Beijing Foreign Studies University
| 北京外国语大学 | |
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| Motto | 兼容并蓄 博学笃行 |
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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), formerly known as the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (Chinese: 北京外国语学院), is a university located in Beijing, China. It is China's pre-eminent foreign language teaching university according to recent collegiate rankings.
The university's campus occupies 304,553 square meters, with a student dormitory area of 40,000 m² and a library of 9997 m², and is divided in two by Beijing's Third Ring Road. Other facilities on campus include an audiovisual center, a gymnasium, dining halls, and tennis courts. The university is popularly known as Běiwài (Chinese: 北外) in Mandarin and BFSU in English.
As a renowned and prestigious teaching 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.
The wide-ranging studies at BFSU are provided by over 600 faculty members, in addition to approximately 120 international experts and teachers invited from more than 20 countries each year.
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.
Beijing Foreign Studies University was founded by the Communist Party of China in Yan'an in 1941, then known as the Russian Language Team in the Third Branch of Chinese People’s Counter-Japanese Military and Political University (Chinese: 中国抗日军政大学三分校俄文大队). The team was later renamed as Yan’an Foreign Languages School (Chinese: 延安外国语学校). In the Chinese Civil War, the school moved several times, till it settled down in Beijing in 1949 and gained its new name - Beijing Foreign Languages Institute. The current name was used since 1994. It was the first institution in the country to specialize in foreign language studies.
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