Tianjin Foreign Studies University

Tianjin Foreign Studies University (TFSU) was founded in 1964. As one of eight such universities in China, it offers a number of language and cultural programs to Chinese and overseas students of various educational backgrounds. The main campus and Binhai campus occupy an area of 1,500 mu with a floor space of nearly 200,000 square meters. Most of its buildings are in the classical and elegant Western European style. The clean and quiet campus is an ideal place for the teaching and study of foreign languages, of international trade and economics, and for foreign studies and academic research.

The university offers 30 programs in over 20 specialties, namely, English, Japanese, Korean,German, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese Language & Culture,Journalism, World Economy and Trade, Law, Finance, Educational Technology, and Information Management and Information Systems. Moreover, the university also offers certificate and non-certificate education to students of different educational background. Administratively under the university are the Faculty of Graduate Studies, the School of Sinology, the Further Education School, the Institute of Translation Studies, the Institute of Comparative Studies of Chinese and Foreign Culture, Advanced Educational Technology Center, and the Affiliated Secondary Foreign Languages School.

The University is authorized to confer Master of Arts Degrees. It has administered Tianjin Higher Education Examinations for self-taught undergraduate students and students for associate degree majoring in English and Japanese. Tianjin Overseas Tests Center under the Ministry of Education responsible for overseas tests in Tianjin area is in the university. The university has provided successful languages training programs for candidates detailed by the Ministry of Education and the Bureaus and Commissions under the Tianjin Municipal Government for further education or research work abroad.

In the past few decades, the university, taking teaching as the central task and through various channels, has nurtured a large number of qualified students majoring in foreign languages and developed in an all-round way. Remarkable achievements have been registered in teaching and academic research, as the university tries to broaden the field of study, blaze new ways for school-running, upgrade the quality of the students and the academic competence of the teachers, improve the teaching facilities, and strengthen international exchanges. So far, the university has graduated more than 10,000 students with an associate degree, bachelor degree or master degree, thus making great contributions to the economic construction, opening up drive, international exchange, and social progress of China, and of Tianjin in particular.