China University of Geosciences, Beijing

China University of Geosciences in Beijing traces its roots to Beijing College of Geology, founded in 1952 as a result of the merger of the geological departments from Peking University, Tsinghua University, Tianjin University, and Tangshan Railway College. Early success led to its being named one of the nation’s 64 “key colleges and universities.” In 1975, the school was obliged to move to a new campus in Wuhan. In 1978, the graduate faculties relocated in Beijing under the support of Mr. Deng Xiaoping, the leader of the People’s Republic of China. In 1987, the Ministry of Education approved a plan for China University of Geosciences to develop two tertiary institutions in Beijing and Wuhan respectively, both of which have independent legal personalities. China University of Geosciences in Beijing is among the first group of China’s higher level universities designated for the state key construction of the “211” project and is one of the first 33 universities in China approved to set up graduate schools as well. In February 2000, China University of Geosciences in Beijing (heretofore “CUGB”), previously managed by the Ministry of Land and Resources, was put under the management of the Ministry of Education. In March 2005, CUGB and China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) became independent educational entities. Finally, in September 2006, CUGB was established as a joint responsibility of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Land and Resources.

Since its foundation in 1952, China University of Geosciences in Beijing has experienced an unusual course of development: creation, expansion, re-location, reconstruction, and revitalization. CUGB has produced a large cohort of graduates equipped with the technical knowledge and professional attitudes needed to build up the nation and contribute to the flourishing of the earth sciences.

At present, the university boasts nine members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on its staff. Out of 40,000+ graduates, 24 alumni have been elected to either the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and more than 200 alumni have been singled out as “model workers” by provinces or ministries.

As a multi-disciplinary national key university, CUGB is one of China’s main centers for educating geological researchers and professionals of all sorts. It has evolved an educational program that balances sciences, technology, arts, management, economics and law—one which emphasizes a connection between education and geology, natural resources, environment and geological engineering. CUGB has 16 colleges with a total of 47 undergraduate programs and 118 graduate programs for a master’s degree, 37 doctoral programs, 16 fields of Master of Engineering, and 6 post-doctoral research stations. At present there are more than 12,000 students enrolled with a teaching and research staff comprised of 1200. CUGB is headed by Mr. Wang Hongbing, the chairman of the university council and Prof. Wu Ganguo, president of the university.

During its 50 years of practice, China University of Geosciences in Beijing has developed its glorious motto of “work hard, keep modest, and pursue truth and pragmatism”. Guided by the principle of scientific development, CUGB attempts to accomplish the following: it embraces a philosophy of “special and best;” it earnestly carries out the Party's policy on education; it perseveres in the socialist orientation in education provision; and CUGB cultivates innovative graduates with “good moral, sound background, wide knowledge, high profession.” The university is going forward to become a first-class international university in the field of geosciences.

 

China University of Geosciences (Beijing) sticks to the route of combining science, arts, management together in school administration, and keep the integrative, crossing, advanced much-needed constructing policy, mainly featuring in geology, resources, environment and geology engineering, to seek for a coordinated and balanced manner in multi-disciplinary areas’ development. Under this guide, the university has developed its comprehensive strength in teaching, scientific research, and cultivation in personnel, striving to improve the disciplinary areas constructing. At present, there are five national key laboratories, which are Stones, Minerals, Palaeobiology and Stratum, Mineral Surveying and Prospecting, Mineral Exploring Engineer, and four provisional or ministerial key disciplines, including Structural Geology, Geohydrology and Geoengineering, Geochemistry, Coal-field and Oil, Gas Geology locating in the campus. Moreover, two national professional laboratories, which are the Development and Application of Mineral Stone Materials, Globe Scientific Drilling Laboratory, as well as one ministerial open laboratory of Lithosphere and Dynamics Laboratory, found their sites here. Since 2002, the Ministry of Science and Technology has established the National Fossil and Stone Sample Data Base in the campus. According to the university’s blueprint of the 211 Project constructing, it is decided to extend the current disciplinary areas, centralize the planning the disciplinary constructing, turn out the high-level talents and fully develop the key laboratories. Besides, it is also indicated to give the priority to the development of five disciplinary areas: Geodynamics and Global Events, Geometrical Science and New Stone Material, Mineral Resources Prospecting and Evaluating and Geoinformation, Geology Surveying Engineering and Geoengineering, Geoenvironment Protecting and Defending and Controlling Geocalamity. The 211 Project has greatly promoted the construction in disciplinary areas and the optimization of the disciplinary structure in this university. Especially under the guide of the Distinct Characteristic Plus Cream policy of school management, the construction in disciplinary areas is catching up with the time, and keeps pace to the higher education reform. The persisting improvement in the quality of education and scientific research has also established a sound base for the reform and development in teaching process.

 

School and department	discipline	degree
School of the Geosciences and Resources	Geology (including Base Classes)	Undergraduate
	Geochemistry	Undergraduate
	Surveying Engineering	Undergraduate
	Land Resource Management	Undergraduate
	Marine Science	Undergraduate
	Geoinformation Science and Technology	Undergraduate
School of Engineering and Technology	Prospecting Technology & Engineering	Undergraduate
	Design and Manufacturing and Automation of Machinery	Undergraduate
	Civil Engineering	Undergraduate
	Safety Engineering	Undergraduate
School of Geophysics and Geoinformation Systems	Technology& Instrument of Observation & Control	Undergraduate
	Geophysics	Undergraduate
	Electronic Information Technology	Undergraduate
School of Materials Sciences and Technology	Materials Science and Technology	Undergraduate
	Materials Chemistry	Undergraduate
School of Gem Studies	Stones & Materials Technology	Undergraduate
	Art Design	Undergraduate
School of Information Technology	Science and Technology of Computers	Undergraduate
	Electronic Engineering & Automation	Undergraduate
	Mathematics and Applied Mathematics	Undergraduate
	Geoinformation System	Undergraduate
School of Water Resources and Environmental Science	Environmental Engineering	Undergraduate
	Hydrology and Water Resource Exploitation	Undergraduate
School of Energy Resources	Petroleum Engineering	Undergraduate
	Resource Exploitation	Undergraduate
School of Humanities and Economic Management	Industrial and Commercial Management	Undergraduate
	Marketing	Undergraduate
	Accounting	Undergraduate
	Tourism Management	Undergraduate
	Administrative Management	Undergraduate
	Information Management and Information Systems	Undergraduate
	Commercial Law	Undergraduate
	Law	Undergraduate
	Electronic Commercial	Junior College Graduate
Foreign Language Department	English	Undergraduate

 

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