advantages, actively introduces high-quality education and teaching resources at home and abroad through inter school visits, lectures by famous teachers, visiting professors and other channels and forms, provides a platform for students to receive international education, strives to realize the effective connection of high-quality education at home and abroad, and is committed to cultivating high-quality applied talents with international vision.

[systematic and perfect student growth mechanism]

In order to meet the personalized development needs of students and promote their growth and success, the University actively constructs a systematic and perfect mechanism for students' growth and success: actively promotes the credit system reform pilot; tries out the double degree, second major and minor major system, main (minor) major system, double degree system, specialty transfer system, school level experimental class, etc., so as to provide diversified growth and success channels for students at different levels 。

Relying on the national and Beijing Talent Training Mode Innovation Experimental Zone, the school has set up three school level experimental classes of software engineering, finance and tourism management talents training to carry out targeted and innovative education for excellent talents. The experimental class is well-equipped with teachers. It employs well-known professors and backbone of well-known enterprises as double tutors. It employs well-known teachers inside and outside the school as lecturers. The teaching proportion of well-known teachers at the municipal level is not less than 50%. The students in the experimental class enjoy various preferential policies: those with excellent results are given priority to participate in Sino foreign cooperative education projects, and the proportion of students sent abroad by the government to study or exchange is not less than 50%; they enjoy special self-study classrooms with good environment; they enjoy separate scholarships and technical practice and entrepreneurship funds; the school also sets up special funds to support the teaching construction and reform of the experimental class.

International exchanges and cooperation in various forms

Actively promoting internationalization is one of the major development strategies of the University. The University focuses on building various platforms to enrich students' overseas learning experience and create an international learning atmosphere, so as to cultivate students' international awareness, broaden students' international vision and enhance their competitiveness in the construction of international communication center in the future.

The university has established inter school cooperation and exchange relations with 255 institutions in 52 countries and regions in Asia, Europe and America. Encourage the exchange of students, organize Sino foreign cooperative education projects (Institutions), credit exchange projects, undergraduate double degree projects, undergraduate and postgraduate programs, etc.

China's one belt, one road initiative, China, central and Eastern Europe "16+1" cooperation and Beijing "four centers" construction and other centers have participated in, organized and organized several high-level forums and conferences, helping to build and develop the national diplomacy and capital, expand the international influence of schools, and raise the level of internationalization of schools. In July 2018, it co sponsored the first "forum on sustainable development of urban rail transit" with Beijing Jiaotong University and Russia Jiaotong University. In October 2018, the second annual meeting of China Central and Eastern Europe "16 + 1" tourism school alliance was held, which had a great impact on the education circles at home and abroad. In 2019, the sixth President Forum of China Russia Jiaotong University was held in Beijing, focusing on the development of education, transportation and other fields in the new era.

The University actively introduces advanced educational resources from foreign cooperative colleges and international advanced educational teaching experience and practices, implements the effective integration of educational internationalization and localization, and employs foreign teaching experts and local excellent bilingual teachers to carry out bilingual, all English teaching and non universal language teaching, so that students can receive advanced international education on campus. The international education of our school attracts students from all over the world. Every year, hundreds of international students study for degrees in our colleges.

Innovative development of Higher Vocational Education

Relying on the resources of Application-oriented Education, the University innovates and develops higher vocational education, and has basically formed a pattern of vocational education through training of junior college, undergraduate and master. At present, there are two master's degree enrollment qualifications in the field of mobile commerce interdisciplinary and vocational and technical education, 29 undergraduate majors undertake the training task of upgrading excellent higher vocational graduates from Beijing's independent higher vocational colleges, and 9 junior college enrollment majors. During the 12th Five Year Plan period, the school continues to strive to be the pioneer and leader of vocational education personnel training theory and practice. As the pilot unit of Beijing Municipal Government's comprehensive reform of education, the reform of grading system of Vocational Education in our school has created a large number of landmark achievements and had a huge social impact. In 2014, the research achievements of the connection between secondary and higher education and the connection between higher vocational education and college upgrading won the first and second prizes of national teaching achievements.

[talent training mode of paying equal attention to knowledge and practice]

The school attaches great importance to the cultivation of students' practical and innovative ability, and constantly strengthens the construction of practical teaching software and hardware environment, so as to create favorable conditions for the cultivation of high-quality applied talents. The school has built two national experimental teaching demonstration centers, one national virtual experimental teaching demonstration center, two municipal experimental teaching centers and 13 school level practical teaching centers. The University attaches great importance to the cooperative education of production, study and research, and has successively established professional construction and transformation, high-tech application, students' practical ability training and training bases inside and outside the university with well-known enterprises at home and abroad, such as Siemens company of Germany, LC company of the United States, China railway, China Railway Electrification group, China Railway Culture and tourism, Beijing Metro, Beijing Gongmei group, Pacific Insurance Company, Quanjude catering group, etc We have established a close cooperative relationship in the field of design. The off campus talent training bases of China first tourism group, capital museum, Beijing Municipal Archives and Beijing holding group were rated as Beijing Municipal off campus talent training bases, among which the off campus practice education base of China first tourism group was rated as national off campus practice education base for college students. IBM, Jinyu group and other enterprises have set up scholarships in the University. The school attaches great importance to the implementation of double certificate education, through a variety of policies and systems to encourage students to participate in more than 20 domestic and foreign authoritative technical grade certificate examination, and obtain various vocational qualification certificates or technical grade certificates.

The University also actively builds a practice platform for Subject Competitions and students' scientific and technological activities, and constructs a four level subject competition system of colleges, universities, cities and countries. To undertake the Beijing University computer application competition, and expand to the five provinces (cities, autonomous regions) of North China and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan University computer application competition. In the national mathematical modeling competition, the National Undergraduate Electronic Design Competition, the American undergraduate mathematical modeling competition, the national vocational college skills competition, the "Higher Education Society" cup oral English competition and other well-known competitions, they all obtained excellent results. The University encourages students to participate in scientific and technological innovation activities such as subject competitions through incentive policies such as credit awards, so as to cultivate students' innovation ability and practical ability and achieve fruitful results. It has won more than 300 provincial and ministerial level science and technology competition awards, including one gold award of "Challenge Cup" university students science and technology competition in Beijing and three second prizes of university students (liberal arts) computer design competition in China. The student art troupe won 22 awards in provincial and ministerial level competitions, among which the orchestra and dance troupe won the first prize of the second national college students' art performance.

Our school is one of the first batch of high-level sports team pilot colleges approved by Beijing. In the past five years, more than 40 national athletes have been trained. Our Aerobics athletes have won three championships in the World University Games and won the first place in the group total score in the Chinese University Students' health and vitality competition held by the Ministry of education for five times. He won two championships in the 2014 National Aerobics Championship. In 2015, he won two championships in the National Aerobics Championship. In 2016, he won two championships in the National College Students' vitality and health competition. In addition, our students also achieved good results for the Chinese delegation at the Paralympic Games in London and Rio.

(the above data is up to September 30, 2018)