Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture

北京建筑大学
Type	Public
Established	1936
Academic staff	691
Students	10,333 (2009)
Postgraduates	504 (2009)
Location	Beijing , China
Campus	Urban 13.3 ha (133,000 m2)
Website	http://www.bucea.edu.cn/

Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (simplified Chinese: 北京建筑大学; traditional Chinese: 北京建築大學; pinyin: Běijīng Jiànzhù Dàxué) is a university in Beijing. Established in 1936, it is maintained by the Beijing municipal government.

History

The university was founded during the Qing Dynasty in 1907 when it was firstly named Jingshi (Peking) Elementary Industrial School. The school changed its name in 1933 to Beiping Municipal Senior Vocational School before the Civil Engineering Division was established in 1936. Approved by the State Council in 1977, the school became the public university and as the first university in Beijing who resumed the bachelor's degree courses, it was renamed as Beijing College of Construction and Engineering. In 1982, the college was identified as the first batch of the national bachelor degree-granting college followed by the national master degree-granting universities in 1986 and the university was renamed as the Beijing University of Architecture and Engineering. In 2011, the university joined Excellent Engineers Training Education Program hosted by Beijing Ministry of Education and in 2012, the university was approved as a doctoral talent training project to serve the special needs of the country due to Theory and Technology of Architectural Heritage Protection. Then the university was approved by the Ministry of Education to be renamed as Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture in April 2013.

In 2014, it was approved to set up a post-doctoral research mobile station of "Architecture". In October 2015, the Government and the Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Construction signed a co-construction agreement to approve that the school officially entered the ranks of "Provincial Co-construction Universities". In May 2016, the school's "Future Urban Design Innovation Center" was approved as "Beijing Higher School Innovation Center". In 2017, it was approved to recommend outstanding undergraduate to study for postgraduate qualification without examination. In May 2018, the university became the national Doctor of Philosophy degree-granting universities and the PhD in architecture and civil engineering were approved to be the "First-level Discipline in Doctor of Philosophy degree".

Campus

The school has two campuses in Xicheng and Daxing districts in Beijing. The Xicheng campus covers an area of 123,000 square meters, the Daxing campus covers an area of 501,000 square meters; the total school building area is 488,000 square meters. At present, the school is accelerating the construction of the two campuses in accordance with the "two high" layout goals of "building a high-quality undergraduate talent training base in Daxing Campus and building a high-level graduate training, scientific and technological collaborative innovation and achievement transformation base" in Xicheng Campus. The school library has a collection of 1.469 million paper books, 1.85 million online e-books, 77 large electronic document databases, and the China Architecture Library jointly established by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. It is a university with a complete range of architectural books in the country.

Academics

The university currently has 10 colleges, School of International Education, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education, and Continuing Education. There are 10,845 students in various colleges and schools, including 7713 full-time undergraduates, 2178 postgraduates, 56 PhD candidates, 766 continuing education students, and 132 international students.

There are 2 authorized first-level Doctor of Philosophy degrees, 1 Doctor of Philosophy project for cultivating talents serving the special needs of the country, 2 post-doctoral research mobile stations, 14 authorized first-level master's degree programs and 1 authorized cross-disciplinary master's degree program. There are 10 authorized professional master's degree. It has 3 high-precision subjects in Beijing colleges and universities (Architecture and Urban Planning, Civil and Transportation Engineering, and Geomatics and Urban Spatial Information).

The Ministry of Education's fourth round of discipline evaluation for the two disciplines of architecture and civil engineering is B. In September 2019, the schools of Engineering entered the top 1% of ESI's global ranking. There are currently 40 undergraduate courses, including 6 National first-class professional courses, 3 national-level specialty courses, 2 key first-class courses with Beijing universities, 3 Beijing-level first-class courses, and 7 Beijing-specific courses.

The school has a collection of famous teachers and a strong teaching team. The school currently has 1,060 faculty members, including 664 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, there are 168 teachers with a master's degree, 458 teachers with PhD degree, 425 teachers with senior professional and technical positions, 140 professors, and 46 doctoral supervisors. There are 1 national outstanding young science fund winner, 1 national-level teaching teacher, 2 national "Ten Thousand-Year Project" leading talents, 4 national-level candidates for the 10 million talent project, 2 national excellent teachers, 3 Beijing scholars , 10 experts enjoying special government allowances, 10 members of the Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 2 outstanding talents from the Beijing High-Tech Initiative, 2 selected from the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and 1 young Beijing scholar, Three persons were selected by the Ministry of Education in the New Century Excellent Talents Program, one person is a young and middle-aged leader in science and technology from the Ministry of Science and Technology, one is one of the 100 leading talents in Beijing in science and technology, five are in the "high-creation project" in Beijing "Creative Project" 2 teaching faculty members, 8 Beijing-level candidates with 10 million engineering talents, 9 candidates for the Great Wall Scholars Training Program in Beijing, 8 teaching faculty in Beijing colleges and universities, 8 young teaching faculty in Beijing, and 8 science and technology stars in Beijing . It has 1 innovation team from the Ministry of Education, 32 top-notch youth teams from the Organization Department of Beijing Municipal Committee, academic innovation team from Beijing Municipal Education Commission, excellent teaching team and management innovation team.

Schools and Institutes

• College of Architecture and Urban Planning
• College of Civil and Transportation Engineering
• College of Environment and Energy Engineering
• College of Electronics and Information Engineering
• College of Economics and Management Engineering
• College of Geomatics and Urban Spatial Information
• College of Mechanical Electronic and Vehicle Engineering
• College of Humanity and Law
• College of Mathematical Sciences
• College of Marxism
• School of International Education
• School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education
• School of Continuing Education
• Department of PE