Dalian University of Foreign Languages

Dalian University of Foreign Languages is located in the beautiful coastal city of Dalian. It is a foreign language university administered by Liaoning Province, authorized to award bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and offers a doctoral training project serving special national needs in High-End Talent for Northeast Asian Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs. Established in 1964 with Premier Zhou Enlai’s close support, it was renamed from Dalian Institute of Foreign Languages to Dalian University of Foreign Languages in 2013. It has 21 teaching institutions, 44 undergraduate programs, 6 first-level master’s degree fields, 21 second-level master’s degree fields and 9 professional master’s degree fields.

It has nearly one thousand faculty and staff and approximately 15000 students of various categories. Since its founding, more than one hundred graduates have joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, earning it the reputation of “the university outside Beijing with the most graduates admitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.” It values external exchange, pursues open education and has distinctive international characteristics. It has friendly partnerships with 274 universities and research institutions in 43 countries and regions, using 2+2, 3+1, 2+1+1, 5+1 and 4+2 models to jointly train undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students and successfully connect language study with professional education. Its 2+2 cooperation project with Russian universities was included in the intergovernmental China-Russia educational cooperation implementation plan. In 2012, it established the Chinese Presidents’ Office of the University of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to jointly train high-level talent for regional cooperation. It is a national multilingual base for the international promotion of Chinese and one of Liaoning’s first demonstration bases for international student education. It has established ten Confucius Institutes in Russia, Japan, South Korea, Colombia, Guyana, Armenia, Brazil, Portugal, Italy and Tunisia, actively disseminating Chinese culture and promoting people-to-people exchange.

It is an important institution for international Chinese language teaching in China and was among the country’s earliest universities to establish an undergraduate Chinese Language program. It is the Dalian HSK test center and a host institution for Chinese Government Scholarships, International Chinese Language Teachers Scholarships and Liaoning Provincial Government Scholarships. Its School of Chinese Studies was established in 1985 and has educated over 20000 international students from more than 120 countries. Each year, it receives more than 1500 international student visits from nearly 70 countries, including long- and short-term study. Its international student education has passed Ministry of Education quality accreditation.