BIT now has 18 professional schools as well as Xu Teli School, Advanced Research Institute for Multidisciplinary Science, Institute of Advanced Structure Technology, Institute of Convergence Medical and Engineering, etc. Engineering, material science, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science and social sciences ranked in the top 1% of ESI international disciplines, among which engineering ranked in the top 1‰. In recent years, combined with traditional advantages and long-term development needs, BIT has focused on the construction of “5+3” subject groups—“Efficient Damage and Protection” subject group, “New Materials Science and Technology” subject group, “Complex System Perception and Control” subject group, “Delivery Equipment and Manufacturing” subject group, “Information Science and Technology” subject group and “Characteristic Science” subject group, “Convergence Medical and Engineering” subject group, “Civil-military Integration and Innovation and Development” subject group, forming the overall construction layout of “leading advantageous engineering, promoting the integration of characteristic science, assisting linkage of fine liberal arts and interacting frontier cross-innovation”. BIT now has more than 3400 staff, including 23 academicians, 47 “Chang Jiang Scholars Program” professors,40winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, , 4 state level teachers, 6 state level teaching groups, 4 innovative teams of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and 10 innovative teams of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program. BIT has 2 national collaborative innovation centers, 9 state level cooperative innovation centers, state level laboratories and 6 state level research centers.

BIT aims to develop students as leaders with ambition, wisdom, innovation and sense of duty. Of all the 300 thousands students graduated from BIT in the past 78 years, there are leaders of party and country such as Li Peng, Zeng Qinghong, Ye Xuanping, academicians such as Wang Xiaomo and Peng shilu, leaders and constructors in every fields. BIT has received 20 national teaching awards, 14 national excellent courses, 10 national excellent video courses, 9 excellent resource-sharing courses, 15 excellent online courses and 2 national virtual simulation experiment programs up to now. BIT comprises 28,000 full-time students. Students of BIT have won 15” top 10 works” in 9 consecutive annual conference on innovation and entrepreneurship of college students, ranked 1st of the Chinese universities. Students won the champion of the international top events in the field of UAV in 2017, the golden metal of the China College Students’ Entrepreneurship Competition and top two of the “Internet+” Competition in 2018, the final champion of the ICRA 2019 RoboMaster AI Challenge ,two gold awards in the International Genetic Engineering Machine Competition (iGEM) in Boston, USA in 2019. In the past five years, the employment rate of undergraduates has remained above 97%, and the employment rate of postgraduates has reached more than 98%. Currently, BIT has established inter-university collaboration with more than 270 renowned universities in 74 countries and regions on six continents and student exchange program with more than 70 partner universities. BIT is building an international university, and has created a global network for exchange and cooperation.