Chronicle of Events in The Glorious and Fruitful 50 Years

March 3, 1954  The Central Radio Administration held a training class for radio-broadcasting technicians
September 2, 1958  Beijing Broadcasting Specialized School was established
September 7, 1959  Beijing Broadcasting Institute was established, starting its 4-year regular undergraduate education
1979  Beijing Broadcasting Institute started to enroll graduate students

 
1981  Beijing Broadcasting Institute became one of the first group of universities that can confer master’s degrees
1998  Beijing Broadcasting Institute became one of the universities that can grant doctor’s degrees
March, 2000 Beijing Broadcasting Institute became one of the universities directly under the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, and also under the supervision of The General Administration of Radio, Film and Television
September, 2001 Beijing Broadcasting Institute was checked and accepted by experts of  “Project 211” in the Ninth 5-year Plan and became one of the about 100 key universities in China

 
February, 2002 Beijing campus of China Mining University wholly became part of Beijing Broadcasting Institute
August, 2003 Beijing Broadcasting Institute set up 3 post-doctoral research programs
March, 2004 Nanguang College was set up in Nanjing and started to recruit students in June
August 2004 With the approval of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing Broadcasting Institute was renamed as “ Communication University of China”.
 
Prospect: Tomorrow will be even better

    From now on, we will strive in 20 years to turn Communication University of China into a highly-advanced information and communication university with distinctive features, into the center of media talent-training and talent information exchanging, into the center of science research and technology developing, into the center of program making and exchanging, and into the center of information and literature collecting and distribution.