BUAA meaning in Academic & Science ?

Beihang University (simplified Chinese: 北航大学; traditional Chinese: 北航大學; pinyin: Běiháng Dàxué), previously known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (simplified Chinese: 北京航空航天大学; traditional Chinese: 北京航空航天大學; pinyin: Běijīng Hángkōng Hángtiān Dàxué), abbreviated as BUAA or Beihang (Chinese: 北航; pinyin: Běiháng), is a major public research university located in Haidian District, Beijing, China, emphasizing engineering, technology, and the hard sciences.

Beihang University is designated as an eminent key university ( literally a "first-rate university" of type-A ) by China's Ministry of Education Class A . It was one of China's key universities subsidized by "Project 985" funding and by " Project 211" funding. Beihang was founded on October 25, 1952, with an areaof over 100 hectares.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.