Xi'an International Studies University (XISU) (Chinese: 西安外国语大学; pinyin: Xǐ'ān Wàiguóyǔ Dàxué) is located in the city of Xi'an which is famous for the Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses, considered by many to be the "Eighth Wonder" of the world.
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The university was founded in 1952 in Xi'an, Shaanxi with the Russian Department of Northwest University, the Russian Department of Lanzhou University, and the Russian training class of the Chinese Communist Party merged as Northwest Russian Academy. At its establishment, it was one of the four earliest language schools in the People's Republic of China（the other three located at Beijing, Shanghai and Sichuan）, and the only one that teaches most foreign languages in Northwest China .
The university experienced three phases of development in its history. During the first one, from 1952 to 1958, the academy produced many Russian graduates who were the main force in the early construction of new China.
The second one was from 1958 to 2006 when the institution used the name of Xi'an Foreign Language Institute. During this period, the institute experienced dramatic progress in its development with the introduction of undergraduate majors in English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Hindi,and Thai at different times after the Cultural Revolution, and with the Education Ministry's approval Master Degree programs in English, Russian, French, German, and Japanese.
The current and ongoing phase began in 2006 when the Education Ministry upgraded the institute to a university, because of its comprehensive majors and minors, and its academic force.
Now the university has 27 academic schools, colleges, and departments with 39 majors and 7 minors. It has 19 graduate programs of different foreign languages. It is now considered by many to be one of the top five foreign language universities in China.
There are also 22 centers in fields such as foreign languages and literature, foreign language and teaching, human geography, bilingual dictionary compiling and editing.
Presently there are about 24,000 students studying in the university. Alumni of XISU work all over the world, mostly in education. Many of them are working at universities in the U.S., England, Japan, Germany, and France. The university has established cooperative programs such as exchange programs with faculty, administrators, and students with most countries.
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