Beijing Foreign Studies University

Beijing Foreign Studies University, or BFSU, located on North Xisanhuan Road in Haidian district, Beijing, is one of China’s leading universities under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education (MOE). It is listed under Project 211, Project 985’s Innovation Platform and the first round of the Double First-Class Project of China.  Today, BFSU teaches 101 foreign languages. It houses China's largest non-general language teaching cluster that offers courses in some less commonly taught European, Asian and African languages, as the first of the MOE's special teaching programs. While best known for its excellence in foreign languages and literature, BFSU has also launched programs in fields such as humanities, law, economics, management and education. It now offers courses in languages including (in chronological order) Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Japanese, Arabic, Cambodian, Lao, Singhalese, Malay, Swedish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Swahili, Burmese, Indonesian, Italian, Croatian, Serbian, Hausa, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish, Korean, Slovak, Finnish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish, Greek, Filipino, Hindi, Urdu, Hebrew, Persian, Slovenian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Irish, Maltese, Bengali, Kazakh, Uzbek, Latin, Zulu, Kyrgyz, Pashto, Sanskrit, Pali, Amharic, Nepalese, Somali, Tamil, Turkmen, Català, Yoruba, Mongolian, Armenian, Malagasy, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Afrikaans, Macedonian, Tajiki, Tswana, Ndebele, Comorian, Creole, Shona, Tigrinya, Belarusian, Maori, Tongan, Samoan, Kurdish, Bislama, Dari, Tetum, Dhivehi, Fijian, Cook Islands Maori, Kirundi, Luxembourgish, Kinyarwanda, Niuean, Tok Pisin, Chewa, Sesotho, Sango, Tamazight, Javanese and Punjabi. To better serve China’s diplomatic efforts, it teaches the official languages of the 183 countries that have established diplomatic relations with China. BFSU has schools, departments and centers dedicated to teaching and research, including some newly established in recent years. That group includes a teaching materials department, the first of its kind in domestic universities, the School of International Organizations, the Graduate School of Education, the BFSU Artificial Intelligence and Human Languages Lab (BFSU•AI) and the BFSU Research Centre for Country-Specific Translation and Interpretation Capacity. Furthermore, the School of Asian and African Studies was restructured into two independent schools – the School of Asian Studies and the School of African Studies. With global languages, global culture and global governance as its strategic priorities, the university has initiated the establishment of the Global Alliance of Foreign Studies Universities, the Consortium for Country and Area Studies and the Chinese Consortium for Country and Area Studies.