Overview

Beijing Jiaotong University has attached great importance to enhancing international cooperation in education and has always been taking strengthening international cooperation as an important way to promote the development of BJTU.

So far, BJTU has established cooperative relations with more than 150 renowned universities, institutions and high-tech companies from 32 countries and regions all over the world. The opportunities for teachers and students to study abroad have been largely increased by maintaining partnership with more than 50 international universities in the forms of double degree programs, student exchange programs and short visit programs.

BJTU is one of the first universities authorized by the Chinese government to enroll international students. Now there are over 1,400 international students from more than 80 countries and regions studying on campus. Ever since, BJTU has received over 3,200 overseas students and visiting scholars from more than 100 countries and regions in Asia, Europe and America etc.

BJTU has also established GROUP T International Education Academy-Leuven University in Belgium, formerly GROUP T, Leuven Institute of Technology, Confucius Institute in Belgium and Texas Southern University Confucius Institute in the United States.

BJTU has carried out 3 Chinese-Foreign Collaboration in Running School Programs approved by the Ministry of Education. They are BJTU-University of Waterloo Nanomaterials Undergraduate Program, BJTU-University of Wollongong Mechatronics Engineering Undergraduate Program and BJTU-EPITECH Software Engineering Master Program, respectively.

During 2013, BJTU received 1,844 person-time overseas delegation and individuals (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) for short visit. The number of BJTU students who study abroad has reached 986, among which 567 students are through agreed agreements and programs, 419 students study abroad after graduation. The number of overseas students exceeds 1,300.

Beijing Jiaotong University has been inviting foreign experts and teachers to instruct and give lectures at the university for more than fifty years.

The number of foreign teachers at Beijing Jiaotong University, including both long-term and short-term, is increasing year by year. In recent years, the number of long-term foreign teachers invited to our university, amounts to sixty annually.

Beijing Jiaotong University actively applies national key projects of intelligence introduction, appointing foreign experts and scholars from diverse channels to teach and research in the university. From 2011 till now, nineteen national key projects of intelligence introduction applications were approved, including two “1000 Talent Plan: recruitment program of foreign experts”, two “Recruitment Program of High-end Foreign Experts”, four “111 Project”, etc.