According to the query of the college students' essential network, there are 8 colleges and universities in Beijing 985. The list is: Peking University, Tsinghua University, China Renmin University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing Normal University, China Agricultural University and Minzu University of China. There are 26 universities in Beijing (2 1 1). The list is: Peking University, Tsinghua University, China Renmin University, Beihang University, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Agricultural University, etc. Beijing Institute of International Relations is not on the list of universities in Beijing 2 1 1 and 985, which means that Beijing Institute of International Relations is neither 985 nor 2 1 1.

The Institute of International Relations, referred to as "Guo Guan", is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, directly under China Renmin University and the Ministry of Education. It is one of the six "small-scale pilot universities" of the Ministry of Finance and a national key university with foreign languages and international issues as its teaching and research direction.