Beijing Union University is a regular comprehensive higher education institution at municipal administrative level, established in 1985 with approval of China’s Ministry of Education. It was originally from college branches of Peking University, Tsinghua University and other universities in Beijing, which came into being in 1978. As a result of China’s reform and opening up to the outside world, in keeping with the economic construction of the capital and meeting the demands of the development of society, BUU has become a key multi-disciplinary university in Beijing, which trains application-oriented personnel mainly through regular undergraduate courses. It has formed the theme of “people-oriented, application-rooted”. Its guideline in running school is “to develop application oriented education, nurture application oriented personnel and construct application oriented university”, and its orientation is “ opening to the mass, contributing to the capital, basing on application and striving for the best”.

BUU currently consists of 17 colleges.

Today, BUU has established friendship relations with more than 30 universities and colleges from over a dozen countries and regions, including U.S.A, England, France, German, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, Holland and so on. Each year it sends teachers abroad for training or participating academic exchanges activities. Students exchange program expands continuously via many channels by which outstanding college students are selected to study overseas.