Beijing Foreign Studies University
| 北京外国语大学 | |
 | |
| Motto | 兼容并蓄 博学笃行[1] |
|---|---|
| Type | National |
| Established | 1941 |
| President | Peng Long |
Academic staff | 1,413 |
| Students | 8,600 |
| Location | Beijing, China |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | http://www.bfsu.edu.cn/ |
Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) (Chinese: 北京外国语大学; pinyin: Běijīng Wàiguóyǔ Dàxué), popularly known as Běiwài (Chinese: 北外) in Mandarin and BFSU in English, is a university located in Beijing, China. It is China's pre-eminent research university specializing in foreign studies according to recent collegiate rankings.[2]
As a renowned and prestigious specialist research university, BFSU was affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from its establishment in 1941 to the early 1980s and was classified a key university under the Ministry of Education. BFSU is praised for offering the widest range of language studies in China: as of December 2016, there are 84 foreign languages being taught in this university.[1]
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
Schools
- 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
- 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
- Department of Eastern and Southern European Studies
- International Business School
- 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
- Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation
- International Institute of China Studies
Departments
- Department of Arabic Studies
- Department of French and Francophone Studies
- French Studies
- Swiss Studies
- Department of German Studies
- German Studies
- Swedish Studies
- Department of Japanese Studies
- Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
- Spanish Studies
- Portuguese Studies
- Department of Computer Science
Research centre(s)
- National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education [3]
This centre has a good team of researchers of corpus linguistics in China.[4] They have compiled a number of influential corpora, such as Chinese English learners' corpora, and parallel corpora of Chinese-English translation. They also have a great many corpora on the CQPweb.[5]
Languages
- English
- Russian
- French
- German
- Japanese
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Arabic
- Italian
- Swedish
- Cambodian
- Vietnamese
- Lao
- Burmese
- Thai
- Indonesian
- Malay
- Sinhalese
- Turkish
- Korean
- Swahili
- Hausa
- Polish
- Czech
- Hungarian
- Romanian
- Bulgarian
- Slovak
- Serbian
- Croatian
- Albanian
- Finnish
- Ukrainian
- Dutch
- Norwegian
- Danish
- Icelandic
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Persian
- Hindi
- Urdu
- Filipino
- Slovenian
- Estonian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Irish Gaelic
- Bengali
- Kazakh
- Uzbek
- Zulu
- Latin
- Kyrgyz
- Pashto
- Amharic
- Sanskrit
- Pali
- Somali
- Nepali
- Tamil
- Turkmen
- Catalan
- Yoruba
- Mongolian
- Armenian
- Madagascar
- Georgian
- Azerbaijani
- Afrika
- Macedonian
- Tajik
- Tswana
- isiNdebele
- Comorian
- Creole
- Sauceda
- Tigrinya
- Belarusian
- Maori
- Tonga
- Samoan
- Kurdish
- Chinese (as a foreign language)
International students
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.[6] [7]
References
- 1 2 3 "简介". Beijing Foreign Studies University. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
- ↑ "高校排名：2014年中国语言类大学排行榜". Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ "中国外语教育研究中心". www.sinotefl.org.cn. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
- ↑ "Home Page | 北外语料库语言学". www.bfsu-corpus.org. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
- ↑ "CQPweb Main Page". 111.200.194.212. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-02. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-02. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
External links
Coordinates: 39°57′15″N 116°18′15″E / 39.95417°N 116.30417°E
