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About University Of International Relations
Founded in 1949, and administered by the Ministry of Education, the University of international Relations is recognized as one of China’s key national universities. Situated in Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park in the Haidian District of
Beijing, to the east of the Summer Palace and west of Yuanmingyuan Park, UIR occupies a site with many world-class universities nearby. Blessed with an unparalleled geographical location and boasting a superb teaching and research environment, the UIR has produced many outstanding graduates.
With its motto of “loyal, diligent, practical, and creative,” the core mission of the university is to serve the nation by cultivating superior talents in the fields of international relations and foreign languages. UIR’s students develop an international outlook, strong research abilities in international affairs, and a profoundly humanistic perspective. As a result, UIR’s graduates leave the university with the potential to provide creative leadership in different areas of society. After more than 60 years’ development, now UIR has become a multidisciplinary university famous for its research and teaching focus on foreign language and international issues.
The university’s academic units include the departments of International Politics, International Economics, Culture and Communication, Law, Public Management, and Physical and Aesthetic Education as well as the schools of Information Technology and Foreign Studies.
The undergraduate and graduate curriculums offer various majors including the following: international politics (both theory and diplomatic practice), international relations, the Chinese and foreign political systems, international law, international affairs management, public diplomacy and cultural communication, international economics, political economics, public procurement, English literature, French literature, Japanese literature, translatology, Chinese as an international language, information security, intelligent information processing, communication and information systems, and a number of other educational programs. All those involve five categories of economics, law, literature, management, engineering and 30 areas of study.
In addition, the graduate curriculum includes an international cooperative Master’s training program, “China and International Relations” (CIR), offered jointly by UIR and Denmark’s Aalborg University. Graduates from this program obtain Master’s degree certificates from both universities.
The university also offers a joint doctoral program for International Relations majors.
Adhering to its “student-centered” mission, UIR is known for its intensive-learning environment, with small classes and an experienced and dedicated teaching staff.
The UIR has developed long-term cooperative relationships with a dozen universities and other academic institutions around the world, including Aalborg University, Université de Toulouse 1 Capitole, Sciences Politiques Toulouse, Hiroshima University, Marietta College and Galilee International Management Institute.
Since 2013 UIR has been offering summer semesters for international education. Foreign experts and professors from a dozen countries and regions are invited to teach academic and proactive courses every summer. To broaden its students horizons, the UIR also offers overseas study and international training projects. As well, a number of students are chosen to study in the United States and Europe each summer. Moreover, outstanding graduates are awarded graduation trips to neighboring countries.
UIR houses various research institutions, including the Research Center for International Strategy and Security Studies, the Research Center on China and International Relations, and the Institute of Public market and Government Procurement. UIR also publishes several academic journals, including the Chinese and English versions of International Security Studies.
UIR undertakes research on many national and provincial topics, and is establishing a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary “Great UIR” system of research featuring cross-disciplinary studies of national security and international relations.
UIR occupies 136,800 square meters, and its total floorage is 118,700 square meters. The university also has an advanced networking system and an electronic teaching system like satellite TV equipped with modern multi-media classrooms and satellite television. Further, the UIR library has a broad and deep collection of books.
The beautiful UIR campus has student dormitories with complete facilities and as well as a fully equipped gymnasium and a quarter-mile outside running track. The ratio of teaching facilities and resources per student is among the top nationwide.
Aiming both to serve the national interest and to contribute to human progress and a harmonious world system, UIR is continually striving to become a superior teaching and research institution in the fields of foreign languages and international affairs.
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Founded in 1949 under the loving care of Premier Zhou Enlai, University of International Relations (UIIS) is an institution of higher learning with a rich tradition. Over the years, party and state leaders have attached great importance to and cared about the work of running schools. The older generation of proletarian revolutionaries Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Deng Yingchao and other comrades have visited the school many times, and teachers and students talk kindly, give great care. Vice Premier Chen Yi inscribed the name of the school. Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun, Ye Jianying and other central leaders also gave important instructions to the construction and development of our school in different historical periods.
The university once offered training courses for the first batch of “generals and ambassadors” of new China. In the 1950s, the first teaching method focusing on foreign contemporary language learning; In 1964, it was listed as a national key university. In 1981, THE university became one of the first units authorized to confer master’s degrees in China. In 1983, it took the lead in transforming from a single foreign language college to a multi-disciplinary one.
University of International Relations is a national key university of the same age as the Republic of China and enjoys a high reputation both at home and abroad. The university takes serving national development and social needs as the core, adheres to the socialist educational direction, adheres to the educational philosophy of “high requirements, specialization and excellence”, and constantly innovates the talent training mode of thick foundation and broad caliber. To cultivate outstanding interdisciplinary talents with international vision, humanistic spirit and innovative ability, and to build a high-level university with outstanding characteristics in the field of international relations and national security. The university promotes the coordinated development of undergraduate and graduate education. Over the years, it has trained and transported a large number of outstanding talents for government departments, scientific research institutes, enterprises and institutions, and media. Many graduates have grown into renowned experts, scholars and business backbone at home and abroad.
At present, the university is equipped with the institute of national security, economic and financial institute, institute for foreign language school, law school, network security and so on five college, undergraduate education with the international politics, international economy and trade, English, Japanese, French, security, data communications, law, cyberspace science and big data technology, administrative management, and other 10 major. From 2019 to 2020, five majors, including International Politics, Law, International Economics and Trade, English and French, were selected as national first-class undergraduate program construction sites, and cyberspace Security was selected as
Beijing first-class undergraduate program construction sites. The national Security Discipline of the Institute of International Relations has been selected as one of the advanced And Advanced Disciplines construction projects of Beijing. In recent years, the school actively promote the teaching the depth of the fusion of information technology and education, with
tsinghua university, Beijing university, Beijing foreign studies university and other colleges and universities to carry out the cooperative education cooperation projects, opened a finance, data science, innovation, entrepreneurship and business education, international organizations and global governance, such as Arabic, Korean minor specialty or micro.
The university has the right to conduct education for foreign students, and has established cooperative relations with universities from the United States, Japan, France, Denmark, Israel and other countries to carry out educational cooperation projects and academic exchanges. The school has three semesters in autumn, spring and summer. International teachers are invited to teach in summer. The university encourages students to participate in international exchanges and invests special funds to support academic practice activities. The university implements the credit system and the tutorial system, actively carries out education and teaching reform, and provides students with a curriculum system that combines professional theory with professional practice and supports both major and minor subjects, constantly improving students’ independent learning ability and effectiveness. School long-term adhere to small class teaching, adhere to fine training.
University of International Relations has an excellent teaching team with solid professional foundation and rich teaching experience, including experts and scholars with profound academic attainments in the field of international issues, famous teachers or excellent teaching teams with outstanding achievements in teaching positions, who have won national and Beijing municipal awards. The academic atmosphere of the school is open and active, and well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad have been invited to teach in the school for a long time.
