China University of Petroleum

China University of Petroleum-Beijing (CUP), founded in 1953, is a national key university directly affiliated to China’s Ministry of Education. Its main campus lies at the southern foothill of Jundu Mountain in Beijing, and the Karamay campus is located in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. With a distinctive characteristic in petroleum, CUP mainly focuses on engineering disciplines while having a coordinated development in multiple disciplines. In 1997, CUP became a member of China’s first Project 211 universities and was nominated as one of the universities to construct the National Innovative Platform for Advantageous Disciplines in 2006. In 2017, CUP was selected to participate in the "Double First-Class" Initiative, starting a new journey to build itself into a world-class university with Chinese characteristics.

Disciplines

CUP is in a leading position in the petroleum and petrochemical disciplines in China. According to the ESI statistics by May 2020, CUP ranked within the top 1% in ESI in the world for 5 disciplines: Chemistry, Engineering, Material Science, Geosciences and Computer Science, with the Engineering discipline getting into the top 1‰ in ESI globally. Based on the petroleum industrial structure, CUP has established a discipline structure featuring: preponderant disciplines of Oil & Gas Engineering, Geological Resource and Geological Engineering, supporting disciplines of Chemistry, Material Science and Engineering, and newly emerginterdisciplinaryryof Unconventional Oil & Gas, New Energy, and Offshore Oil & Gas Engineering.

Students

CUP is known as the “Cradle of Petroleum Talents” for cultivating nearly 200,000 excellent professional talents since its founding. Over 16,000 students are studying at CUP, including 8,074 full-time undergraduates, 5,945 master's students, 1,543 PhD students and 702 international students. Graduates from CUP enjoy great favour among society and employers, contributing to a high employment rate for years.

Faculty

Guided by the principle of “Talents are the Primary Resources”, CUP insists on implementing the development strategy of “TalentsPowering the University” and has built a highly competent faculty . Currently, there are 1,499 staff members, including 268 professors and 389 associate professors, 341 academic PhD supervisors and 133 PhD supervisors of engineering. Among them are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). Promoted 91ed91 excellent researchers and professors, 9 innovation teams and 3 teaching teams that have been conferred honorary titles or funded at the national level and 6 teaching teams at the provincial level. It won 2 second prizes in the 2018 National Teaching Achievement Award (Higher Education) from the Ministry of Education. CUP makes inclusive talent introduction channels and tailors diverse talent development plans to impel the growth of young teachers.

Research

CUP values scientific research adhering to the principle of “undertaking major projects, establishing large platforms, organising strong teams, making important achievements and contributions in research”. It has 2 state key laboratories, 9 national research innovation sub-platforms, 23 research innovation platforms at provincial and ministerial level and 18 key lab branches of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). It dominated the domestic leading position in several research areas with an outstanding advantage in the disciplines of petroleum and petrochemistry. It has achieved rapid development in the fields of unconventional oil and gas, new energy and other emerging issues. Since the implementation of China’s 13th Five-Year Plan period(2016-2020), CUP has undertaken 1467 national research projects, winning 13 National Science and Technology Awards, ds with 5 for which CUP is the major participant. It has been awarded 283 prizes of Science and Technology awards at provincial ministerial level and for the non-governmental sector, ctor with 173 for which CUP is the major participant. It ranked in 2014n2014 and 2015, and 7th in 2017 among all the universities in China for the number of national prizes it has won for general projects.

Philosophy

CUP insists on a development philosophy that combines government, industry, education, and research. The Ministry of Education and China’s 5 top petroleum enterprises signed the co-construction agreement on developing CUP in October 2013. To date, CUP has established comprehensive cooperation agreements with 144 entities, including domestic governments, enterprises, and public institutions. It has explored a new talent training model taking advantage of the resources from enterprises and the university: 76 petroleum and petrochemical enterprises have launched scholarships in CU, P and 13 have built auditoriums with distinctive features of the enterprises. Also, it jointly enrols post-doctors with 40 enterprise postdoctoral research stations. Moreover, it has established postgraduate workstations and joint training bases with 202 petroleum and petrochemical enterprises, set up student internship bases with 103 enterprises, and student social practice bases with 69 petroleum and petrochemical enterprises. CUP actively pursues the innovation of talent training mechanism to combine resources from government, industry and university: It has jointly created Karamay Institute of Engineers with Karamay City and established Beijing Institute of Engineers with the research institutes ofChina’s 3 major oil companiesin Beijing, focusing on the implementation of Undergraduate Excellence Programand the training of professional degree graduates, taking new steps in the field of higher engineering education.

Internationalization

CUP attaches great importance to international exchanges and cooperation. Through the strategy of internationalisation, it has been promoting international exchanges and cooperation and increasing its global influence in higher education. It has maintained a large network of academic and industrial relationships with over 170 universities and enterprises abroad. And it has set up 13 international joint institutes with world-famous universities and enterprises; moreover , it has established a Confucius Institute in cooperation with San Francisco University in Quito, Ecuador. In 2018, CUP initiated the Worldwide Energy University Network (WEUN), which has 31 member universities from 17countriese,s such as China, the USA, the UK, Canada, Germany, France, etc. Responding to the Belt and Road Initiative actively, it has established cooperative links with over 60 universities and institutions from countries along the Belt and Road. It was selected to join the Belt and Road Scholars program of Beijing for international students and the Belt and Road National Talent Training Base program of Beijing in 2017. It was approvjoin the China Scholarship Council-Silk Road Scholarship Program in the same year, and the Chinese Government Scholarship-China-Africa Friendship Program and China-Africa Friendship General Scholar Program in 2019.

Adhering to the tradition of petroleum industry culture, a campus atmosphere with distinctive petroleum characteristics has been formed. Encouraged by the spirit of “being diligent, practical, dedicated, and pioneering” and inspired by the motto of “accumulating profound knowledge and solving practical problems”, the students lucubrate in the way of “diligence, rigour, truth-seeking and innovation” and the teachers dedicatethemselves o the cause of education, upholding the belief of “teaching knowledge and fostering virtue”.

Standing at a new historical starting point, CUP will insistently strive to build itself into a “world-class” research university in the petroleum and petrochemical sciences disciplines.