At the international and regional levels, it has established friendly and cooperative relations with many universities in France, Italy, Britain, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and carried out various forms of exchanges and cooperation through academic exchanges, student activities and teacher training. Hong Kong Summer Foundation, Italian Giovanni Valentino Company, American Playboy Company, Hong Kong Group Company, Cinda Group, Beijing Underwear Co., Ltd. and other domestic and foreign enterprises have set up a number of scholarships and teaching funds in the school.
In recent years, adhering to the school philosophy of "seeking truth from facts and innovating, applying what you have learned", the school has established a clothing teaching system of "combining art education with engineering education and management education, combining national costume culture with modern design concepts, and combining theoretical teaching with practical teaching". The school has more than 7000 students and 700 faculty members in the south gate of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. There are five secondary colleges (Fashion Art and Engineering College, Art Design College, Materials Science and Engineering College, Business School and Industrial Design and Information Engineering College), two departments (Foreign Languages Department and Fine Arts Department), two teaching departments (Social Studies Department and Basic Courses Department) and 1 Teaching Center. There are 18 undergraduate majors, 1 first-class master's degree authorization points, 1 two disciplines master's degree authorization points,1second bachelor's degree authorization points and 4 dual-degree authorization points. There are 3 key construction disciplines in Beijing (clothing design and engineering, design art and materials science) and 3 municipal scientific research institutions (Beijing Key Laboratory of Research, Development and Evaluation of Clothing Materials, Beijing Research Base of Clothing Culture and Clothing Industry, and Beijing Clothing Technology Transfer Center). National costume museum, one of the "Top Ten" museums in China.
The school insists on undergraduate education, actively develops graduate students, international students and continuing education, and forms a multi-level school-running pattern with undergraduate education as the main part. In accordance with the policy of "promoting excellence, supporting the heavy, transforming the old and supporting the new", the school has formed a number of dominant disciplines and characteristic majors with great influence, and three majors, namely fashion design and engineering, polymer materials and engineering and art design, have been identified as Beijing brand building majors. Six majors, such as English, advertising, electronic information engineering, photography, painting and animation, have been added to meet the needs of the economic and social development of the capital. The curriculum reform has achieved landmark results. The school undertook the "New Century Higher Education Teaching Reform Project" of the Ministry of Education, the English Teaching Reform Project of the Ministry of Education and the Beijing Municipal Teaching Reform Project, and won the second prize of Beijing Excellent Teaching Achievement. In the past three years, teachers have published 120 textbooks and various reference books, and 14 textbooks, such as "Making Board for Clothing Industry", have been included in the national planning textbooks for general higher education in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. A number of characteristic teaching materials, such as Synthetic Fiber Production Technology and Clothing Pattern Design Principle and Technology, have been printed many times, and have been widely selected by similar majors in other universities in China.