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Profiles of CUGB
发布时间:2022-03-23 阅读: 933

China University of Geosciences, Beijing (CUGB) is situated on Xueyuan Road, Haidian District of Beijing, China—an area which houses many illustrious academic institutions. It is a national key university of the People's Republic of China, administered directly by the Ministry of Education, which established the University in partnership with the Ministry of Natural Resources. In 2017, CUGB was selected into the Double First Class Disciplines University plan.

CUGB now has 16 schools, 41 undergraduate programs, 16 doctoral degree conferring spots of first-level disciplines, 33 master's degree conferring spots of first-level disciplines, and 14 master's degree conferring spots in professional fields. There are 16,898 full-time students and 1,461 faculty members.

CUGB is a research-oriented university with geology, natural resources, and environmental studies as its principal fields, covering science, engineering, liberal arts, management, economics, law, and other disciplines. Two disciplines—geology, geological resources and geological engineering—were selected as national "Double First Class" disciplines, and two disciplines received A+ in the fourth round of discipline evaluation carried out by the Ministry of Education. The six disciplines of geosciences, engineering science, environment/ecology, materials science, chemistry, and computer science are in the top 1% of the ESI, with geosciences being in the top 1‰.

CUGB is active in international exchange and cooperation, having signed cooperation agreements with a number of top universities and high-level research institutions such as the University of California, Los Angeles; the Colorado School of Mines, USA; the University of Waterloo, Canada; the University of Edinburgh and University of Birmingham, UK; the University of Hanover and the Helmholtz Potsdam Center, Germany; and the University of Sydney and Macquarie University, Australia. Exchanges and cooperative relationships have also been established with over two hundred universities and scientific research institutions in more than sixty countries and regions. The university has been approved to establish 4 Project 111 Programs (Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities) and has been carrying out multiple Foreign Expert Recruitment Scheme. One of CUGB's foreign experts has received the Chinese Government's Friendship Award. In accordance with the “20 + 20” Cooperation Plan for Chinese and African Institutions of Higher Education, CUGB has established a Confucius Institute at the University of Namibia.