Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) (Chinese: 北京外国语大学; pinyin: Běijīng Wàiguóyǔ Dàxué) is a university located in Beijing, China. As one of the most prestigious foreign language teaching universities in China, it has an unsurpassed reputation for the excellence of its teaching and research.
The university's campus occupies 304,553 square meters, with a student dormitory area of 40,000 m² and a library of 9997 m², and is divided in two by Beijing's Third Ring Road. Other facilities on campus include an audiovisual center, dining halls, and tennis courts. The university is popularly known as Běiwài (Chinese: 北外) in Mandarin and BFSU in English.
As a renowned teaching university, BFSU was affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from its establishment to the early 1980s and was classified a key university under the Ministry of Education.
BFSU qualified for the first round of the competition in its efforts to enter Project 211, a university development programme launched by the Ministry of Education in 1996.
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