Beijing Sport University

Beijing Sport University was founded in 1953 as Central Institute of Physical Education. It was renamed Beijing Institute of Physical Education in 1956 and Beijing Sport University in 1993. It is a key national university, a key university under the "211 Project", and has been successfully included in the first batch of universities under the "Double First-Class" initiative. With a glorious history, rich cultural heritage and solid educational foundation, it enjoys a high reputation both at home and abroad and is affiliated with the General Administration of Sport of China. The school is located on Information Road, Haidian District. It covers an area of more than 1,100 mu and has a building area of about 450,000 square meters, with nearly 100 indoor and outdoor training venues.

The school now has three faculties: the School of Olympic Sports, the School of Physical Education and Health, and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The School of Olympic Sports has eight faculties: the School of Winter Sports, the School of Chinese Football, the School of Chinese Basketball, the School of Chinese Volleyball, the School of Chinese Swimming, the School of Chinese Athletics, the School of Extreme Sports, and the School of Equestrian Sports. The School of Physical Education and Health consists of seven colleges: the School of Education, the School of Management, the School of Psychology, the School of Wushu and Traditional Chinese Sports, the School of Sports Recreation and Tourism, the School of Sports Human Science, and the School of Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences consists of six colleges: the School of Marxism, the School of Journalism and Communication, the School of Art, the School of International Sports Organizations (School of Foreign Languages), the School of International Culture, and the School of Continuing Education. It has an affiliated competitive sports school and a secondary school. The Party School of the General Administration of Sport of China, the Cadre Training Center of the General Administration of Sport of China, and the Coach College of the General Administration of Sport of China are located in the school.

The school has 4 national key disciplines, 13 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, 2 provincial and ministerial excellent key disciplines, 5 provincial and ministerial key laboratories including the key Laboratory of Sports and Physical Health of the Ministry of Education and the key Laboratory of Physical Training and physical function Recovery of the General Administration of Sport of China, 1 engineering research center of Beijing Higher Education Institutions, and 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center. Two experimental teaching demonstration centers of Beijing universities. The library has a collection of over 1.2 million volumes.

The school is based on undergraduate education and focuses on postgraduate education. There are 16 undergraduate programs, namely Physical Education, Sports Training, Social Sports Guidance and Management, Sports Human Science, Wushu and Traditional Ethnic Sports, Public Administration, Sports Economics and Management, Journalism, Advertising, Applied Psychology, English, Performance, Dance Performance, Sports Rehabilitation, Leisure Sports, and Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. It has seven disciplines, namely education, management, medicine, art, law, literature and science. It has the authority to confer doctoral degrees in the first-level discipline of physical education and master degrees in the first-level disciplines of psychology, clinical medicine, and Marxist theory; It offers three professional degrees: Master of Physical Education, Master of Fine Arts, and Master of Journalism and Communication, as well as a postdoctoral research station in physical education. The overall level of the school's physical education discipline has ranked first in three national discipline evaluations organized by the Ministry of Education in the past 10 years.

The school has more than 10,000 students of all levels and types, including over 9,000 undergraduates and nearly 3,000 postgraduates. The one-time employment rate of graduates in the past five years has exceeded the average employment rate of colleges and universities in Beijing.

The school has always firmly established the central position of talent cultivation, adhered to the world vision, international standards, Chinese characteristics, high positioning, adhered to the "triple integration" model and characteristics of education, training and research, adhered to the "four modernizations" talent cultivation methods of high-end, integrated, international and collaborative, and strengthened the deep integration of sports with education, science and technology, culture, To cultivate and supply high-quality new sports talents for building a strong sports nation, a strong higher education nation and a healthy China. Since its establishment, the school has cultivated nearly 100,000 outstanding talents in the fields of school sports, competitive sports and sports industry for the country, and has cultivated a large number of outstanding sports experts and scholars, teachers, coaches, athletes and management cadres who are renowned at home and abroad. It has made outstanding contributions to China's sports cause, higher education cause, Olympic movement and economic and social development. The school has received full recognition from the Party and the state, all sectors of society and the international community, and has been awarded the title of "Advanced Collective of the Beijing Olympic Games and Paralympic Games" by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and The State Council, and the "Sports and Social Responsibility Award" by the International Olympic Committee. Three former presidents of the school, Zhong Shitong, Ma Qiwei and Jin Jichun, were respectively awarded the Silver Medal of the Olympic Movement, the Award for Learning and Research in Sports and the Award for Sports and Education by the International Olympic Committee.

The school has always been committed to the major strategic needs of the country and the frontiers of discipline development. It has presided over more than 150 provincial and ministerial-level projects, including national science and technology support projects and major projects of the National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation, and has won 28 provincial and ministerial-level science and technology awards, including the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the Excellent Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education. Journal of Beijing Sport University is a Chinese core journal of sports, a core journal of humanities and social sciences in China, a source journal of Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI), a journal funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China, an excellent science and technology journal of Chinese universities, and has been selected as one of the most internationally influential academic journals in China for five consecutive years since 2012.

As one of the key institutions open to visitors in Beijing since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Beijing Sport University is an important window to showcase the achievements of sports in New China to the world. Since its establishment, the university has established intercollegiate relations with 117 foreign institutions of higher learning in 44 countries and regions around the world, and has trained more than 10,000 international students from 106 countries. Among them, Dr. Alek Madishin was elected president of the International University Sports Federation in 2015. Dr. Zlatko Matessa, former Prime minister of Croatia and president of the Croatian Olympic Committee, was awarded honorary doctorates to eight international dignitaries, including International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge. Honorary professorship was awarded to Gian Franco Kasper, president of the International Ski Federation, Kate Caithness, president of the International Curling Federation, and Ivo Ferriani, president of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation. Relying on its international education platform, the school has integrated high-quality international educational resources and established a comprehensive international cooperation training mechanism from undergraduate to graduate students, with the internationalization level of talent cultivation constantly improving.