Dalian University of Foreign Languages
Dalian University of Foreign Languages (DUFL) is located in the glamorous coastal city of Dalian. Formerly known as Dalian School of Japanese Language, it was officially founded in 1964 with the gracious support of the late Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. It aimed at educating professionals such as foreign affairs officials, and Japanese translators and interpreters. It is currently under the jurisdiction of the Education Department of Liaoning Province. Through half a century of growth, while upholding the motto of Intellectualis et Eclectic, DUFL has become a fully-fledged multidisciplinary university of international studies, also offering programs in other areas like art, economics, management, engineering, law and pedagogy in addition to instruction in a wide range of languages.
DUFL consists of twenty schools or departments and twenty-one research centers, with over 1100 faculty members, and has a total enrollment of over 15,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and vocational students.
It offers thirty-three undergraduate programs of which twenty-four lead to graduate programs. Students can also pursue a doctoral program in Diplomacy Studies. Undergraduate programs include Japanese, English, Russian, French, Korean, German, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Chinese Literature, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Art Design, Tourism Management, International Economics and Trade, Computer Science and Technology, Information Management and Information Systems, Software Engineering, Journalism and Musicology. The Japanese, English and Russian Language and Literature programs (accredited by the Ministry of Education) are designated as key disciplinary majors at national level.
As one of the largest international centers of instruction in Northeast China, DUFL attaches great importance to international exchanges and pursues these in a variety of ways. It has entered into partnerships with over 180 tertiary institutions and twenty civil society structures from about thirty countries.
DUFL has been entrusted with the management of Confucius Institutes in Russia, Japan, Korea, Columbia, Guyana, Brazil and Armenia. It is also an accredited host institution for students on international Chinese government scholarships and is home to a number of organizations, centers and institutes, including the University League of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Sino-Russian Students Exchange Center (China), the International Promotion of the Chinese Language Base, the School for Confucius Institute Reserve Teachers, the University of Hong Kong-Mainland Students and Teachers Exchange Program, the International Youth Center, the Ukrainian Studies Center, the Provincial Base for Humanities Research, and the Center for Russian Studies ( sponsored by the Russian World Foundation).
DUFL has an official pre-departure training center for students going abroad for further studies. There is also a national testing center, directly supervised by the Ministry of Education, and administering over twenty language tests. Our university is a cradle for foreign language talents and a bridge leading to the world.
As a teaching unit directly under Dalian University of Foreign Languages, the International Education College is the vice chairman unit of the Foreign Language Higher Education Professional Committee of the China Adult Education Association, the preparatory education center of the China Scholarship Council, and the project cooperation unit of the Ministry of Education's Study Abroad Service Center. Based on the advantages of Dalian University of Foreign Languages' majors and international education resources, the college upholds the school philosophy of "open school, shared development, innovative management, and service to the society", integrates high-quality Chinese and foreign educational resources, and forms a joint academic education, overseas study service and multi-field training. The education system provides high-quality education products that meet the requirements of the new era and serves the local economic and social development.
The college has 11 business departments and 7 management departments, with nearly 100 faculty members. The business covers preschool education, multilingual training, youth quality education, cultural course guidance, international undergraduate education, adult education, vocational education and other fields, forming a complete education ecology with distinctive international characteristics.
As a window unit of Dalian University of Foreign Languages serving the society, in its many years of school-running practice, the School of International Education has always put the social benefits of running a school in the first place. The college follows the university philosophy of "education-oriented, quality first, outstanding characteristics, and scientific development", adheres to morality, strives to improve the quality of talent training and the strength of running schools, actively serves the strategic needs of the country and Liaoning Province, and cultivates its own country The goal is high-quality international talents with feelings, global vision, courage to take responsibility, and serving the country's strategic needs. Deepen the connotation of running a school, innovate the talent training model, and actively build a win-win platform for cooperation between Chinese and foreign high-quality educational resources, and have embarked on a road of continuing education development with the characteristics of Dalian University of Foreign Languages. The School of International Education has become an international, compound and applied talent training unit with strong comprehensive strength in the Northeast.