International Students

The only international university in Beijing China with its main task set on teaching the Chinese language and culture to foreign students. The undertaking of teaching students as a foreign language was started in the people's republic of china in 1950s.

Today Beijing Language and Culture University has developed into an internationally famous school with appropriate scope, distinctive educational features, advantages key specialties and coordinated development of both language and culture education. Each year there are about 8,000 international foreign language students from more than 120 countries and 4,000 home students' learning and studying here.

After 40 years of unremitting efforts, BLCU has set up a strong teaching faculty and made outstanding achievements in teaching and academic research. More than 700 teachers and full time researchers, 300 are professors or associate professors. 500 are the holders of the certificate for teaching Chinese as a foreign language, accounting for one-fourth of the total certificate holders in china.

The programs are offered to the international students who want to improve communicative competence in Chinese within a brief time frame. Students are grouped into five classes of A, B, C, D and E according to their responsive levels.
BLCU always attaches great importance to international exchanges and co-operations. With the expansion of China's exchanges and co-operations with other countries, the university is also increasing its co-operations and exchanges with numerous foreign countries, and right now it has built partnerships with 157 universities from 31 countries in the world. Joint teaching centers have been established in some other provinces and cities of the country, and the overseas branch schools have been set up in the Republic of Korea, Singapore and Thailand as remarkable results of education extending. And all this helps in accumulating experiences in further improvement.

The university publishes three kinds of core periodicals, namely, "Language Teaching and Research","International Chinese Teaching", "Research on the Chinese Culture". Up till now, the university press has published some 1,500 text books in diversified fields, and made widespread influence both at home and abroad. Educational institutions and training organizations of various kinds in around a hundred countries have adopted the text books of teaching Chinese as foreign language published by BLCU press.