Beijing University of Technology is a multi-disciplinary municipal key university focusing on engineering, science, economics, management, literature, law, art and teaching. It is a national "2 1 1 project" construction university, a world-class discipline construction university, the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, a scholarship receiving institution of the China Municipal Government for overseas students in China, and a member of the Beijing-Hong Kong University Alliance.
It was selected into the discipline innovation and intelligence introduction plan of colleges and universities, excellent engineer education and training plan, new engineering research and practice project, national high-level university postgraduate construction project, national college students' innovation experiment plan, national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan and national college students' cultural quality education base.