Gengdan Institute of Beijing University of Technology

Gengdan Institute of Beijing University of Technology was founded in 2005 as a private, not-for-profit university operating within the quality assurance framework of Beijing University of Technology.

The campus stands in Shunyi District, Beijing, close to the city’s main airport and to international schools and companies. An International Center houses visiting students and professors.

Programmes span engineering, computing, business and management, economics, languages, art and design, humanities, social studies and early childhood education, through six schools: Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, International Business, Gengdan Academy of Design, Humanities, Information Engineering, and Digital Technology. The Academy of Design awards Bachelor of Arts degrees in visual communication, environmental design, product design and digital media arts, and runs an English-taught international class with a dual degree from Technological University of Dublin.

The institute is unusual among Chinese private universities in teaching through English and in adopting the European Credit Transfer System with peer review, external examiner review and student feedback. It recruits staff with teaching experience outside China and hosts western visiting professors. Gengdan is one of only five private universities in the Beijing region classified as an independent university.