Beijing university of chemical technology, formerly known as Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology, was founded in 1958. It is a high-level university established in New China to "train advanced chemical technicians needed for the development of frontier science".
As a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, a key construction unit of the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985" dominant discipline innovation platform, and a national "first-class discipline" construction unit, beijing university of chemical technology shoulders the mission of cultivating high-level innovative talents, basic and forward-looking scientific research and original high-tech development.
The school has 17 colleges, with more than 5400 full-time undergraduates/kloc-0, more than 8500 graduate students (including doctoral students 1300), more than 2200 continuing education students such as correspondence and night university, and more than 360 international students with academic qualifications.
Dominant disciplines:
First-level discipline 1 (covering five second-level key disciplines), two national key disciplines in two disciplines, three first-level disciplines in Beijing (covering 1 4 second-level key disciplines), two interdisciplinary disciplines in Beijing and three key disciplines in two disciplines.
Chemistry and materials science rank at 1‰ before ESI, while engineering, biology and biochemistry and environmental ecology rank at 1% before ESI. The discipline group of "Green Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials" was selected into the ranks of national first-class discipline construction.