Peking University

Peking University (北京大学, PKU) is a public research university located in the Haidian District of Beijing, founded in 1898 as the Imperial University of Peking (京师大学堂) — China's first modern national university. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and is part of the Double First-Class initiative, the C9 League, and Project 985 and Project 211. It educates roughly 50,000 students and employs about 13,000 academic staff. Its research spans sciences, humanities, medicine and technology, and it hosts the School of Computer Science (established 2021) and numerous state key laboratories.