China Youshi University (Beijing), China Shiyou University for short, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It is a national "double-class" construction university, the first batch of "2 1 1 project" construction universities, and a member university of Beijing Hi-Tech University Alliance and World Energy University Alliance. It has been selected into the 985 Innovation Platform of Engineering Superiority Discipline, the "11plan", the education and training plan of outstanding engineers, the public graduate program of national high-level universities, the new engineering research and practice project, and the scholarship receiving institution of China government for international students in China.
The school's predecessor was Beijing Petroleum Institute, and 1953 was founded on the basis of Tsinghua University Petroleum Department, which gathered some teachers from Tianjin University, Peking University and other universities. 1960, the school was identified as a national key university; 1969, the school moved to Shengli Oilfield in Dongying, Shandong Province, and was renamed East China Petroleum Institute; 1988 was renamed Petroleum University, which consists of Petroleum University (Beijing) and Petroleum University (East China). In February 2000, the school was placed under the management of the Ministry of Education by China Petroleum and Natural Gas Group Corporation, and it was made clear that the University of Petroleum (Beijing) and the University of Petroleum (East China) were relatively independent; In June 2005, the school was renamed. ?
In May 2023, official website showed that the school had two campuses (Beijing and Karamay). Beijing Campus is located at the southern foot of Du Jun Mountain in Changping District, Beijing, with a total campus area of more than 700 mu. Karamay Campus is located in Karamay City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with a campus area of more than 7,000 mu. Administer 17 secondary colleges (departments), 2 state key laboratories, and offer 47 majors? [55]; Faculty 1806; There are more than 5,000 full-time undergraduates/kloc-0 (including more than 6,000 in the school), more than 7 graduate students100, more than 2,000 doctoral students, and more than 600 international students with academic qualifications.