The Faculty of Science of BJUT was established on April 28, 2020, to actively adapt to the significant strategy needs of the developments of the country, the capital Beijing and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region actively, to optimize the discipline distribution, to innovate the discipline organization and to stimulate the vitality of discipline. Its predecessor was College of Applied Sciences.
The Faculty of Science consists of three schools: The School of Mathematics; The School of Physics and Optoelectronics; and The School of Statistics and Data Science. Currently, there are more than 170 faculty members, including 30 professors and 60 associate professors. Among the faculty members, there are 5 specialists who enjoy the State Council Special Allowance, 6 Beijing Municipal Famous Teachers, 1 Beijing Model Worker, 1 National Outstanding Young Scholar, 2 New Century Outstanding Talents of Ministry of Education of China, 2 Beijing Great Wall Scholars, 8 Talents of Beijing New-star Plan of Science and Technology, 4 First prize winner of Beijing Young Teacher Lecture Competition, 10 Top-notch Talents of Beijing Municipal Universities. Now the faculty has over 1,000 full-time students (of whom half are graduate students).
The faculty has 5 undergraduate programs: Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Information and Computing Science, Applied Physics, Statistics and Optoelectronic Information Science & Engineering, and different programs have integrated cultivation system of undergraduate, Master and doctoral students. The Information and Computing Science is one of Beijing's Characteristic Specialties, and the Applied Physics is one of Beijing’s Brand Specialties. The faculty has four first-level doctoral degree disciplines and post-doctoral mobile stations in Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Optical Engineering. Mathematics and Physics have entered the top 400 of QS World University Rankings by Subject and Statistics and Optical Engineering has achieved B+ (10%-20%) in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation.
In recent years, the faculty has won many National/Beijing Municipal/Industrial Excellent Ph.D. Dissertations Awards (containing Nominations), multiple provincial and ministerial scientific research awards, and has established quality courses/compiled quality teaching materialsat Beijing municipal level and State level.High-level scientific research, characteristic personnel training and rich international exchange activities of this college have strongly bolstered the training of interdisciplinary and innovative talents.
The faculty will inherit the BJUT’s university motto, which is “Persistent Striving the Path, Pursuit of Innovation the Way”, and position to the strategy arrangement of the “Superior Sciences”, and make unremitting endeavor for the development of BJUT about the “Double First-rate” strategy.
