China Youshi University (Beijing) Karamay Campus is an institution, the first undergraduate school in Karamay, and the only national key university directly under the Ministry of Education to the west of Lanzhou.

Karamay Campus is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), the first batch of "2 1 1 project" universities in China, the first batch of world-class discipline construction universities in China, and Beijing Hi-Tech Alliance University. It is a national key university with distinctive petroleum characteristics and is known as the "cradle of petroleum talents".