Beijing Geely University, formerly known as Beijing Geely University, invested and founded by Geely Group, is an excellent undergraduate institution of private higher education in China, and is committed to building a unique quality education curriculum system and a private school with an "employment-oriented education model".
Beijing Geely University (formerly known as Beijing Geely University) is an ordinary undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, founded by Geely Group in 2000. The school is located in Changping Park, Zhongguancun, Beijing, in the northeast of the foothills of Beijing's Xishan Mountain, with pleasant scenery. The school covers an area of 1,300 acres, with a construction area of 450,000 square meters; The school consists of 8 secondary colleges, including the School of Automotive Engineering, the School of Business, the School of Humanities and Design, the European and American International College, the School of Science and Technology, the School of Arts, the College of Applied Arts and Sciences, and the College of Huashi Media. There are more than 800 faculty members and more than 10,000 full-time students.
In accordance with the education policy of the party and the state, with the strong support and careful guidance of the Ministry of Education, the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission and other education authorities at all levels, and in accordance with the school motto of "entering the campus is to better go to the society" put forward by Chairman Li Shufu, the school actively explores new ways of talent training. The school has established the school-running orientation of "cultivating application-oriented and innovative senior talents with an international perspective and adapting to the needs of China's economic and social development", explored and implemented the "311 employment-oriented education model", continuously deepened the connotation construction with the cultivation of application-oriented talents as the core, and successively launched the "Ten Major Projects", namely cultural construction projects, teaching reform projects, quality assurance projects, faculty projects, professional quality projects, high-quality course projects, training equipment projects, scientific research breakthrough projects, internship and employment projects, Digital Campus Project.
The school has built an excellent teaching team of nearly 500 people, including full-time and part-time professors, associate professors, and senior engineers. A group of young and middle-aged teachers have stood out and won many awards and honors, such as the Beijing Famous Teacher Award, the Beijing Outstanding Teacher, the Beijing Educational Model, the Outstanding Young Backbone Teacher of Beijing Vocational College, the Beijing Private Education Gardener Award, and the Beijing Youth Talent Program for Colleges and Universities.
With the cultivation of students' five abilities of "expression and communication, employment, teamwork, critical thinking and lifelong learning" as the core, the school has initially built a teaching quality assurance system with three-level teaching supervision as the main body, a professional curriculum system with the needs of vocational positions as the standard, and a teaching form with the integration of theory and practice as the main body. The school has in-depth cooperation with Geely Group to carry out industry-education collaboration, and Geely Group has given strong support to the school in terms of cutting-edge technology, dual-teacher teacher training, experimental training equipment, internship and employment, etc. The school participates in the cultivation of Geely Group's "GM1000" technical senior compound talents.
The school has initially explored and constructed a unique quality education curriculum system and implemented the "tutor system" education model. The school has built a large-scale quality development training base for college students in domestic universities, and has set up unique quality education courses such as "Xiaohe Growth Training Camp" and "Psychological Development" to cultivate students' minds, thinking and actions, and improve students' comprehensive quality. "Geely Lecture Hall", "Campus Culture and Art Festival" and other campus cultural brand activities are rich and colorful.
Over the past few years, the school has achieved phased results in exploring and implementing the "employment-oriented education model", which has been widely recognized by students, parents, employers and society. Through school-enterprise cooperation, order training, industry-university combination and internship training, the school cooperates with hundreds of large and medium-sized well-known enterprises such as Volvo Cars and Vanke Group, creating a broad internship training platform and employment channels for the majority of students, and the employment rate of graduates reaches about 95% on average every year. By the end of 2013, there were 215 off-campus training bases that had established school-enterprise cooperation with the school; The school has 226 on-campus training rooms and 243 multimedia classrooms. The school library has a collection of 650,000 books; 2 national training bases that have received financial support from the central government; There are 8 private education development promotion projects in Beijing.
On May 4, 2014, the Ministry of Education approved the upgrade of Beijing Geely University to an undergraduate university and changed its name to Beijing Geely University.
Today, Beijing Geely University stands at a new starting point and opens a new chapter in education. The school will, as always, adhere to the socialist direction of running a school, adhere to the mission of "for students to better go to society", adhere to the cultivation of applied talents as the core, have the courage to explore and innovate, and constantly deepen the construction of disciplines; Adhere to the market-oriented, consolidate professional construction; Strengthen the construction of the teaching team, constantly condense the characteristics, continue to improve the level of running the school, make new contributions to the economic and social development of Beijing, and strive to achieve the beautiful vision of becoming the most respected private university!
