吉利学院是经教育部批准独立设置的全日制民办普通本科高校，由世界500强企业吉利控股集团于1999年在北京创建，前身为北京吉利大学。2014年4月30日，经教育部批准升格为本科高校并更名为北京吉利学院。

2014年2月26日，习近平总书记视察首都北京，提出了疏解非首都核心功能战略。吉利学院认真贯彻落实习近平总书记2·26讲话精神，努力践行疏解非首都核心功能战略,主动向有关部门提请搬迁至成都市办学。在教育部、北京市、四川省、成都市和北京大学的大力支持下，2020年3月30日，经教育部批准学校整体搬迁至成都市办学，更名为吉利学院。

学校认真贯彻落实党和国家的教育方针，坚持社会主义办学方向，坚持立德树人根本任务，以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导，全面加强党的政治建设和思想建设，努力践行社会主义核心价值观，培养德智体美劳全面发展的社会主义建设者和接班人。学校按照李书福董事长提出的“走进校园是为了更好地走向社会”的校训，充分发挥吉利控股集团企业办校优势，着力深化产教融合、校企合作协同育人，为区域经济社会发展培养德智体美劳全面发展，基础理论扎实、实践能力和创新意识强、综合素质高的具有国际视野的应用型人才。

学校地处成渝地区双城经济圈的桥头堡-成都东部新区，地理位置优越，毗邻成简快速路、第二绕城高速、厦蓉高速和渝蓉高速；距离天府国际机场30分钟车程；规划建设中的成都地铁13号线在学校南门设站，直达成都市中心。

学校办学用地2000亩，规划总建筑面积120万平方米。按照百年高校的建设目标，秉承人与建筑、自然和谐共生的理念，以规划建设中国智造的创梦校园、五元平衡的温馨校园、共享互通的智慧校园、山水交融的生态校园的先进理念，运用人工智能、大数据、云计算、物联网等先进技术， 建设现代化、国际化、生态化的智美校园。

学校不断优化学科专业布局，工学、文学、经济学、管理学、教育学、法学、理学、艺术学、体育学等多学科协调发展。以数字化为引领，聚焦汽车产业与电子信息产业，重点建设与成渝经济圈和吉利集团产业发展密切的应用型学科专业。对接成渝地区双城经济圈汽车、电子信息两大万亿产业，做强智能科技专业集群；发挥集团办学、产教融合优势，做优经济管理专业集群；适应新时代人民美好生活需要，做特人文艺术专业集群。

学校现设有汽车工程学院、智能科技学院、商学院、盛宝金融科技学院、教育学院、数字媒体与表演学院、外国语言与文化学院、艺术设计学院、体育与健康学院、航空航天学院10个二级学院和博雅学院、马克思主义学院、创新创业学院、国际教育学院。设有车辆工程、新能源汽车工程、数据科学与大数据技术、人工智能、艺术设计学、产品设计、财务管理、电子商务、金融科技、广播电视编导、表演、运动康复、飞行器制造等40个本科专业。

学校创新构建了“六双”“六融合”人才培养体系，秉承“走进校园是为了更好地走向社会”的校训，构建了“520”综合素质教育体系。围绕学生理想信念、可持续发展能力、精英特质、人文素养、身心健康的5大核心素养，20项关键能力，形成100门特色通识课程，培养合格的社会主义建设者和接班人。

近年来，学校按照“稳定、培养、引进、借智”的人才队伍建设思路，以全面提高师资队伍素质为中心，以优化结构为重点，优先配置重点专业的师资队伍资源，初步构建了一支师德高尚、结构科学、业务精湛、勤勉奋进的高水平师资队伍。学校不断加强教育改革创新、提升教育教学质量，在全球范围吸引优秀教师、行业企业专家、专家教授到校任教和开展科研工作。

学校依托吉利控股集团企业办校优势，打造一流的教学软硬件环境和实践性教学平台。依据学生在校期间的需求和成长过程，形成了工程认知、工程实践、现代汽车技术、创新创业等实践教学体系。学校与行业领军企业合作建设“数字化制造工程中心”和“超算中心”等高精尖实验实训室；高标准建设一批“实践基地和产业学院”、“实验教学示范中心”、“共享性实训基地”为学生提供真实多维度的实习实训及生产应用场所。学校现有1个国家紧缺人才中心、1个省级实验教学示范中心、是四川省人社厅公务员、建造师等职业资格社会化考试考点，获批新能源（电动）汽车诊断维修技师认证中心，国家级“二手车鉴定评估师认证中心”，拥有57个校外实训基地、116个实验实训室、17500平米的汽车工程试验实训中心、3000平米创新创业学院和181间智慧教室。

学校与吉利汽车、领克、极氪、沃尔沃、百度、京东、铭泰集团、顺丰、华为、腾讯科技、阿里巴巴、融创中国、科大讯飞、万豪国际、金蝶、通威、丹麦盛宝银行、Smart、北京字节跳动等国内外知名企业、行业头部企业建立深度合作，政产学研用协同育人。

办学23年来，学校人才培养质量和办学水平持续提升，毕业生获得企业和社会高度认可。学校荣获中国民办教育协会授予的“中国民办高等教育优秀院校”荣誉；两次荣获北京市民政局授予的“5A级社会组织”荣誉称号；荣获北京市委市政府颁发的“北京市服务和保障中华人民共和国成立70周年庆祝活动先进集体”、《基于汽车产业链“六双”“六融合”应用型人才培养模式》荣获四川省教学成果二等奖、荣获四川省先进基层党组织、荣获全国高校“活力团支部”，艾瑞深2022校友会排名“中国一流应用型大学”等30余项荣誉；学校获批国家紧缺汽车人才培养基地、车辆工程专业获批国家级一流本科专业建设点、获批国家级“新能源（电动）汽车诊断维修技师培训认证中心和国家级“二手车鉴定评估师认证中心”。

展望未来，学校依托北京大学双一流建设资源优势和吉利控股集团产业资源优势，以全球战略性新兴产业发展为先导，瞄准全球科技成果产业化前沿，做好学科和专业群的战略布局，持续提升吉利学院的教育教学质量、科研水平和科技成果转化能力，打造公办和民办高校融通发展、创新发展的典范，培养一大批富有创新精神和实践能力的高素质、高层次、多样化、应用型人才，将吉利学院建设成为数字化特色鲜明的高水平应用型大学，为西部地区高等教育和经济社会发展做出新贡献，为国家高等教育事业创新发展做出新贡献。

Geely University of China is a full-time private undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education, founded in Beijing in 1999 by Geely Holdings Group (a Fortune 500 company), formerly known as Beijing Geely University. In 2014, it was promoted to an undergraduate university with the approval of the Ministry of Education and renamed Beijing Geely University. On March 30, 2020, the Ministry of Education approved the overall relocation of Beijing Geely University to Chengdu and its renaming to Geely University of China.

Geely University of China is located in the West-South opening gateway of China and new engine of economic development - Longquan Lakeside of Chengdu Eastern New Area, with 2,000 mu of land for schooling and a total planned construction area of 1.2 million square meters. Geely University of China has adopted artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, etc. in building an ecological, humanistic, international, intelligent and beautiful campus in compliance with the goal of building a century-old university. In doing so, the University has been upholding the harmonious coexistence of human beings, architecture and nature as well as pursuing "Four Major Goals" for a university enabling Intelligent Manufacturing in China, balanced comprehensive layout, sharing and interconnection, and favorable landscape.

Geely University of China is digital-oriented, with coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as economics, management, education, literature, law, art, and science, and now has forty undergraduate programs. Eight secondary schools have been established, namely, School of Automotive Engineering, School of Intelligent Technology, School of Business, Saxo Fintech School, School of Humanities, School of Art and Design, School of Sports and Health, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, as well as Liberal Arts School, School of Marxism and School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Geely University of China has been optimizing its discipline layout with its merits in engineering and building professional communities around automotive research, industry, sales and service based on the "Four Modernization" of automobile industry (electrification, networking, intelligence and sharing.) along with its industry chain. Economics, management and art are the characteristic disciplines of the University: building national and provincial first-class disciplines and professional communities around the intelligent manufacturing of advanced automobiles and the construction of Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle.

Based on Geely Holding Group's advantages in R&D, production, products and human resources, Geely University of China has transformed into the University's academic, educational, research and teaching resources. With the support of Geely Holding Group, a Fortune 500 company with global vision, the University has built a 100-million high-tech industrial experimental training room, and added 20 million experimental instruments and equipment every year. Deep industry-education integration with well-known international and domestic enterprises and school-enterprise cooperation will provide students with real multidimensional places for internship, training, practice and production and application. The University has provided first-class hardware and software facilities and a practical teaching platform to improve students' practical training and overall qualities. Following the cognitive rule of "from shallow to deep, from lower to higher", the University has set up an engineering system cognitive platform, a basic engineering practical training platform, a modern engineering system training platform and an innovation and entrepreneurship platform, while carrying out "innovative entrepreneurship" training throughout the experimental practical training process, to shape a new experimental practical training system of "vertical to top and horizontal to edge". Geely University of China has 1 provincial experimental teaching demonstration center, 116 experimental training rooms, an engineering center of 17500 square meters, an innovative entrepreneurship center of 3,000 square meters, 181 intelligent classrooms and a 20-million "super computing center".

Peking University provides strategic support for Geely University of China. By setting up the "Western Research Institute of Peking University" in Geely University of China, it will provide substantial support to the construction of disciplines and specialties, the construction of faculties, scientific research and innovation, and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. The University will strive to become a model for the integrated development and innovative development of public and private universities, drawing on the advantages of Peking University's Double First-Class resources.

Geely University of China has been exploring the industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation. It has successively established strategic cooperation with domestic and foreign well-known enterprises, regional leading enterprises and industries such as Geely Automobile, Lynk, ZEEKR, Volvo, Baidu, JD, Mitime Group, SF, Huawei, Tencent Technology, Alibaba, Sunac China, Iflytek, Marriott International, Kingdee, Tongwei, Saxo Bank, SMART, Beijing ByteDance, etc., and implemented the collaborative education model with deep cooperation in Industry-University-Research. To fulfill the university motto of "Education for Better Competence in the Society" proposed by Chairman Li Shufu, meet the differentiated development of students and realize their pursuits for interests, the University expands beyond the traditional talent training model and implements the flexible scheme to provide a comprehensive, three-dimensional, systematic, and multi-dimensional general education system that is student-centered and designed to enhance students' comprehensive qualities and core competencies for the workplace. By taking the development of global strategic emerging industries as the priority and focusing on the industrialization frontier of global scientific and technological achievements, the University will strategically lay out the construction of disciplines and professional communities, and at the same time, make sustainable improvements in the education and teaching quality, scientific standards, transformation of scientific and technological achievements, cultural inheritance and social services, thus contributing to the construction of an application-research-oriented university with global influence, providing all-round services to the high-quality development of the automobile industry and offering Geely's strengths to the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle.