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The Central University for Nationalities The Central University for Nationalities (CUN) is one of China’s most famous comprehensive universities, and it is one of the 38 key universities receiving direct development support from the Chinese government. The Central University for Nationalities has a comprehensive set of university disciplines, and its ethnic characteristics are highly distinctive. Humanities is its main focus and ethnic studies is its defining specialty, with courses covering the liberal arts, science, engineering, medical science, management, education, finance and economics, politics and law, physical education, arts, etc. At present, CUN has 21 colleges and departments, 71 bachelor’s degree programs, 62 master’s degree programs, and 23 doctor’s degree programs. Its ethnology, Chinese ethnic minority language and literature, Chinese ethnic minority arts rank top one in China and well-known in the world. The Central University for Nationalities is one of the most well-known institutions in the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language in China. It is one of the first eight universities in China that enrolled international students and began teaching and researching Chinese as a foreign language. All of the majors are open to international students. Today, CUN has a number of 959 faculty and staff, including 192 professors, and 337 associate professors. At the Central University for Nationalities’, multiple cultures co-exist harmoniously. It not only has a high-quality, top-level faculty representing many ethnic backgrounds, but also 70% of its 15,000 full-time students is ethnic minorities. In a sense, CUN is a microcosm of the big family of Chinese ethnic groups, and it is the only university in Beijing where all of China’s 56 ethnic groups are represented in its faculty and student body. The multiple cultures of the 56 ethnic groups co-exist harmoniously here. Bachelor’s Degree (4 years) 1. Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (for inter