Beijing Language and Culture University

Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU; 北京语言大学) is a public university of linguistics in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China.The university has the main aim of teaching the Chinese language and culture to foreign students. It is a key university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. It is the only international university founded by the People's Republic of China named after "language" and with the main mission of spreading Chinese language and culture. However, it also takes Chinese students specializing in foreign languages and other relevant subjects of humanities and social sciences, and trains teachers of Chinese as a foreign language. It used to be the only institute of this kind in China.

Type

Public university

Founded

1962

Students

13,000

Also known as

BLCU, Bei Yu, Bei jing yu yan da xue, Beijing Language University