Renmin University of China

Renmin University of China (RUC, Chinese: 中国人民大学) is a public research university in Haidian, Beijing, China, founded by the Chinese Communist Party and directly affiliated with the Ministry of Education, which co-funds it with the Beijing Municipal People's Government.中国人民大学（Renmin University of China，简称人大或 RUC）是位于中国北京市海淀区的一所公立研究型大学，由中国共产党创办，直属于教育部，并由教育部与北京市人民政府共建。

It belongs to the Double First-Class Construction as a Class A university, having previously been a Project 985 and Project 211 institution, and in September 2026 enrolled 29,825 students — 12,235 undergraduates, 11,665 master's students and 5,925 doctoral students — taught by 2,037 full-time teachers, of whom 911 were professors.该校是「双一流」建设高校（A 类），原为「985 工程」与「211 工程」重点建设大学；截至 2026 年 9 月，在校学生 29,825 人——本科生 12,235 人、硕士生 11,665 人、博士生 5,925 人——由 2,037 名专任教师授课，其中教授 911 人。

Renmin is placed 521st in the QS World University Rankings 2027, 343rd in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 and in the 301-400 band of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 521 位，《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 最佳全球大学排名第 343 位，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名位列 301-400 区间。

History

• The university traces its origins to Shaanbei Public School, founded in July 1937 in Yan'an by the Chinese Communist Party to train cadres for the War of Resistance against Japan, with the founding entrusted to Lin Boqu, Wu Yuzhang, Dong Biwu, Xu Teli, Cheng Fangwu and Zhang Yunyi.该校的渊源可追溯至 1937 年 7 月中国共产党在延安创办的陕北公学，旨在为抗日战争培养干部；筹建工作委托给林伯渠、吴玉章、董必武、徐特立、成仿吾、张云逸六人。
• Mao Zedong personally set the school's motto — loyalty, unity, seriousness and liveliness — and approved its school song, whose lyrics were written by Cheng Fangwu and music composed by Lü Ji.毛泽东亲自为该校制定校训「忠诚、团结、紧张、活泼」，并审定了由成仿吾作词、吕骥作曲的校歌。
• In 1939 Shaanbei Public School joined Yan'an Lu Xun Art College, the Yan'an Workers' School and the Anwubao Wartime Youth Training Class to form North China United University, which moved behind Japanese lines and settled in Fuping and later Zhangjiakou.1939 年，陕北公学与延安鲁迅艺术学院、延安工人学校、安吴堡战时青年训练班合并成立华北联合大学，该校挺进敌后，先后落脚河北阜平与张家口。
• In August 1948 North China United University merged with the Northern University of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan region to form North China University, inaugurated on 24 August 1948 with Wu Yuzhang as president and more than 15,000 students.1948 年 8 月，华北联合大学与晋冀鲁豫边区的北方大学合并成立华北大学，8 月 24 日正式挂牌，吴玉章任校长，在校学生 15,000 余人。
• On 16 December 1949 the Government Administration Council of the Central People's Government approved the Decision on the Establishment of Renmin University of China, and on 19 February 1950 Wu Yuzhang was appointed its first president.1949 年 12 月 16 日，中央人民政府政务院通过《关于成立中国人民大学的决定》；1950 年 2 月 19 日，吴玉章被任命为中国人民大学首任校长。
• Renmin University opened on 3 October 1950 with eight undergraduate departments — economics, economic planning, finance and credit, trade, cooperation, factory management, law and diplomacy — known as the eight great departments.该校于 1950 年 10 月 3 日开学，首批设经济、经济计划、财政信用借贷、贸易、合作社、工厂管理、法律、外交八个本科系，习称「八大系」。
• In 1954 the Ministry of Education designated six institutions, led by Renmin University of China and including Peking University and Tsinghua University, as the first batch of national key universities.1954 年，教育部将中国人民大学、北京大学、清华大学等六所高校确定为首批全国重点大学，人大居首。
• Earlier institutions fed into the university: the School of Letters and Commerce of Beiping China University, founded in 1912 by Sun Yat-sen, merged into North China University in 1949, while Chaoyang University, whose law faculty was among the most famous in Republican China, merged into Renmin University in 1950.多所前身学校并入该校：1912 年由孙中山创办的北平中国大学文商学院于 1949 年并入华北大学；曾以法学著称民国、有「南东吴、北朝阳」之誉的朝阳大学则于 1950 年全部并入中国人民大学。
• Yanjing University's sociology and journalism departments joined around the 1952 faculty readjustment, helping Renmin University become a national leader in the social sciences.燕京大学的社会学、新闻学等系在 1952 年院系调整前后并入，使中国人民大学成为全国社会科学领域的领军者之一。
• The Department of Journalism, established in 1955 and joined by Peking University's journalism programme in 1958, combined the strengths of Renmin, Yanjing and Peking universities.新闻系设立于 1955 年，1958 年又并入以燕京大学新闻系为基础的北京大学新闻专业，自此汇聚人大、燕大、北大三校之力。
• In 1954 the trade department's foreign trade specialty became the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade, and in 1955 the diplomacy department broke away to form the separate China Foreign Affairs University, while the Russian department became the Beijing Russian Institute.1954 年贸易系对外贸易专业独立为北京对外贸易学院；1955 年外交系独立组建外交学院，俄文系独立成立北京俄语学院。
• The Cultural Revolution from 1966 paralysed teaching and research and brought persecution of many staff, and in October 1970 the Beijing Revolutionary Committee announced the university's closure, before it was finally dissolved in October 1973.1966 年起的「文化大革命」使教学科研全面瘫痪，大批干部教师遭受批斗；1970 年 10 月北京市革命委员会通知学校停办，1973 年 10 月该校被彻底解散。
• After lobbying by Guo Yingqiu and others, the university was revived in 1977 with Deng Xiaoping's support, reopened at Beijing Normal University and returned to its original site after 1978.在郭影秋等人奔走、邓小平支持之下，中国人民大学于 1977 年复校招生，初期在北京师范大学上课，1978 年正式复校后迁回原址。
• Its original campus lay east of the Forbidden City in Dongcheng district, on the site of the Qing dynasty's Heqin Prince mansion, before the university moved to Zhongguancun.该校最初的校址位于东城区紫禁城以东的清代和亲王府旧址，其后迁往中关村。
• The School of Chinese Classics, founded in 2005, teaches Chinese classical studies through a six-year integrated programme that awards a master's degree.国学院成立于 2005 年，以六年制本硕连读的方式教授国学，毕业授予硕士学位。
• In 2015 Renmin University established the China Academy of Financial Inclusion, and in October 2017 it set up the first research centre for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.2015 年该校成立中国普惠金融研究院；2017 年 10 月又设立全国首家「习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究院」。
• In March 2012 the university signed an agreement with Tongzhou district to build a campus at Lucheng, and in 2017 the Tongzhou Eastern Campus was approved as the future main campus, with 110 hectares of land and 1.05 million square metres of building space.2012 年 3 月，该校与通州区签署协议，在潞城建设校区；2017 年通州东校区获批成为未来的主校区，用地 110 公顷、建筑规模 105 万平方米。
• In 2022 Renmin University announced it would withdraw from internationally run world university rankings, becoming one of the first Chinese institutions to stop supplying data and fees to those rankings.2022 年，中国人民大学宣布退出国际主导的世界大学排名，成为最早停止向此类排名机构提供数据与经费的中国高校之一。
• In 2017 the university marked its 80th anniversary, an occasion attended by Vice Premier Liu Yandong who read a congratulatory letter from Xi Jinping, and alumni donated more than one billion renminbi during the celebrations.2017 年该校迎来 80 周年校庆，国务院副总理刘延东出席典礼并宣读习近平的贺信，校庆期间各界校友捐赠逾 10 亿元人民币。
• In May 2024 the university founded a Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study in Finance, in July 2024 a joint Shenzhen Institute for Development and Strategy with Shenzhen University, and it opened the Research Centre for Shiology on 25 May 2024.2024 年 5 月该校成立深圳金融高等研究院，7 月与深圳大学合作成立深圳发展与战略研究院，并于 2024 年 5 月 25 日设立「食学研究中心」（Shiology）。
• On 28 November 2025 Ma Huaide was appointed president of Renmin University of China, succeeding Lin Shangli, with Zhang Donggang serving as party secretary.2025 年 11 月 28 日，马怀德接替林尚立出任中国人民大学校长，张东刚任党委书记。

Academics

• Renmin University of China is built around a single-minded identity in the humanities and social sciences, with a discipline layout that covers leading Marxist disciplines, outstanding humanities, top social sciences, new-type sciences and engineering, and innovative interdisciplinary fields.中国人民大学以「独树一帜的人文社会科学」为办学定位，学科布局涵盖引领的马克思主义学科、卓越的人文学科、顶尖的社科学科、新质的理工学科与创新的交叉学科。
• It offers 91 bachelor's degree programmes, 37 first-level master's degree authorisations, 32 first-level doctoral authorisations, 45 professional master's and five professional doctoral authorisations, and 21 postdoctoral research stations.该校设有学士学位专业 91 个，一级学科硕士学位授权点 37 个、一级学科博士学位授权点 32 个，专业学位硕士授权点 45 个、博士授权点 5 个，并有博士后科研流动站 21 个。
• Its 14 Double First-Class construction disciplines are philosophy, theoretical economics, applied economics, law, political science, sociology, Marxist theory, journalism and communication, Chinese history, statistics, business administration, agricultural and forestry economic management, public administration, and library, information and archives management.其 14 个「双一流」建设学科为哲学、理论经济学、应用经济学、法学、政治学、社会学、马克思主义理论、新闻传播学、中国史、统计学、工商管理、农林经济管理、公共管理，以及图书情报与档案管理。
• In the Ministry of Education's fourth-round discipline evaluation of 2017 Renmin received 14 A-class disciplines, including nine A+ grades that put it fourth nationally in the number of A+ disciplines.在教育部 2017 年公布的第四轮学科评估中，该校获评 A 类学科共 14 个，其中 9 个为 A+，A+ 学科数量位列全国高校第四。
• The nine A+ disciplines are theoretical economics, applied economics, law, sociology, Marxist theory, journalism and communication, statistics, business administration and public administration, while philosophy and political science were rated A and Chinese language and literature, Chinese history and library science A-minus.九个 A+ 学科为理论经济学、应用经济学、法学、社会学、马克思主义理论、新闻传播学、统计学、工商管理、公共管理；哲学、政治学获评 A，中国语言文学、中国史、图书情报与档案管理获评 A-。
• Renmin holds eight national key first-level disciplines and eight national key second-level disciplines, ranking first among Chinese universities in the humanities and social sciences.该校拥有 8 个国家重点一级学科与 8 个国家重点二级学科，在人文社会科学领域居全国高校首位。
• As of September 2026 the university had 2,037 full-time teachers, including 911 professors and 751 associate professors, with 176 people in national major talent programmes and 535 receiving special government allowances.截至 2026 年 9 月，该校有专任教师 2,037 人，其中教授 911 人、副教授 751 人；176 人入选国家重大人才工程，535 人享受国务院政府特殊津贴。
• Professors Wei Xinghua and Gao Mingxuan were among the first recipients of the national honorary title of People's Educator.卫兴华教授与高铭暄教授首批荣获「人民教育家」国家荣誉称号。
• As of September 2026 the university enrolled 29,825 students — 12,235 undergraduates, 11,665 master's students and 5,925 doctoral students.截至 2026 年 9 月，该校在校学生 29,825 人——本科生 12,235 人、硕士生 11,665 人、博士生 5,925 人。
• Renmin University has trained more than 418,000 graduates since the Shaanbei Public School era, and the first doctorates in Chinese law, journalism and many humanities fields came from the university.自陕北公学时期至今，该校共培养 41.8 万余名毕业生；中国法学、新闻学等学科的第一位博士以及人文社会科学第一位外国留学生博士均出自人大。
• Its scholars helped draft or revise the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, the Civil Code and the Criminal Law, as well as successive fiscal and tax reforms.该校相关学科的专家学者参与了新中国宪法、民法典、刑法等重要法律的起草与修改，以及历次财税体制改革方案的制定。
• The university hosts the National Academy of Development and Strategy, which became one of the first national high-end think tanks and, in the 2019 assessment, the only university think tank placed in the top tier.该校设有国家发展与战略研究院，为首批试点建设的国家高端智库之一，并在 2019 年首次国家高端智库综合评估中成为唯一进入第一档次的高校智库。
• It also runs the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies and the Capital Development and Strategy Research Institute as new-type Chinese think tanks, and in 2024 opened the Research Centre for Shiology.该校还设有重阳金融研究院、首都发展与战略研究院等中国特色新型智库，并于 2024 年设立食学研究中心。
• The university library covers 26,000 square metres with 15 reading rooms and an economics hall offering more than 2,000 seats.该校图书馆面积 26,000 平方米，设 15 个阅览室与一个经济馆，提供 2,000 余个座位。
• Renmin maintains partnerships with some 211 universities and research institutions in 54 countries and regions, and as of September 2026 with institutions in 63 countries and regions across six continents.该校与 54 个国家和地区的 211 所大学及研究机构建立合作；截至 2026 年 9 月，其校级伙伴关系已覆盖六大洲的 63 个国家和地区。
• It is a member of the Worldwide Universities Network, the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education and the Beijing-Hong Kong Universities Alliance, and has co-built seven Confucius Institutes overseas.该校是世界大学联盟、亚太国际教育协会与京港大学联盟的成员，并在海外参与共建 7 所孔子学院。

Campus

• The main Zhongguancun campus lies at 59 Zhongguancun Street in Haidian district, Beijing, next to the Beijing Institute of Technology.中关村主校区位于北京市海淀区中关村大街 59 号，与北京理工大学相邻。
• The Zhongguancun campus is compact and densely built, its eastern, western and north-western quarters occupied by student dormitories and its central and southern areas by teaching buildings.中关村校区面积不大、建筑密集，东区、西区与西北区主要为学生宿舍楼群，中区与南区为教学区。
• Teaching buildings from the 1980s and earlier follow a grey, Soviet-inspired design, the best known being the Qiushi Building, while buildings from the late 1990s onward use the university's signature Renmin red.1980 年代及更早的教学楼多为苏式灰调建筑，最具代表性的是求是楼；1990 年代后期以来的建筑则采用「人大红」色调。
• Named buildings include the Qiushi Building, the Mingde complex of main, business, law, journalism and international studies buildings, the Rulun Lecture Hall and the Century Hall.具名建筑包括求是楼，明德主楼、明德商学楼、明德法学楼、明德新闻楼、明德国际楼组成的明德楼群，以及如论讲堂与世纪馆。
• The former main campus lies east of the Forbidden City in Dongcheng district, on the site of the Qing dynasty's Heqin Prince mansion, and is no longer used for teaching.原主校区位于东城区紫禁城以东的清代和亲王府旧址，现不再用于教学。
• The Suzhou campus stands at 158 Ren'ai Road in the Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu, and houses the Sino-French Institute and its 900 Chinese and international students.苏州校区位于江苏省苏州工业园区仁爱路 158 号，设中法学院及其 900 名中外学生。
• The Tongzhou Eastern Campus in Lucheng, beside Lucheng station on Beijing Subway Line 6, covers 110 hectares and 1.05 million square metres of building space and is planned to accommodate 21,800 students.通州东校区位于潞城、临近北京地铁 6 号线潞城站，总用地 110 公顷、建筑规模 105 万平方米，规划容纳学生 21,800 人。
• Every Friday evening people gather at the Qiushi Garden near the east gate for the campus English Corner, and the university hosts about 1,468 international students, many of them from South Korea.每逢周五傍晚，人们聚集在东门附近的求是园参加校园英语角；该校约有 1,468 名国际学生，其中不少来自韩国。

Reputation

• Renmin University of China is placed 521st in the QS World University Rankings 2027.中国人民大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 521 位。
• The university does not appear in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 ranks it 343rd in the world.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 最佳全球大学排名将其列为世界第 343 位。
• In the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 it appears in the 301-400 band.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，该校位列 301-400 区间。
• In the 2017 fourth-round discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education Renmin ranked first among Chinese universities in nine disciplines and received 14 A-class grades, the fourth-highest number of A+ disciplines in the country.在教育部 2017 年第四轮学科评估中，人大有 9 个学科居全国高校首位，获评 A 类学科 14 个，A+ 学科数量居全国第四。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014 placed Renmin 5th in China, 13th among emerging countries, 32nd in Asia and inside the world's top 250.2014 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列为中国第 5、新兴国家第 13、亚洲第 32，并进入世界前 250。
• The Financial Times has ranked the Renmin Business School among the world's top 50, with its global MBA 38th, its Executive MBA 43rd and its executive education 11th internationally, the best in Asia.《金融时报》曾将人大商学院评为全球前 50，其全球 MBA 第 38、高级管理人员 MBA 第 43，高管教育位列国际第 11、居亚洲之首。
• OpenAlex credits Renmin University of China with 48,551 works and 1,537,209 citations.OpenAlex 收录中国人民大学 48,551 篇成果与 1,537,209 次引用。
• In 2022 the university became one of the first Chinese institutions to withdraw from internationally run rankings, and in 2024 a Chinese higher-education humanities and social sciences development report placed it first nationally in that field.2022 年该校成为最早退出国际主导排名的中国高校之一；2024 年《中国高校人文社科发展报告》将其列为全国第 1 名。

Student life

• The university motto is Seek truth from facts (实事求是).该校校训为「实事求是」。
• Its institutional spirit is stated as establishing learning for the people and governing the country through scholarship (立学为民、治学报国), and its talent goal as a national example and a social pillar (国民表率、社会栋梁).其大学精神表述为「立学为民、治学报国」，人才培养目标则为「国民表率、社会栋梁」。
• Its organising idea of people, people-centred and humanities (人民、人本、人文) is reflected in the emblem, whose three parallel seal-script characters for person also evoke the saying that among three walking together there is always a teacher.其办学理念「人民、人本、人文」体现在校徽之上——三个并列的篆书「人」字也暗含「三人行，必有我师焉」之意。
• The school song is the Song of Shaanbei Public School, with lyrics by Cheng Fangwu and music by Lü Ji, confirmed by the Ministry of Education in June 2019 after being designated the representative school song in 2017.该校校歌为《陕北公学校歌》，由成仿吾作词、吕骥作曲；它于 2017 年被确定为代校歌，2019 年 6 月获教育部批复正式确定为校歌。
• The anniversary is celebrated on 3 October, the date the university opened in 1950, and the emblem with its three seal-script characters replaced the earlier Yan'an star emblem in 2003.该校以 1950 年开始办学的 10 月 3 日为校庆日；含三个篆书「人」字的新校徽于 2003 年启用，取代早前以延安之星为主体的旧校徽。
• In January 2010 the university adopted the magnolia as its school flower and the ginkgo as its school tree.2010 年 1 月，该校确定玉兰花为校花、银杏树为校树。
• The Guoxue School founded in 2005 teaches Chinese classical studies through a six-year integrated programme awarding a master's degree, and the university also runs affiliated primary and secondary schools in Beijing.2005 年成立的国学院以六年制本硕连读项目教授国学并授予硕士学位；该校还办有附属中学与附属小学。
• The university is a popular destination for visiting dignitaries, and in January 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke with students, scholars, athletes and entrepreneurs, while in 2019 nine Yan'an-rooted universities formed the Yanhe higher-education alliance.该校是外国政要到访的常选之地：2008 年 1 月英国首相戈登·布朗曾与师生、学者、运动员和企业家交流；2019 年 9 所诞生于延安的高校又发起成立了「延河高校人才培养联盟」。

Notable people

• Wu Yuzhang served as the first president of Renmin University of China from 1950 and had earlier been president of North China University.吴玉章自 1950 年起担任中国人民大学首任校长，此前曾任华北大学校长。
• Cheng Fangwu was the first president of Shaanbei Public School and later president of the university, and he wrote the lyrics of its school song.成仿吾是陕北公学首任校长，后任中国人民大学校长，并为该校校歌作词。
• Wei Xinghua, an economist, and Gao Mingxuan, a criminal-law scholar, were among the first recipients of the national honorary title of People's Educator.经济学家卫兴华与刑法学家高铭暄首批荣获「人民教育家」国家荣誉称号。
• Liu He, a member of the Politburo and one of China's vice premiers, and Liu Yandong, the highest-ranking woman in Chinese politics, both graduated from Renmin University.中共中央政治局委员、国务院副总理刘鹤与曾任中国政界最高级别女性的刘延东都毕业于中国人民大学。
• Chen Yulu, a former deputy governor of the People's Bank of China and later president of Nankai University, and Ma Kai, a former chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, are alumni.曾任中国人民银行副行长、后任南开大学校长的陈雨露，以及曾任国家发展和改革委员会主任的马凯，均为该校校友。
• Zhang Lei, founder of Hillhouse Capital Group, and Liu Qiangdong, founder of JD.com, are among the university's entrepreneurial alumni.高瓴资本创始人张磊与京东创始人刘强东都是该校的创业界校友。
• Duan Yongping, founder of the Subor and BBK brands, and Hu Shuli, founder of the business magazine Caijing, are also graduates of the university.小霸王与步步高品牌的创始人段永平，以及财经杂志《财经》创办人胡舒立，也是该校校友。
• The writer Wang Xiaobo and the novelist Zhang Jie, who graduated in 1960, are among its literary alumni.作家王小波与 1960 年毕业的小说家张洁都是该校文学界校友。
• Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia, Olympic gold medallists in diving, are alumnae of the university.奥运跳水金牌得主郭晶晶与吴敏霞均为该校校友。
• Wang Liming, a scholar of civil law and former dean of the law school, and Zeng Xianyi, a scholar of legal history, are among its distinguished legal scholars.民法学者、法学院前院长王利明与法律史学者曾宪义都是该校著名法学家。