College of Life Science and Technology was founded on December 25, 2003, the college adheres to the philosophy of “not the biggest, but the best, not comprehensive, but excellence”, through the joint efforts of teachers and students of the college, the college has achieved fruitful results in the construction of academic disciplines, teaching, scientific research, personnel training, etc., providing strong support for the construction of “double first-class”. Through the joint efforts of teachers and students, the college has achieved fruitful results in discipline construction, teaching, research and talent cultivation, providing strong support for the construction of “Double First Class”.

The college has established a complete talent training system for bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctoral degree. The undergraduate training has 3 majors: Bioengineering and Pharmaceutical Engineering are national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and Biomedical Engineering is Beijing first-class undergraduate major construction site. Graduate training includes four academic master's programs, one professional master's program and two first-level doctoral programs, among which chemical engineering and technology is a national first-class discipline, and bioengineering has entered the top disciplines in the fifth round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education.

The college has the National Energy Biorefinery R&D Center, the Biorefinery Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, the Beijing Key Laboratory of Bioprocessing, the Beijing High Precision Center of Soft Matter Science - Synthetic Biology Subcenter, the Bohai Rim Bioindustry Research Institute of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and the Beijing University of Chemical Technology-China-Japanese Friendship Hospital Center for Translational Research in Biomedicine.

There are 95 faculty members in the college, including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Changjiang Scholars Distinguished Professors, National Outstanding Youth Fund Recipients, National Outstanding Youth Fund Recipients, 973 Chief Scientists, Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize Recipients, Ministry of Education's Talents of the New Century, Beijing Municipal Rising Stars of Science and Technology, National Teaching Masters, and Beijing Municipal Teaching Masters, etc., and there are also a number of internationally renowned professors who are appointed as adjunct professors of the college on a year-round basis.

Adhering to the main battlefield of national economic construction, the college has strong scientific research strength and distinctive features in the fields of green biological manufacturing, biological resources and environmental engineering, synthetic biology, biomedicine and biosafety. In the past five years, the college has undertaken nearly 200 national, provincial and ministerial-level scientific research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, with scientific research amounting to nearly 400 million yuan; published more than 800 high-level research papers, including 2 papers in Nature, 3 papers in Cell, and 1 paper in Lancet; and obtained nearly 200 patents, which have been transformed into billions of yuan of economic benefits. The college has won two second prizes for national technological inventions, one second prize for national scientific and technological progress, 16 provincial and ministerial prizes, and more than 10 provincial and ministerial appraisal achievements, and the per capita scientific research funding ranks the forefront of similar faculties and departments in China.

The college attaches importance to the quality of talent cultivation, and strives to innovate the talent cultivation mode to serve the students' comprehensive success. Students have won many outstanding achievements in international iGEM competition, national “Challenge Cup” and other extracurricular science and technology competitions. In recent years, the college has been in the forefront of the university in terms of study abroad, graduate school and employment rate.