Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication (BIGC) was established in 1980, and has grown up as a general polytechnic university of technology, humanities, arts, and management. The university has six colleges, three teaching divisions, and three research centers.

Educational programs are diversified and distributed in three different levels, i.e., postgraduate, undergraduate and associate (vocational).

And full time programs and part time programs (correspondence) are available.

At present, BIGC has more than 660 faculty and staffs (about 350 full time teachers and 120 professors or associate professors) and 7,400 full-time students, amongst them, 100 graduate students, 5,600 undergraduate students and 1,700 vocational students, as well as 4,000 correspondence (adult) students.

The university has now 3 postgraduate programs offering master degree, 15 undergraduate programs offering bachelor degree and 10 associate programs.

All the programs are sharply focused at information, media and communication related areas.

Her graduates have been and will continue to be very active in and highly evaluated by graphic arts & printing, packaging, media, communication and art design industries. BIGC has earned high reputation and is very influential in these areas.