English schools in China
Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) was founded in Yan’an in 1940. BIT is a national key university, an open, international and research-oriented university of science, engineering and humanities with science and engineering as the focus.
It is one of the first universities to run a graduate school and receive privileged fund from the central government in “the 7th, 8th and 9th Five Year Plan.”
Facts(until the year of 2004):
Students: 37044
Graduate and secondary students: 16411
Master students: 5179
PhD students: 1904
Overseas students: 347
Distant program and vocational students: 12308
Faculty - Total:more than 3500
Academicians of Chinese Academy of Science: 9
Chang Jiang Scholars: 5
Professors (including researchers and professorial senior engineers): 376
Associate professors (including associate researchers and senior engineers): 906
Experts with outstanding contributions at the national level: 18
Recipients of special subsidies from the central government: 251
In order to improve the strength of the faculty, BIT attaches great importance on the import of talents. BIT appointed 174 visiting professors, 38 advisory professors and 6 honorary professors in China, plus, 45 overseas visiting professors and 12 honorary professors and conferred 2 honorary doctoral degree to Mr. Shaper from Germany and Mr. Sheffield from the USA.
Campus Size
The main campus of BIT occupies an area of 920,700 square meter, with a floor space of 724,000 square meter.
The construction area for Liangxiang Campus, Beijing is 2,000,000 square meter.
The construction area for Zhuhai 3,330,000 square meter.
Teaching
BIT has 11 academic schools and 43 research institutes (or research centers)
Education program: Undergraduate, Master, Continuous, Distant Vocational and Overseas students programs.
BIT has 11 state key disciplines, 25 ministerial disciplines. In 10 disciplines of the 1st level BIT is authorized to confer doctor and master degrees. It also has 14 post-doctorate stations, 57 disciplines authorized to confer doctor degrees, 89 disciplines authorized to confer master degrees and 2 major disciplines authorized to confer degrees, and 55 undergraduate majors.
Research
BIT has 3 State Key Labs, 4 Labs for State Key Discipline, 1 open Lab of State Education Ministry, 4 Key Labs of Beijing city.
The annual fund for research researched 620 million RMB. 33 awards for research at ministerial level or above; 2217 thesis, 577 thesis collected by Sci, Ei and ISR, 97 patents, 13 letters pattern.
Libraries
Total Collection: more than 1,150,000 items
Electronic journals and books: 350,000 items