It is a comprehensive university in Beijing approved by the Ministry of Education 1985. Its predecessor was 1978, 36 university branches founded by Tsinghua and Peking University. The school has 14 campuses, which are distributed in six urban areas of Beijing, forming a school-running layout with the North Fourth Ring Campus as the center and the combination of centralization and decentralization. The school is located in the North Fourth Ring Campus on the east side of the National Olympic Sports Center, with convenient transportation. The school has 14 colleges.