Shijia College, named after Mrs. Lu Shijia (a renowned Chinese fluid dynamics expert), is one of the seven colleges under Beihang School. Adhering to the university's overall goal of talent cultivation, the Shijia College always aims "general education, mentorship system and community concept" as the core of educational cooperation and "Seeking Truth and Perfecting Virtue, Achieving Far-Reaching Goals Through Perseverance" as the core spiritual qualities of talent cultivation. By adopting the college-based educational management mode coincided with the talent growth patterns and embodying Beihang's characteristics, the college prioritizes the cultivation of outstanding leaders in the aerospace field, with strong sense of social responsibility and excellent humanistic quality, solid mathematical foundation and extensive professional knowledge, independent learning competency and innovative awareness, strong engineering practice ability and good communication and cooperation skills, as well as the courage to meet future challenges and participate in international competitions.

After the freshman year, students from the Engineering Experimental Class (Aerospace) of the college will select their majors. They will pursue further studies in relevant majors in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, School of Transportation Science and Engineering, School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, School of Astronautics, School of Aviation, and other aerospace-related colleges.