Beijing Foreign Studies University
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| 北京外国语大学 | |
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| Motto | 兼容并蓄 博学笃行[1] |
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| Type | National |
| Established | 1941 |
| President | Peng Long |
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Academic staff
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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.
Contents
Schools and Departments[edit]
Schools[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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)[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[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.[6] [7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "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[edit]
Coordinates: 39°57′15″N 116°18′15″E / 39.95417°N 116.30417°E
