The last century was a world-class university, which trained a large number of elite masters. Si Tuleideng, former American ambassador to China, is the principal of the school. Carry out academic exchanges with Harvard University and Cambridge University all the year round, and establish Harvard Society. It has trained writers such as Zhou Zuoren, Bing Xin, Zhou, diplomat Huang Hua, political scientist Hsiao Kung chuan, educator, philosopher Feng Youlan and historian Qian Mu.

Yenching university, yenching university is one of the universities jointly founded by four Christian churches in the United States and Britain in the early 20th century, and it is also one of the largest universities with the best quality and the most beautiful environment in modern China. Founded in 19 19, with Si Tuleideng as the president, he has cooperated with Harvard University to establish Harvard Yanjing Society, which enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.

In the adjustment of national universities 1952, yenching university was cancelled. After the defeat of the Kuomintang government in Taiwan Province Province, yenching university merged into Chung Chi College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In Chinese mainland, after its assets were taken over by the Central People's Government, most of arts and sciences were merged into Peking University, engineering was merged into Tsinghua, and law school and sociology department were merged into Beijing Institute of Political Science and Law (now China University of Political Science and Law). The school building was taken over by Peking University, and its building is still a monument in yenching university.