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