Beijing Sport University

Beijing University of Physical Education was founded in 1953, formerly known as the Central Institute of Physical Education, renamed Beijing Institute of Physical Education in 1956, and renamed Beijing University of Physical Education in 1993, is a national key institution, the national “211 project” key construction university, the first batch of “double first-class “It has a glorious history, profound cultural heritage and solid foundation, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad, and is subordinate to the State General Administration of Sports. The school is located in Information Road, Haidian District, covering an area of 755,000 square meters, with a building area of about 410,000 square meters and a total of nearly 100 indoor and outdoor training venues.

There are four departments, namely, Sports and Health, Humanities and Social Sciences, Olympic Sports, and Sports Engineering, and seven colleges, including College of Education (College of Physical Education) and College of Psychology, under the Department of Sports and Health; eight colleges, including College of Marxism and College of Management, under the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences; nine colleges, including China Football Academy (China Football Coaches Academy) and China Basketball Academy, under the Department of Olympic Sports. Under the Department of Olympic Sports, there are 9 colleges (schools), such as China Football Sports College (China Football Coaching College) and China Basketball Sports College; under the Department of Sports Engineering, there is the College of Sports Engineering. The Party School of the State General Administration of Sport of the CPC, the Cadre Training Center of the State General Administration of Sport, and the Coaching Academy of the State General Administration of Sport are located in the school.

With undergraduate education as the foundation and postgraduate education as the focus, the university is one of the first units to confer doctoral degrees in sports colleges and universities in China. There are 41 undergraduate majors such as physical education and sports training, among which 14 are national first-class undergraduate majors and 8 are provincial first-class undergraduate majors. The academic layout involves nine disciplines: education, law, economics, literature, science, engineering, medicine, management, and art. The first-level discipline of physical education and all the second-level disciplines under its jurisdiction are national key disciplines, and the university has one Beijing key second-level discipline, one Beijing key discipline of interdisciplinary disciplines and one discipline of high precision construction in Beijing universities; the overall level of physical education has been ranked first in the first three rounds of national discipline evaluation, and ranked “A+” in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, the university was ranked “A+”. The university has seven first-level master’s degree granting sites in kinesiology, Marxist theory, education, psychology, clinical medicine, public administration and journalism; six master’s degree granting sites in physical education, journalism and communication, international Chinese education, business administration, electronic information and applied psychology, as well as the first postdoctoral research station in physical education in China.

The university has 8 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, including the Key Laboratory of Sports and Physical Fitness of the Ministry of Education and the Key Laboratory of Physical Training and Physical Rehabilitation of the State General Administration of Sports, 1 national base of sports science, 1 engineering research center of the Ministry of Education, 1 engineering research center of Beijing higher education, 1 base of Beijing philosophical and social science, 2 scientific research bases of the State General Administration of Sports, 1 training base of the Sports Science Society, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, and 1 national research center, 1 National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, 2 Beijing Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers for Colleges and Universities. There are four China Think Tank Index (CTTI) source think tanks, including the China Institute of Sports Strategy, and one high-end think tank of the State General Administration of Sports. The library has a collection of more than 1.35 million books.

The university has more than 13,000 students at all levels, including more than 9,800 undergraduates and 3,500 postgraduates. The primary employment rate of graduates in the past five years has exceeded the average employment rate of colleges and universities in Beijing.

The university has always firmly established the central position of talent cultivation, adhered to the world vision, international standard, Chinese characteristics, high point positioning, adhered to the “three combination” mode of education, training, scientific research and schooling characteristics, adhered to the high-end, through, internationalization and synergy “four The school also adheres to the “four-pronged” approach to training talents, strengthens the in-depth integration of sports with education, science and technology and culture, and cultivates and delivers high-quality new sports talents for the construction of a strong sports country, a strong education country and a healthy China. Since its establishment, the university has trained nearly 100,000 outstanding talents in the fields of school sports, competitive sports and sports industry for the country, and has produced a large number of outstanding sports experts and scholars, teachers, coaches, athletes and management cadres who are well-known both at home and abroad, making outstanding contributions to the cause of Chinese sports, higher education and the Olympic movement, as well as economic and social development, and receiving the full recognition of the Party and the State, all walks of life and the international It has been awarded the honorary title of “Advanced Group of Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games” by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and the “Sports and Social Responsibility Award” by the International Olympic Committee. Three principals of the school, Zhong Shitong, Ma Qiwei and Jin Jichun, were awarded the “Silver Medal of the Olympic Movement”, “Award for Study and Research in Sports” and “Award for Sports and Education” by the International Olympic Committee. “The university has always been oriented towards the major strategic needs of the country.

The university has always insisted on facing the major strategic needs of the country and the frontier of discipline development, hosting more than 200 national scientific research projects (topics), including 3 national science and technology support projects, 3 national key research and development program “science and technology winter Olympics” special project, 3 active health and aging science and technology response key special project; provincial and ministerial level scientific research More than 270 awards, including 7 National Science and Technology Progress Awards. The Journal of Beijing Sport University was founded in 1966, and is now a core Chinese journal of Peking University, a CSSCI source journal of Nanjing University, a “China Science and Technology Core Journal (Humanities and Social Sciences)” of the Ministry of Science and Technology, a core journal of Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a RCCSE authoritative journal of Wuhan University. authoritative journals. Journal of Science in Sport and Exercise (SSEJ), founded in 2019, is an English academic journal in the field of sports science, which is supervised by the State General Administration of Sport and hosted by Beijing Sport University.

Since its establishment, the university has established inter-university relations with 159 foreign institutions of higher education in 52 countries and regions around the world, and has trained more than 15,000 international students for 106 countries, among which Dr. Alec Matytsin was elected President of the International Federation of University Sports in 2015. The university has awarded doctoral degrees to Zlatko Matesa, former Prime Minister of Croatia and President of the Croatian Olympic Committee; honorary doctoral degrees to Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee and seven other internationally renowned personalities; honorary doctoral degrees to Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, Gian-Franco Kasper, President of the International Ski Federation, and to Günther Klaus, President of the International Olympic Committee. -The honorary professorships were conferred on eight people, including IOC President Thomas Bach, FIS President Gian Franco Kasper, and World Curling Federation President Kate Caithness, and on IOC Senior Advisor Gilbert Marius Felli. Felli, a senior advisor to the IOC, was appointed as a visiting professor and an honorary head of the Department of Olympic Sports. The university is approved by the Ministry of Education as an institution for “Chinese Government Scholarship for International Students”, an institution funded by the National Program for the Construction of Highly Qualified Universities and an institution funded by the European Commission’s “Erasmus+” teacher-student exchange program. The University has also been awarded projects by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology for the Innovation and Introduction of Intellectual Property in Sports Science and Athletic Training and the Innovation and Introduction of Intellectual Property in Sports Science and Health. The university has established a comprehensive international cooperation and training mechanism from undergraduate to graduate students, and the level of internationalization of talent cultivation has been continuously improved by relying on the internationalization platform and coordinating high-quality international education resources.