Beijing Institute of Technology, the first science and engineering university founded by the China Communist Party, is a national key university under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China. The first batch entered the class A ranks of world-class universities, and the first batch entered the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project". It has successively been selected into the Academic Alliance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Undergraduate Program of High-level University Construction, the National Undergraduate Innovation Experiment Program, the National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program, the New Engineering Research and Practice Program, the scholarship receiving institution of the China Municipal Government for overseas students, and the transformation and technology transfer base of scientific and technological achievements in colleges and universities.
Beijing Institute of Technology, formerly known as the Academy of Natural Sciences, was founded in Yan 'an 1940. After the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region Industrial School and North China University Engineering College were successfully established, they were set up in Beijing on 1949, taking over the headquarters of Sino-French University and the three departments of mathematical physics and chemistry. 1952 was named Beijing Institute of Technology, and 1988 was renamed Beijing Institute of Technology.