Founded in 1960, Beijing University of Technology is a multidisciplinary city-owned key university that focuses on engineering and combines engineering, science, economics, management, liberal arts, law, art, and education. In 1981, it became the first batch of master's degree-granting units approved by the Ministry of Education. It became a doctoral degree-granting unit in 1985. In 1996, it passed the national "211 Project" pre-examination, and officially entered the ranks of the country's top 100 universities in the 21st century. . In September 2017, the school officially entered the ranks of national first-class discipline construction universities, 8 disciplines ranked among the top 500 in the 2020 QS World University Rankings, and ranked 32nd in Mainland China in the QS 2020 World University Rankings, engineering, materials science, chemistry, and environment Six disciplines including science and ecology, computer science, biology, and biochemistry have entered the top 1% of ESI.