Founded in 1964, Beijing International Studies University is a nationwide renowned key comprehensive university of higher education and has developed into a multi-disciplinary university incorporating liberal arts,management, economics and law,with the specialities of foreign languages and tourism as its most distinguishing feature. Selecting students nationwide, the university takes it as its main task to train professionals proficient in foreign languages, tourism, economics, trade and finance, for the national economic construction and social advance. Besides the modern languages departments that teach English, Japanese, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Korean, the university offers courses in a multiple of schools.

They are The School of International Communication, The School of Law and Politics, The School of International Economics and Trade��The School of Tourism Management, The School of International Cultural Exchange, The School of Continuing Education,The School of Advanced Vocational Education and The Academy of Tourism Development. And also the university has Institute for Transcultural Studies and Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Institute. Following a policy of providing higher education for its students on a multi-level and-purpose basis, the university offers 18 specialties providing undergraduate programs. They are English, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, French, Korean, German, Portuguese, Chinese Language and Culture, International Politics, Law, Tourism Management, Journalism, Marketing, Finance Management, Finance and International Economics and Trade. The specialties of English, Japanese, Russian, Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Enterprise Management, International Business, Tourism Management offer postgraduate programs. Currently the university has an enrollment of more than 10000 Chinese and 900 plus international students including postgraduate, undergraduate and language students.