The College of Artificial Intelligence has grown from the fertile ground of Beijing Normal University for  more than a hundred and twenty years. After over 60 years of development and growth, there are 54 full-time teachers, including 4 national high-level talents. Teachers have been repeatedly  selected as "Highly Cited Chinese Scholars" .

The college has 3 provincial and ministerial level research platforms: Engineering Research Centre of Intelligent Technology and Educational Application (Ministry of Education), Engineering Research Center of Virtual Reality Application (Ministry of Education), and Key Laboratory of Beijing Cultural Heritage Digital Preservation and Virtual Reality. The college has a postdoctoral research station in the first-level discipline of Computer Science and Technology and two doctoral degree awarding points in the first-level disciplines of Computer Science and Technology, and Intelligent Science and Technology. It also has three undergraduate majors: Computer Science and Technology (Beijing Campus), Artificial Intelligence (Beijing Campus and Zhuhai Campus) and Data Science and Big Data Technology (Zhuhai Campus). Currently, there are about 550 undergraduate students and 250 graduate students enrolled.

Between 2020 and 2023, the computer science discipline achieved a significant milestone by entering the top 1% in the ESI global ranking and made considerable progress in the fifth round of the national discipline assessment. In recent years, faculty members of the college have received over ten times of national, provincial and ministerial level awards and related talent programs. Currently, BNU places a high emphasis on the field of information science, and the college is experiencing its best period of development in history .