Beihang University is a comprehensive national key university directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China, a national key construction university of "985 Project" and "21Project", and one of the first batch of 16 national key universities. The candidates for the Everest Plan, 20 1 1 Plan,1Plan, Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan and Excellent Legal Talents Education and Training Plan are the International Astronautical Federation, China-Europe Elite University Alliance and T Beihang University, which have been selected from By the end of 20 13, the school has two campuses, Xueyuan Road and Shahe, covering an area of 3,000 mu, with a total construction area of10.5 million square meters; Full-time students are 278 1 1 person, including undergraduate students 14428, graduate students 8700 and doctoral students 40 15. The rate of undergraduate and graduate students going abroad is 22.8% and 25.8% respectively, and the number of international students in school is 1474.
The school ranks in the forefront of domestic universities in the field of cutting-edge technology research, with more than 40 groundbreaking scientific research achievements; The school has successfully developed and launched various types of aircraft, filling many gaps in China, such as China's first light passenger plane "Beijing No.1", Asia's first sounding rocket "Beijing No.2", China's first unmanned aircraft "Beijing No.5", "Bee" series aircraft, and * * * axial-flow twin-rotor unmanned helicopter. From 200 1 to 20 13, Beihang * * * won 49 national science and technology awards; Especially from 2005 to 20 13, the school won the first prize of seven national science and technology awards for seven consecutive years.
In 20 13, the research funding of the school reached 2.323 billion yuan, 6 achievements were awarded by the state, 3 professors and their teams won the second prize of the national natural science, 5 973 projects were approved, 2 key projects of the natural science foundation 12 and 237 general projects were approved. Major projects went smoothly and were rewarded. Significant progress has been made in scientific and technological innovation represented by "3D printing", and substantial progress has been made in the experimental device of "Yuegong No.1". The discovery of Quark Zc(3900) participated by the School of Physical Science and Nuclear Energy Engineering was rated as the annual research hotspot of American Physical Journal in 20 13, and two articles from the School of Biological and Medical Engineering were listed as ESI hot papers in the last two years and highly cited papers in the field of materials in the last ten years.