About International College

The International College of Beijing Forestry University was established in March 2002 andhas restarted its independent operations on December 6, 2020.The international College is under the leadership of the university’s Party Committee. Its main responsibilities are but not limited to: to enroll, train and manage international students in China. It is in charge of introducing international high-quality educational resources, as well as organize and promote international exchanges and cooperation.

The recruitment and the training of international students is an important measure for our University in order to develop international education. The enrolment of international students in our University can be traced back to the beginning of the University in 1952, and by then, the students were mainly from the Soviet Union, North Korea, and Vietnam. It was one of the first colleges in New China to accept international students. Currently, our University has cultivated more than 5,000 international students of various categories and has become an institution that can accept students sponsored by the Chinese government scholarship, the foreign aid academic program scholarship of the Ministry of Commerce, the Beijing government scholarship, the Beijing “Belt and Road” special scholarship, and the Beijing “Belt and Road” national talent training Base and Asia-Pacific Forest Network Scholarship Program. So far, the school has established 13 “first-class” postgraduate-level English programs and 58 courses in English for international students. Among them, the "Forestry Economic Management" course has been awarded the "English-taught branded course in China" by the Ministry of education hence becoming the only university among forestry colleges and universities that has such branded courses. The master of Forestry Economics Management program has successfully passed the evaluation by the international expert's group of "Asia Pacific Forest Networks" organization. With the gradual increase in the attractiveness of subjects for international students and the continuous improvement in the quality of training and education, the influence of "Study in Beilin" has continued to increase. At present, the University has more than 300 international students from more than 70 countries, of which the proportion of academic programs students accounts for more than 90%.

In addition to recruiting and training international students, the university has introduced international high-quality education resources, continuously explored new talent training models, and actively established Sino foreign cooperative education projects at different levels. The university has successively established cooperation with the Michigan State University in the United stated in the programs of Wood Science and Engineering, Biotechnology majors, the Landscape Architecture in cooperation with Chiba University in Japan, and the summer school through the cooperation with the University of British Columbia as well as other personnel training modes at different levels. All these programs have improved the international education level of our University.

In the future, under the leadership of the school Party Committee, the International College will dynamically promote the healthy and sustainable development of international education, enhance the high-level international education capability, introduce foreign high-quality education resources, promote the international education exchange and cooperation mode, so as to make of the Beijing Forestry University international education level synchronously grow with the international talent training, and cultivate Chinese talents and foreign students with international vision and cross-cultural international competence.

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