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Founded
in 1903 and directly under the administration
of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Central
China Normal University (CCNU) is a national
key university which comprises 18 schools and
9 departments offering 53 Doctoral programs,
97 Master's degree programs and 53 Bachelor's
degree programs. As one of the prestigious higher
learning institutions in China, CCNU has 3 national
key disciplines, 5 national first-grade doctor's
degree disciplines,2 national level bases for
the research of humanities and social sciences
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its more than 4,000 teaching staff, there
are over 700 professors and associate professors.
The total students enrollment at present is
over 18,000. CCNU is one of earliest Chinese
universities admitting international students.
Ever since 1960s, entrusted and endorsed by
the Chinese Ministry of Education, the university
has been admitting international students
and also admitting international students
with the Chinese government scholarships as
well. All the disciplines can enrolls international
students for general study and for degree
pursuing. CCNU, at the same time, is also
among the first Education Bases for Chinese
Language and Culture entitled by the Overseas
Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council.
The Hubei Provincial Center for Teaching Chinese
to Foreigners is also affiliates to the university.
The
College of International Culture Exchange
(CICE) of CCNU is responsible for the teaching
and administration of international students.
CICE has a team of experienced professional
Chinese Language instructors, and is equipped
with modern teaching facilities and language
labs. All of the teachers are qualified with
Certificates of Teaching Chinese to Foreigners.
A considerable proportions of them have experiences
of teaching Chinese abroad. Professor Xing
Fuyi, a well-known linguist and Chairman of
the Chinese Society of Teaching Chinese to
Foreigners, leads the team.
The
college attaches utmost importance to the
quality of teaching, which is done in small-sized
classes of no more than 15 students carefully
organized according to their language proficiency.
Language learning tuition fee is $800 per
semester. Bachelor's programs of Chinese language
tuition fee is $1800 per academic year. One
to eight weeks Short-term Programs of Chinese
Language and Traditional Culture are regularly
run all year round. All the programs, long-term
or short-term, involve classroom instruction,
extra curriculum tutoring, cultural lectures,
recreation activities and sports, and field
work. To satisfy the special need of some
students, CICE also offers one on one language
instruction cause.
Located
in East Lake New & High-tech Development
Zone of the great metropolitan city of Wuhan,
the university enjoys the convenient public
transport facilities, and very pleasant environment.
International students can choose to live
in the dorms for them on campus, to stay in
the three-star campus hotel, to have a home-stay
on campus or to live outside the campus.
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our assistance to every international student
studying at CCNU in finding a suitable place
to live. The six dining rooms on campus provide
great varieties of delicious and inexpensive
food three times a day. On or around the campus
are many small restaurants, banks, post-offices,
free markets, phone booths, and internet bars.
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