BUAA is well-known for its rigorous pursuit and academic excellence. In more than 50 years since its foundation, over 80,000 students have graduated. At the moment, there are over 31,000 students registered at BUAA, including 11,000 graduate students and 15,000 full-time undergraduate students. Now the university is establishing a structure for education in a research-oriented university with the general objective of ¡°Cultivating high-quality specialized personnel, who are adaptable to the needs of the future world, who have the potential for innovation, and who have team spirit, and who are efficient at learning and working." For years, the employment rate of the graduates in BUAA has been ranked at the top of universities and colleges all over the country.

In BUAA, undergraduate education is focused on training creative specialized graduates who have solid basic knowledge, who can study and work independently in the science field, and who have the necessary skills gained from specialized training. Centering on this aim, BUAA has a flexible, dynamic and solid education plan based on the credit system with the distinct feature of diverse personnel cultivating plans so as to gradually establish a research-oriented, wide-ranging specialized cultivating mode on the basis of the perfection of the former general education. BUAA is now trying to establish a first-rate system of undergraduate education as a research-oriented University.

As for graduates education, BUAA puts more emphasis on the specialized personnel who have gained a good grasp of theoretical knowledge and a deep understanding of specialized knowledge through systematic scientific training, who have the ability to innovate, who are self-starters, and who are willing to devote themselves to scientific endeavor and to cooperate with others. BUAA is among the first batch of academic institutes that are officially permitted to establish graduate schools and it is also one of the universities which have the authority to approve supervisors for doctorial candidates. On the training of graduate students, BUAA keeps reforming deeply, developing positively, guiding diversely, enhancing construction, stressing innovation, improving the quality of teaching, emphasizing creativity, constructing a proper environment for the cultivation of specialized personnel and creating highly qualified graduates.