Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, called Guangwai for short, located in Guangzhou, is a provincial key university with distinctive international characteristics. Selected into the national "20 1 1 plan" and the national public postgraduate plan for building a high-level university.
The school's predecessor was Guangzhou Foreign Studies Institute and Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Trade. Guangzhou Foreign Studies University was founded in1October1964165438+officially enrolled in July 1965. It is one of the three famous foreign language universities directly under the Ministry of Education. Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Trade was established in 1980 and 65438+February, and it is an institution directly under the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (now the Ministry of Commerce).
198 1 year, the school obtained the right to grant master's degrees; 1986, the school was granted the right to confer doctoral degrees. 1In May, 1995, the Guangdong Provincial People's Government merged the two universities to form Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
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Guangdong University of Foreign Studies is a key university with distinctive international characteristics in Guangdong Province, and it is an important base for international talent training and foreign language culture, foreign trade and international strategy research in South China. At present, there are full-time undergraduates 19704, 3370 doctoral and master students, and more than 9000 adult undergraduates, advanced students and international students 19000.
The school is located in Guangzhou, a famous historical and cultural city in China and the economic center of South China. It has three campuses with a total area of 2,292 mu, of which the North Campus is located at the northern foot of Baiyun Mountain in Guangzhou, covering an area of 939 mu. The South Campus is located in Guangzhou University Town, covering an area of 1095 mu; Da Lang Campus is located in Da Lang, covering an area of 258 mu. Campus tree-lined, small bridges flowing water, birds and flowers, elegant environment.
The school has formed a discipline pattern of "two-wheel drive" between foreign language disciplines and non-foreign language disciplines, and coordinated and sustainable development of multiple disciplines and languages. There are 25 teaching units, 1 independent college (South China Business School). There are 72 undergraduate majors, which belong to eight disciplines: literature, economics, management, law, engineering, science, teaching and art.
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