The China University of Geosciences, Beijing (CUGB) is a national key university 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. At the same time, it was one of the first 33 universities in China to pilot graduate schools, and was among the first batch to enter the ranks of Project 211 and Project 985 Innovative Platforms for Key Disciplines.

CUGB now has 16 schools, 44 undergraduate programs, 16 doctoral degree conferring spots of first-level disciplines, 34 master’s degree conferring spots of first-level disciplines. The university has always regarded strengthening moral education and cultivating people as its most fundamental task. The university maintains talent training as its core mission and undergraduate education its fundamental task, forming an education system that merges “liberal education, professional education, innovation and entrepreneurship education”.