📖 About the university

Chengdu University of Foreign Studies is a private undergraduate university in Dujiangyan, near Chengdu in Sichuan Province, specialising in foreign languages and international studies. It was established in 2000 as the Chengdu Institute of Sichuan International Studies University, an independent college of that leading foreign-languages university. In October 2023 the Ministry of Education approved its conversion into an independently established private university under its current name. The university teaches sixteen foreign languages and offers around thirty-two language programmes, including Italian, Arabic, Czech, Hungarian, Malay and Vietnamese, several of which are unique to it among Sichuan's universities. It has twelve secondary colleges and enrols more than twenty thousand students, employing foreign teachers representing sixteen languages year-round. Its main campus lies in the scenic Mount Qingcheng area near the ancient Dujiangyan irrigation system, with a second campus in Yibin.

🔢 The university in numbers

🎯 Fields of study

🏛️ Colleges & schools

🌆 About Dujiangyan

Dujiangyan is a county-level city administered by Chengdu, home to the world's oldest still-functioning irrigation system, built around 256 BC by the engineer Li Bing to tame the Min River. This UNESCO World Heritage marvel, together with the neighbouring Taoist holy mountain of Qingcheng, forms a joint heritage site and remains an engineering wonder. The city is also a gateway to panda conservation bases. For an international student, Dujiangyan offers extraordinary history, cool green mountains, a relaxed teahouse culture and a short trip to Chengdu.

💰 Fees & costs

💡 General estimates for international students in China; they vary by major and university, and the official figure is always on the university website.

🛂 Visa requirements by nationality

These are the general steps for the China student visa (X1/X2); details vary by the Chinese embassy in your country.