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With its location on a 70 hectare site in the northwestern part of
Beijing’s’ Haidian district, (near the Summer Palace) Beijing Sport
University was founded in 1953 and has become the premier sport
education institution in China. Over the years the university has
helped mould some of Chinas’ greatest athletes and coaches. Those who
are keen on Chinese martial arts will find this and ideal location to
hone their skills and learn many new ones under the tutelage of some of
China’ top masters, these can be taken in conjunction with Chinese
language courses.
The University is one of the major education establishments in China.
Its aim is to train highly qualified education teachers, coaches, sport
science researchers and other physical education personnel. Students
and other physical education personnel enjoy the services given by
their respective departments. They include the department of Human
Kinesiology and Science, Sports Administration, Wushu, Sports Training,
Physical Education, Science Research, Correspondence, Section and the
Graduate Studies. The University has its own publishing house. The
facilities for training, teaching and science research are abundantly
equipped including a sports information center, scientific research and
audio-visual education center. Besides there are 15 indoor training
halls and 68 out door courts and fields.
There are 24
teaching and research sections in the university. There are 144
lecturers, around 200 professors and associate professors in the
university. The faculties are qualified and experienced with academic
level. The university has been authorized to award the Master's Degree
on most of the subjects and Doctor's Degree on some subjects. Science
its establishment, the university has turned out more than 20000
physical education personnel, many of which have become the backbone of
sports of China. Quite a few of them have set national and Asian
including world records.
The university attaches great
importance to international academic exchange programs. At present it
has an exchange program with 14 universities in the United States,
Canada, Germany, Japan, Australia, Russia, Korea, Bulgaria, and Poland.
Over 500 long term foreign students have successfully graduated from
this university not including 2000 more who come here for academic
exchanges for short term advanced studies every year.
The
campus of our University is quiet, clean and beautiful. There is 1
dormitory building for foreign students to live. There are altogether
145 ordinary rooms and 3 standard rooms. There is a TV set, an air
condition, a telephone, a desk and bedding, bathroom in each room.
There is a public kitchen and a laundry in each floor.
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