Former Institutions
- Yenching University, re-organized and mainly merged into Peking University in 1952, some of the departments merged into Tsinghua University and Renmin University of China
- Central Academy of Arts and Design (中央工艺美术学院), merged into Tsinghua University as Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University (清华大学美术学院) in 1999
- Peking Medical University, merged into Peking University in 2000
- École centrale de Pékin, created in Beijing in 2005
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