Beijing Union University

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. Beijing Union University is committed to cultivating high-quality applied talents to meet the needs of the country's economic and social development, especially the capital. After more than 30 years of construction and development, the comprehensive strength of the university has been significantly enhanced, and 10 disciplines, such as economics, law, education, arts, history, science, engineering, medicine, management and art, have been formed, which support and coordinate each other's development The complete talent training system of coordinated development of education and continuing education is a key applied talent training base in Beijing and one of the largest universities in Beijing.

The school has 14 campuses, which are distributed in 6 urban areas of Beijing, forming a school running layout with the North Fourth Ring campus as the center and the combination of centralization and decentralization. The school headquarters is located in the North Fourth Ring campus on the east side of the National Olympic sports center with convenient transportation. The university has 14 Colleges: Applied Arts and Sciences College, normal college, business college, biochemical engineering college, tourism college, information college, mechanical and electrical college, automation college, management college, advertising college, special education college, applied science and Technology College, International Exchange College, and continuing education college.

The school now covers an area of more than 900 mu, with an area of about 400000 square meters, a library collection of nearly 2.35 million books, nearly 1600 full-time teachers and nearly 30000 full-time students, including more than 20000 undergraduates, nearly 6000 higher vocational students, more than 1500 foreign students and a certain number of postgraduates. There are more than 4000 adult education students. Over the past 30 years since its establishment, the university has trained more than 180000 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.

[coordinated development of discipline and specialty system]

In order to meet the needs of economic construction and social development of the country and the capital, Beijing Union University has continuously integrated and optimized the structure of disciplines and specialties, condensed the characteristics of disciplines and specialties, and initially formed a discipline and specialty system with optimized structure, reasonable layout, application characteristics and coordinated development of multiple disciplines.

At present, the university has 66 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 eight undergraduate specialties are Beijing Municipal characteristic specialty construction sites. One major has been approved as a national pilot of comprehensive reform of undergraduate major, and three majors have been approved as a pilot of comprehensive reform of undergraduate major in Beijing. For candidates to provide a broad choice of professional space.

The university now has five first-class master's degree authorization points in archaeology, computer science and technology, food science and engineering, software engineering and business administration, and one second-class master's degree authorization point in special history, covering 22 second-class master's degree authorization points. In 2012, the University cooperated with brother universities to establish two post doctoral research workstations, and recruited 9 master's degree students for the first time; Economic law, computer application technology, food science, special education, human geography and tourism management are the key disciplines in Beijing. To provide students with a good space for further development.

Harmonious teaching and research

Beijing Union University aims to cultivate high-quality applied talents with good basic quality, strong practical ability, innovative spirit and sense of social responsibility, with certain international vision, strong adaptability and sustainable development ability. Relying on quality engineering projects, it continuously deepens education and teaching reform. In recent years, the university has been approved five national characteristic specialty construction sites, four national excellent courses, nine national excellent teaching materials, one national talent training mode innovation experimental zone, one national experimental teaching demonstration center, one national off campus practice education base, one national teaching team, and has achieved a large number of landmark quality engineering projects in Beijing. In addition, since 2000, the university has also won more than 40 outstanding teaching achievement awards at the municipal and national levels in Beijing, 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 for the purpose of highlighting applied research, promoting discipline development, adhering to scientific and technological innovation, and serving the capital construction. It has one national food testing center and five municipal scientific research institutions, including Beijing Key Laboratory of bioactive substances and functional foods, Beijing Key Laboratory of information service engineering, Beijing science research base, and Beijing political science research center The Research Center for civilization construction and the Beijing Taiwan Cultural Exchange Center have 36 university level scientific research institutions, including the Food Science Research Institute, the Taiwan Research Institute, and the people's Congress System Research Institute. 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. The academic journals sponsored by the University, Journal of Beijing Union University and Journal of tourism, have an important influence both at home and abroad. Journal of Beijing Union University (HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES EDITION) has entered CSSCI source journals (Expanded Edition). Journal of tourism has been selected as one of the first 100 academic journals funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China, ranking seventh among "2012 China's most influential academic journals in the world", It ranks first in the journals sponsored by colleges and universities in China.

[rich and high quality education and teaching resources]

Beijing Union University has a relatively strong faculty, with 1584 full-time teachers. Among them, 685 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, 10 municipal famous teachers, 13 municipal top-notch innovative talents, 18 municipal top-notch young 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 individual development needs of students and promote the growth of students, Beijing Union University actively constructs a systematic and perfect mechanism for the growth of students; We will try out the system of double degree, second major and minor major, the system of main and minor major, double degree system, the system of changing major, school level experimental class and so on, so as to provide diversified growth channels for students of 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.

Foreign exchange and cooperation in various forms

Actively promoting internationalization is one of the major development strategies of the University. The University focuses on enriching students' foreign and overseas learning experience through various forms, and on creating an international learning atmosphere, so as to cultivate students' international awareness, broaden students' international vision, improve students' cross-country and cross-cultural understanding and communication ability, and enhance students' competition in the future world city construction power.

The University actively develops international / overseas cooperation in running schools to cultivate talents with international competitiveness. The university has established inter school cooperation and exchange relations with 121 universities in more than 30 countries and regions in America, Europe, Oceania and Asia. For example, we have carried out 3 + 1, 4 + 1 and 3 + 1 + 1 master's degree programs with Westminster University, Anglia Ruskin University and lohampton University; we have carried out student exchange programs and master's degree programs with emporia State University in the United States, and selected 30 excellent students to study in the university every semester; we have also carried out cooperation programs with Niigata University in Japan and South Korea

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