Capital University of Economics and Business

Capital University of Economics and Business traces its founding to 1956 and was established as a Beijing municipal key university in March 1995 through the merger of the former Beijing Institute of Economics and Beijing Institute of Finance and Trade. Over nearly 60 years, it has developed into a modern, multidisciplinary university of finance and economics covering six categories: economics, management, law, literature, science and engineering. Economics and management are its principal distinctive strengths, with mutual support and coordinated development among disciplines.

Its main campus in Huaxiang, Fengtai District, primarily provides full-time undergraduate and postgraduate education. Hongmiao Campus in Chaoyang District primarily provides international student and adult education.

It has 4 first-level doctoral disciplines—applied economics, management science and engineering, business administration and statistics—and 4 postdoctoral research stations in applied economics, statistics, business administration, and management science and engineering. It has 10 first-level master’s degree authorizations, 17 professional master’s degree authorizations and 43 undergraduate programs.

It has 17,948 registered students, including 9,908 undergraduates, 221 junior-college students, 2,797 master’s students, 351 doctoral students, 1,016 international students and 3,655 adult education students.

It has 1,471 faculty and staff, including 813 full-time teachers of various kinds. Doctorate holders account for 67% of teachers. There are 172 professionals with full senior titles, including professors, and 301 with associate senior titles, including associate professors. It has 68 doctoral supervisors and 418 master’s supervisors. Among active teachers are 1 National Outstanding Teacher, 1 nationally distinguished teacher, 1 national Thousand Talents Plan scholar, 1 national Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project selectee, 1 member of the National Special Support Program for High-Level Talent, also called the Ten Thousand Talents Plan, 3 Ministry of Education New Century Talent Support Program selectees, 6 State Council special government allowance recipients, 18 Beijing distinguished teachers and 7 Beijing Haiju Program members.

Its Institute for Megacity Studies is a Beijing Collaborative Innovation Center. Municipal research bodies include the Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Research Base for CBD Development and Beijing Economic and Social Development Policy Research Base. It also has 30 university-level research institutions, including the Institute of Population Economics and Institute of Capital Economics. Its journal Research on Economics and Management is a CSSCI source journal, national Chinese core journal, Chinese humanities and social science core journal and RCCSE core journal. Population and Economics, one of China’s earliest demographic journals, is a CSSCI source journal, national Chinese core journal, Chinese humanities and social science core journal and one of 200 important journals funded by the National Social Science Fund.

The university has academic exchanges and partnerships with 117 universities, research institutions, social organizations and other bodies in 28 countries and regions. It began admitting international students in 1986 and has developed a multilevel, multidisciplinary system for international talent education. Categories include doctoral, master’s and undergraduate students, senior and general visiting students, language students and short-term participants. It began fully English-taught master’s classes in 2007 and fully English-taught doctoral classes in 2011. International students now come from over 70 countries; their number reached 1,016 in 2016.