Beijing Foreign Studies University
Persian
BachelorPROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- The school recruits international students in spring and autumn
- Divided into classes alone taught in English. When becoming a senior, they can take the same class with Chinese students.
- Opportunity to exchange learning and gain the growth in knowledge. In their third year, students can choose our partner universities such as Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Russia, in exchange of learning for one semester.
- An immersion week every year. It’s professor who will lead students to visit enterprise and then have a group discussion during this period. Immersion week will end with carrying out a speech about this activity.
- Perfect student management system. The university has set up a marketing department, student service department as well as educational administration for international students. The Student Union serves more than 200 international students from the International Business College.
- Start regular lectures the Senior Executives give, which promotes students to obtain the latest business information.
- There are internship bases between school and enterprises.
Introduction
Founded in 1961, School of Asian and African Studies of BFSU (previously named as “Department of Asian and African Languages”) is well known for its teaching and research specialties in Asian and African Languages and Literature, Asian and African Area Studies and Translation Theory & Practice. In September 2019, School of Asian Studies was founded after School of Asian and African Studies was expanded to be School of Asian Studies and School of African Studies. Currently, School of Asian Studies offers 23 foreign language programs for Bachelor Degrees, including Korean, Thai, Malay, Turkish, and etc.As one of the oldest and largest schools among all the Foreign Languages Universities over the country, School of Asian Studies has already made the declaration for 30 Asian Languages on the record.
Approved by The Ministry of Education, the National Non-Common Languages Undergraduate Personnel Training Bases was established at the Department of Asian and African Languages in 2001, and incorporated into the “The Project of Higher Education Reform in the New Century”. In April 2007, approved by The Ministry of Education and the Beijing Municipal Government, School of Asian and African Studies became the characteristic specialty key department for Higher Education at the same year.
Up to now, School of Asian Studies has established several Academic Research and Cultural Exchange Organizations, including Center for ROK And DPRK Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Center For South Asian Studies, Center For West Asian Studies, Center for Sri Lankan Studies, Indonesia Center, Center for Iranian Culture, Center for Vietnamese Studies, Center for Khmer Studies, Center for Lao Studies, and etc. The School also publishes Academic Journals including Journal of Asian and African Studies, and etc.
Faculty
School of Asian Studies owns a group of professional faculties. They are not only with rich teaching experiences, but also enthusiastic about the career in non-common languages teaching. Currently, there are 61 Chinese teachers in the School, where 40% of them are Professors and Associate Professors; 75% of them own Doctoral Degrees in the areas of Asian Languages and Literature, Political Science, Philosophy, Law, History, Arts and many other research fields. Each year, the School recruits over 20 foreign experts to teach relevant majors, and invites several Chinese or Overseas Scholars to serve as visiting professors and discipline consultants.
Qualifications:
1. High school diploma and above.
2. Non-Chinese citizens who hold a foreign passport and comply with the relevant regulations set by the “Document No. 12 (2020) of Ministry of Education of the PRC ".
3. Physically and mentally healthy.
4. Applicants under 18 years old (Per September) should provide a letter of guarantee for their guardian in China (notarization required).
Application Documents:
1. Scan passport: Front page and Endorsement page (page 3/4, if there is an addition or change of name). (bit.ly/ContohPassport) (bit.ly/ContohEndorsement)
2. Recent passport size photo, with the following format: Recent full-faced passport size photo (the head occupies 70% of the size of the photo); the aspect ratio is 4:3; white background without borders; the size is 100-500KB (*.jpg,*.jpeg). (bit.ly/ContohPhoto)
3. Language Certificates
- English Taught: IELTS with an overall score of 5.5/6.0 or TOEFL IBT 85 (different for each university)
- Chinese Taught: HSK 4-6 (levels and minimum scores are different for each major and university)
4. High school diploma (for bachelor degree) and Bachelor or Master diploma (for master and doctoral degree), hasn’t graduated students should provide an official statement from your high school or university as proof of graduation (Pre-Graduation Statement). (bit.ly/PreGraduationLetter)
5. High school transcripts (for bachelor degree) and university transcripts (for master and doctoral degree), page sorted in 1 file. Please contact the school to get ‘1 sheet’ kinds of transcripts. (bit.ly/ContohOnePageTranscript)
6. 2 (two) recommendation letters from your teachers in high school (for bachelor degree) and two university professors (for master and doctoral degrees) along with letterhead and stamp from the school. Please also include the email and phone number of recommenders.
7. Study Plan / Personal Statement, approximately 800 words (English/Mandarin) and must be signed with a clear name. You could check general personal statement points grid here (bit.ly/PoinPersonalStatement)
8. Additional requirements that apply vary from university to university, for example:
- Entrance Examination / Interview.
- Financial Statement (from Bank).
- Certificate of No Criminal Record (SKCK) from the Local Indonesian Police. (bit.ly/ContohSKCK)
- Medical Check Up Report. (bit.ly/SayaratPengisianForm) (bit.ly/PhysicalExaminationForm)
Note:
- Documents number 4-6 above, MUST be translated into English / Mandarin, and legalized by the school or you could use the services of a sworn translator.
- Please neatly SCAN each file in pdf format, the size must not be more than 1 MB (except the passport photo must comply with the requirements above), then upload everything to the system at www.greatwall.co.id.