Beijing Foreign Studies University

Beijing Foreign Studies University
Beijing Foreign Studies University
	北京外国语大学
Motto	(兼容并蓄博学笃行)
Established	1941
Type	National
President	Han Zhen
Academic staff	1,413
Students	8,600
Location	Beijing, China
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.bfsulaw.com/

Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) (Chinese: 北京外国语大学; pinyin: Běijīng Wàiguóyǔ Dàxué) is a university located in Beijing, China. It is one of China's foremost foreign language teaching universities.

The university's campus occupies 304,553 square meters, with a student dormitory area of 40,000 m² and a library of 9997 m², and is divided in two by Beijing's Third Ring Road. Other facilities on campus include an audiovisual center, a gymnasium, dining halls, and tennis courts. The university is popularly known as Běiwài (Chinese: 北外) in Mandarin and BFSU in English.

As a renowned teaching university, BFSU was affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from its establishment to the early 1980s and was classified a key university under the Ministry of Education.

The highly-qualified faculty of BFSU number more than 600, in addition to approximately 120 international experts and teachers invited from more than 20 countries each year, providing BFSU students with a world-class education.

BFSU qualified for the first round of the competition in its efforts to enter Project 211, a university development programme launched by the Ministry of Education in 1996.

Schools and Departments [edit]

Schools [edit]

The gym of Beiwai

Law School

School of Asian and African Studies
- Department of Korean Studies
- Department of Southeast Asian studies
  - Cambodian Studies
  - Lao Studies
  - Malay Studies
  - Indologie
  - Vietnamese studies
  - Burma studies
  - Thai studies
  - Filipinology
- Department of South Asian Studies
  - Sinhala
  - Hindi
  - Urdu
- Department of West Asian and African Studies

School of Chinese Language and Literature
- Department of Chinese Language
- Department of Chinese as a foreign language

School of English and International Studies
- Department of English Studies
- Department of International Journalism and Communication
- Department of Translation and Interpretation
- Department of Irish studies

School of European Languages and Culture
- Department of Eastern and Southern European Studies
  - Albanology
  - Bulgarian Studies
  - Czech studies
  - Slovak Studies
  - Romanian Studies
  - Hungarian studies
  - Italian Studies
  - Latin
  - Maltese Studies
  - Polish Studies
  - Serbian Studies
  - Croatian studies
  - Slovene Studies
  - Greek Studies
- Department of Northern European Studies
  - Danish Studies
  - Dutch Studies
  - Estonian Studies
  - Finnish Studies
  - Icelandic Studies
  - Latvian Studies
  - Lithuanian Studies
  - Norwegian Studies

School of International Business
- Department of Accounting
- Department of Business Administration
- Department of E-commerce and Information Management
- Department of Finance
- Department of International economics
- 国际金融与商务研究所

School of International Relations and Diplomacy
- Department of Diplomacy
- Department of International Politics
- 国际问题研究所

School of Russian Studies Институт Русского Языка
- Russian Studies
- Ukrainian studies

Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation

Departments [edit]

Department of Arabic Studies
- Arabic Studies

Department of French and Francophone Studies
- French Studies
- Swiss Studies

Department of German Studies
- German Studies
- Swedish Studies

Department of Japanese Studies
- Japanese Studies

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
- Spanish Studies
- Portuguese Studies

Online Law Programs [edit]

Since in 2012, Beijing Foreign Studies University became the first Chinese University to offer its law courses online in English in a partnership with Spirit of Law School of Law. This includes an online LLM for international professionals and is awarded by Beijing Foreign Studies University, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Justice of the People’s Republic of China. Full information can be found at www.bfsulaw.com.^[1]^[2]

Languages [edit]

Arabic
English
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latin
Persian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Thai
Turkish
Vietnamese

Source:^[3]

International students [edit]

International students told the Global Times newspaper they were highly satisfied with the Chinese language program. The report also said the facilities are modern and the teaching staff is dedicated.^[4] ^[5]

Notable faculty, administrators, and alumni [edit]

Faculty [edit]

Wang Zuoliang 王佐良-literary critic and poet, professor of English literature
Xu Guozhang 许国璋 – educator, author of English, nicknamed by users as Xu Guozhang English
Zhou Jueliang 周珏良-literary critic, professor of English literature
Hu Wenzhong 胡文仲-Co-host of BBC English language teaching program Follow Me!, professor of Australian literature, educator
Chen Lin 陈琳 – educator
He Qixin 何其莘 – co-author of New Concept English
jin limin 金利民 – co-author of New Concept English