Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Beihang University (hereinafter referred to as Beihang) is a national key university directly under the Ministry of industry and information technology of the people's Republic of China. It ranks among the world's first-class university construction universities, 211 project and 985 project key construction universities. It has been selected into the Everest plan, 2011 plan, 111 plan, excellent engineer education and training plan, Chinese government scholarship receiving universities for international students in China, and national construction high-level university public universities They are the International Astronautical Federation, China Europe Elite University Alliance, China Spain University Alliance, China Russia Engineering University Alliance and Chinese universities Member of Planetary Science Alliance and China Artificial Intelligence Education Association.Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics was founded in 1952 as Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. It was formed by the merger of the Department of Aeronautics of Tsinghua University, Beiyang University, Xiamen University and Sichuan University. It was renamed Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in April 1988.As of October 2018, Xueyuan Road and Shahe campus of the University have a total area of more than 3000 mu; there are 30 secondary colleges under the University; there are 20 post doctoral research mobile stations, 23 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degree, 40 first-class disciplines authorized by master's degree, 60 undergraduate majors; there are 8 first-class national key disciplines; there are 3928 teaching staff and more than 30000 full-time students.