Jilin International Studies University (JISU), founded in 1995, is a key university in Jilin Province. JISU is located close to the most beautiful tourist attraction of Changchun City, the Jingyuetan Lake. The University covers an area of 703,000 square meters and a building area of 310,000 square meters. The surrounding mountains integrate with an on-campus river and the modern Chinese architecture features with stylish Western tradition, highlighting the unity of the environment and the humanities and forming a well-established "garden-style" campus. JISU currently houses over 10,000 students, including full-time undergraduates, postgraduates and overseas students. There are over 800 staff members, including 50 foreign teachers from the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, France, Japan, Germany, Spain, Korea, Russia, Italy, Portugal, Egypt, etc.
JISU boasts 12 teaching units, namely School of Translation and Interpreting, School of English, School of Oriental Languages, School of Western Languages School of Central-Eastern European Languages, School of International Economics and Trade, School of International Business Administration, School of Chinese Language and Literature, School of Education, School of International Exchanges, School of General Education, School of Marxism, offering classes in 15 foreign languages (i.e. English, Japanese, German, French, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Mongolian, Indonesian, Persian, Polish and Czech). There are 36 undergraduate major of five disciplinary areas, Chinese, Economics, Management, Education and Art. There are 5 authorized units to confer master degrees, namely Translation, Education, Chinese International Education, International Business, and Accounting and one Accreditation Point for Master' Degrees in First-Class Disciplines Pedagogy, covering 20 professional fields in which MTI covers nine languages, including English, Japanese, Russian, Korean, German, French, Western Arabic and Italian,n.
The University has followed four cross-disciplinary training models:"Language Major", "Major+ language"," Bilingual Languages "and "Language Minor+ Language Major + Major". The University has national-level programs, an experimental unit for national reform, a National Practical Teaching Demo-center, a National University Students' Off-campus Practice Base and has won a National Teaching Achievement Award. The school boasts six Jilin Province brand majors, accounting for one-third of the total number of all majors, and 2 provincial-level key disciplines. We have 5 research platforms, including Collaborative Innovation Center, Think Tank of Institutions of Higher Education, Provincial Humanities and Social Sciences Research Base, 4 Provincial Talent Training Model Innovation Experimental Areas, 3 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 10 provincial outstanding teaching teams, 6 provincial famous teachers, 19 provincial top-quality courses, one Changbai Mountain Project Visiting Scholar and 31 excellent courses at the provincial level.
The University actively promotes internationalization, and has been cooperating with 150 universities and educational institutions in25countries and regions. The University has obtained admission qualifications to enroll international students on the Chinese Government Scholarship, Jilin Province Government Foreign Student Scholarship, and Confucius Institute Scholarship. In 2015, JISU and the New Jersey City University launched a joint education program through the Confucius Institute. The University also cooperates with the University of Applied Languages in Munich, Germany to implement joint education in German. Each year, more than 800 students are sent abroad for long-term and short-term language and cultural study and exchanges, and participate in the undergraduate duel-degree and postgraduate programs. In certain majors, the proportion of students studying abroad reaches 100%.At present, the University receives about 300 international students each year.