Beijing Foreign Studies University

Introduction to Beijing Foreign Studies UniversityBeijing Foreign Studies University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, a member of the "985" advantageous discipline innovation platform, and one of the first universities in the national "211 Project". It is the foreign language university with the longest history, the largest number of taught languages, and the most complete educational levels among Chinese institutions of higher learning. The university was founded in 1941 and currently has 13 schools, 71 majors, and offers courses in 58 foreign languages. It has basically formed a professional pattern with foreign language and literature disciplines as the main body, and coordinated development of liberal arts, law, economics, management, and other disciplines. The university has established cooperation and exchange relations with 426 universities and academic institutions in 72 countries and regions worldwide, and has hosted 20 overseas Confucius Institutes. Closely combining with national development needs, the university has formed the school-running philosophy of "Foreign, Specialized, and Refined" and the motto of "Inclusiveness, and Learning with Practice", becoming an important base for cultivating high-quality涉外 talents in diplomacy, translation, foreign trade, journalism, law, finance, and other fields. It has cultivated more than 90,000 high-quality foreign-related talents, among whom more than 400 have served as ambassadors abroad, and over 1,000 as counselors. Therefore, the university has won the reputation of "the Cradle of Diplomats of the People's Republic of China". Introduction to the School of Online and Continuing EducationTo integrate internal continuing education resources and improve the quality of continuing education talent cultivation, Beijing Foreign Studies University merged the original School of Online Education, School of Continuing Education, School of Training, and Tongwen Education Development and Training Center into the School of Online and Continuing Education on December 5, 2012. The newly established School of Online and Continuing Education is a secondary school directly under the university that specializes in providing non-full-time regular higher education as well as various foreign language training, examinations, and translation services.