Yuanpei College of Peking University specializes in chemistry, applied chemistry, material chemistry, chemical biology, physics, atmospheric and marine science, environmental science, environmental engineering, environmental management, psychology, applied psychology, China literature, China linguistics, classical philology and applied linguistics.

"Yuanpei College" in Peking University is an undergraduate education reform plan named after Mr. Cai Yuanpei, the old president of Peking University, in order to explore a new mode of cultivating undergraduate talents in China comprehensive high-level research universities in the 2 1 century during the process of establishing a world-class university in Peking University.

In September, 20001year, Peking University established Yuanpei plan management Committee, on the one hand, it promoted undergraduate teaching reform in the whole school; On the other hand, we will hold an experimental class of Yuanpei plan to practice the new talent training mode. In 2007, Yuanpei College, the first non-professional undergraduate college in Peking University, was formally established, marking a new stage of undergraduate education reform in Peking University.

Since the reform and opening up, Peking University has been continuously reforming and exploring the talent training mode. At the end of 1980s, on the basis of investigation and study, the school put forward the 16-character teaching reform policy of "strengthening the foundation, neglecting the specialty, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and training them in different classes".