Capital Normal University (CNU) is a national “Double-First Class” university co-sponsored both by the Beijing Municipal Government and the State Ministry of Education (MOE). CNU offers multiple disciplines including literature, science, engineering, management, law, education, foreign language and art etc. All disciplines at all levels are open to international students.
CNU is located next to the West 3rd Ring Road of Beijing, with convenient transportation and first-class teachers. It has the best teaching facilities and international student dorm in Beijing. CNU is currently composed of 30 colleges and schools, offering 1 associate degree program, 59 undergraduate programs, 142 master’s programs, and 101 PH.D programs, with a total enrollment of nearly 30,000 students. Approximately 2,500 international students study in CNU for long-term and short-term programs every year.
The College of International Education (CIE) was established in 1999. The college actively carries out the education and management of international students, Sino-foreign cooperative education programs and management of overseas Confucius Institutes. It has also set up 4 Confucius Institutes, 2 Independent Confucius Classrooms and 1 Confucius Classroom Coordination Office, namely the Confucius Institute at St Petersburg State University in Russia, the Confucius Institute at the University of Venice in Italy, the Confucius Institute at the University of Piura in Peru, the Confucius Institute at the University of Bremen in Germany, the Independent Confucius Classroom at the Hungarian-Chinese Bilingual School in Hungary, the Independent Confucius Classroom at the University of Luxor in Egypt and the Confucius Classroom Coordination Office of Minnesota in America. In collaboration with Flinders University in Australia, it has cultivated 844 Master of Education students.
With its diversified training system, excellent faculty and excellent teaching quality, CIE recruits about 2,500 long-term and short-term international students from around 100 countries every year, and actively cooperates with various colleges/departments of CNU to promote the multi-level development of international education to a higher level.
CNU is one of the earliest universities which started the education of international students in China. Now, it is entitled to Demonstration Base for International Students Education of Ministry of Education, Preparatory Education for International Students,Talent Training Base for "Belt and Road" Countries, HSK Testing Center and Beijing Chinese Language Education Base.
All specialties at all levels of CNU are open to international students. At present, the popular majors for international students are:
Chinese Language
Master of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages
International Economy and Trade
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Tourism management
Chinese Language and Literature
International Business
Archaeology
History
Geographic Information Science (Undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs offered in English is open)
Music and Dance
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Fine Arts (Chinese Calligraphy Culture)
Education
CNU offers various scholarships, such as Chinese Government Scholarship, International Chinese Language Teachers Scholarship (Confucius Institute Scholarship) and Beijing Municipal Government Scholarship. We welcome outstanding young people from all over the world to study at Capital Normal University!