beihang university is among china's top-10 engineering universities. it is subsidized by the prestigious project-211 funding and project-985 funding. together with tsinghua university, peking university, and beijing institute of technology, it is widely considered to be one of the top four engineering research universities in beijing, with an emphasis on aeronautical and astronautical engineering, but also covering diverse fields in the natural sciences, high technology, economics, management, the liberal arts, law, philosophy, foreign languages, and education.