Beijing International Studies University

Beijing International Studies University (BISU) is located in the Chaoyang District of Beijing which adjoins the famous Beijing CBD (Central Business District). BISU boasts a campus that has been described as a "garden of a campus."

Founded in 1964, BISU is a nationwide renowned comprehensive university of higher education. It has developed into a multi-disciplinary university incorporating liberal arts, management, economics and law with specialties in foreign languages and tourism as its most distinguished features.

Selecting students nationwide, the university takes it as its main task to train professionals proficient in foreign languages, tourism, economics, trade and finance, for the national economic construction and social advance.

Besides the modern languages departments that teach English, Japanese, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Korean, the university offers courses in a multiple of schools. They are The School of International Communication, The School of Law and Politics, The School of International Economics and Trade, The School of Tourism Management, The School of International Cultural Exchange, The School of Continuing Education, The School of Advanced Vocational Education and The Academy of Tourism Development.

And also the university has Institute for Trans-cultural Studies and Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Institute. Following a policy of providing higher education for its students on a multi-level and-purpose basis, the university offers 18 specialties providing undergraduate programs. They are English, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, French, Korean, German, Portuguese, Chinese Language and Culture, International Politics, Law, Tourism Management, Journalism, Marketing, Finance Management, Finance and International Economics and Trade. The specialties of English, Japanese, Russian, Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Enterprise Management, International Business, Tourism Management offer postgraduate programs. Currently the university has an enrollment of more than 8000 Chinese and 900 plus international students including postgraduate, undergraduate and language students.

Among the 600 plus faculty members, 200 are professors and associate professors and most of them have studied or taught abroad. In addition, the university has multi-media language laboratories of various sizes, classrooms equipped with computers, and a satellite-TV reception system. Its library has a rich collection of books and periodicals which provides users with up-to-date information on a wide range of subjects.

The Foreign student dormitories are all equipped with a double bed, some furniture, bed linen, TV, air conditioning and telephone.