# Peking University

- Location: Beijing, China
- Type: Public
- Founded: 1898
- Official website: http://www.pku.edu.cn/
- CollegeStat profile: https://collegestat.britexstudy-15d.workers.dev/university/peking-university-79e1cf8b

## Summary

Peking University was founded in 1898 as the Imperial University of Peking during the late-Qing reform movement, as China's first modern national university, and was renamed Peking University in 1912. Under president Cai Yuanpei from 1917 it became a centre of the New Culture and May Fourth movements. In 1952 it moved to the former Yenching University campus, Yan Yuan, in north-west Beijing, and in 2000 it merged with Beijing Medical University.

## Key facts

- rank: #13 (QS 2027) — https://insights.qs.com/hubfs/Rankings%20Excel%20Reports/2027%20QS%20World%20University%20Rankings%201.1%20%28For%20qs.com%29.xlsx

## Sources

- [rank](https://insights.qs.com/hubfs/Rankings%20Excel%20Reports/2027%20QS%20World%20University%20Rankings%201.1%20%28For%20qs.com%29.xlsx)
- [Official website](http://www.pku.edu.cn/)
- [Reference](https://ror.org/02v51f717)
- [Official About page: founded 1898 as Imperial University of Peking; 46,113 full-time students (facts last updated Dec 2020). The international figure was not used because the page gives two conflicting numbers](https://english.pku.edu.cn/about.html)
- [Wikipedia cross-check: history, type, motto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_University)

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