Beijing Institute of Technology

Beijing Institute of Technology was founded in May 1939 as the Yan'an Institute of Natural Sciences and is among China's leading science and engineering universities. In 2010 it co-founded the Excellence League with nine other Chinese universities. It operates six campuses: four in Beijing and two further sites in Hebei and Guangdong. Which campus a programme runs at should be established early, since the Guangdong site in particular sits in a different province with different living costs and a different graduate employment market. The university is strongest in mechanical engineering, optoelectronics, automation, materials and information technology, with a defence and armaments research heritage. That heritage is worth noting. Whether specific research areas or laboratories are restricted to Chinese nationals should be established, since it is a field where such restrictions commonly apply.