According to China Education Online, Beijing Public Security University of Chinese People's Public Security University is neither a 2 1 1 university nor a 985 university. The school is a comprehensive university in the public security industry, and it is the first institution of higher learning in the national public security system to carry out general higher education, the first postgraduate training and the only doctoral education.

The People's Public Security University of China, referred to as the Public Security University, is located in Beijing. It is an ordinary institution of higher learning directly under the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China and a senior police officer college of the Ministry of Public Security. It is a national "double-class" construction university.