Sichuan International Studies University (SISU) is a full time regular undergraduate university run by the State. Located in Shapingba District, Chongqing, the fourth largest city in China, it aims to cultivate high quality foreign language professionals and professionals in foreign-related fields.It is the most important research center for foreign languages and cultures, foreign trade and business,and international relations in Southwest China. One of SISU’s most acclaimed features is its beautiful campus at the foot of Gele Mountain by the Jialing River. Its avenues and streets are lined with evergreen trees, so that its campus imperceptibly blends in with tree-covered rolling hills above it. Its facilities have been designed to complement the natural beauty of itsserene environment, and it is in many respects an ecological miniature of the mountainous city where it issituated. Making full use of its advantages in foreign language education, SISU develops related disciplines, such as literature, economics, management, law, pedagogy, philosophy and the liberal arts. It offers undergraduate degrees in 36 programs, master’s degrees in 26 different degree programs, one professional degree, and doctor’s degrees in foreign language education. At present the university has 23 academic departments and subordinate colleges,two independent colleges,two affiliated high schools and one international school. It offers 11 foreign language courses while teaching about 25 other 4-year programs. It is engaged in education of different levels and in different forms, embracing post-graduate education, undergraduate education, international student education, continuing education and intensified language training courses. It has five‘A-class key disciplines’at the provincial level,four‘Priority Programs’at the state level and eight‘Priority Programs’of Chongqing Municipality. Inter-college exchanges have been established between SISU and about 80 universities around the world.Extensive cooperation and exchanges have been going on between SISU and other Chinese or foreign colleges in the training of teachers and the education of teachers and the education of undergraduates and postgraduates. The University is, de facto, the only Chinese university officially recognized by Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF). In cooperation with education institutions of other countries, SISU has set up some foreign language centers on its campus, such as Alliance françaisede Chongqing, the Goethe Language Center, the Russian Language Center, the Cervantes Institute,and the South Korean Center, and it has established Confucius Institutes at Lome University of Togo and Nizhniy Novgorod Language University of Russia. Cooperating with the University of Newcastle, Australia, SISU is now offering an‘International dual-degree’joint program inBusiness English. Show less