Heilongjiang University is located in Harbin, a famous city with beautiful
scenery in northeast China. Harbin is also known as the “Moscow of the East” and
the “Paris of the Orient”. Its landscape is very beautiful and its architecture
has special features. It is cool in summer, and skiing and skating are available
in winter. It is especially famous worldwide for the beautiful and wonderful art
on display at the ice lantern festival. Therefore, Harbin can be described as an
“International Metropolis”. Harbin lies within an area of China where the most
standard form of Mandarin (“Putonghua”) is spoken. It is an ideal place to learn
Mandarin Chinese.
Heilongjiang University is a key comprehensive university offering a wide
range of disciplines including liberal arts, sciences, foreign languages,
engineering, management etc. The university covers an area of 1, 910,000 square
meters and has a total building area of nearly 1,160,000 square meters. The
total enrollment of full time students comes to over 35,000. There are about
5,000 students involved in masters of doctorate courses and there are a further
2000 international students every year. There are a total of 10 faculties’
disciplines: Philosophy, Economics, Law, Education, Liberal Art, History,
Science, Engineering, Agriculture and Management covering 79 specialties. The
university has the right to confer bachelor, master and doctor degrees.
Since 1981 near 10000 international students have studied at Heilongjiang
University. They have come from Japan, South Korea, Russia, America, Great
Britain, Germany and many other countries. Heilongjiang University is the only
center for the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language in Heilongjiang
Province. Heilongjiang University is an appointed institution for conducting HSK
Chinese Proficiency Examinations. It is also able to admit international
students under the Chinese government scholarship program approved by the
Education Department.
Popular Programs: Chinese Language, International Economy and Trade, English,
Russian, German, French, Spanish, Electronic Information Engineering,
Communication Engineering, Automation, Computer Science and Technology, Law,
Tourism Management, History, Electronic Commerce, Painting, Artistic Design,
Philosophy, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Manchu Language and History
and Culture, etc. The two programs of Chinese and International Economy and
Trade can accept international students who have no basis in the Chinese
language. The institute provides some facilities only used by international
students, for example, classrooms, audio-visual classrooms, computer rooms,
reference rooms, kitchen rooms, a dining hall, a gymnasium and dormitories. Each
dormitory is equipped with a bathroom, a refrigerator, a telephone, a high-speed
internet line, a television etc. During non-study time, the institute schedules
visits to surrounding areas of interest and also recreational activities that
not only build up students’ health, but also complement their studies and
promote friendships.