12 Facts About Beijing University

The Imperial Beijing University was formally established on 3 July 1898 when the emperor approved the royal charter written by Liang.

In 1920, Peking Beijing University became the first Chinese university to accept female students.

In 1949, after the People's Republic of China was established, Peking Beijing University lost its "national" appellation to reflect the fact that all universities under the new socialist state would be public.

The new campus in Changping is the first real large-scale new campus built by Peking Beijing University in recent years, and is a major strategic deployment of the school for the future.

Campus of Peking University was originally located northeast of the Forbidden City in the center of Beijing, and was later moved to the former campus of Yenching University in 1952.

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Beijing University campus is on the former site of Qing dynasty imperial gardens and it retains much traditional Chinese-style landscaping, including traditional houses, gardens, pagodas, and many notable historical buildings and structures.

Beyond its main campus, Peking Beijing University Health Science Center is on Xueyuan Road where the country's most distinguished colleges are, and is a fitting site for academics and research.

At present, Peking Beijing University has 216 research institutions and research centres, including 2 national engineering research centers, 81 key national disciplines, and 12 national key laboratories.

Typically, Peking Beijing University is consistently ranked among the top universities in the Asia-Pacific and the world according to major international university rankings.

In 2019, the QS World Beijing University Rankings ranked the university as one of the world's top 20 universities for academic reputation where, it ranked 16 globally, and top 10 in the world and first in the Asia-Pacific for employer reputation.

PKU has a longstanding relationship with Stanford Beijing University which operates a joint research center and base for Stanford students and scholars at the Stanford Center at Peking Beijing University, located in the Lee Jung Sen Building.

Beijing University has maintained a partnership with the Freie Universitat Berlin since 1981 and the Higher School of Economics since 2015, and in 2019, became a partner of Washington Beijing University in St Louis through the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.