Xichang College is located in Xichang City---- a world famous satellite city, which is rich in natural resources and characterized by its spring-like climate all the year round, about 500km away from Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province, P. R. China. Xichang College has large, beautiful campuses. The garden-like campuses cover an area of 1851mu (about 123 hectares). It is not only beautiful with green hills, clean rivers and luxuriant vegetation, but also equipped with advanced teaching facilitates, with instruments valued ￥84,720,000, and 1,768,200 books stored in the library, lecture halls equipped with 3,277 computers, and multi-media audio-lingual rooms offering 14,790seats, the building area taking up some 340,000㎡. There are now over 1,000 faculties, including 255 professors and associate professors, 201doctors and postgraduates and 8 foreign teachers. The student dorm has an access of telephone, Internet and TV. The studying and living facilities are all ready on the campuses.

Xichang College consists of 18 departments offering 37 4-year and 21 3-year specialties. The college puts stress on such special fields as agriculture, engineering and teacher training without neglecting adult further education and professional education. The college enrolls students from Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Guizhou, Shanxi, Hubei and so on. Presently, there are over 12,000 full-time students. Besides, adult and self-taught students amount to 9,857. The college is in the course of education reform, carrying out “credit system,” “double-teacher system,” “tutorial system,” and constructing “3-level teaching and practice style” as well as “personnel fostering style by combining production, study and research together.” The college has already set up quality supervision and evaluation system to improve the effects of teaching.

As a large, dynamic and diverse university of the 21st century, Xichang College offers a wide range of programs, exchange or visiting student programs, and flexible Chinese Language Training and Yi Language (language used by Yi nationality) programs at different levels are also available for international students.

Xichang College is the right choice to start a successful career. Your time at Xichang College will be an exciting, rewarding, and memorable life experience.

Admission Brochure for International Students

Programs for International Students

International students have the following options at Xichang College:

1. Visiting student status (non-degree granting) for one or two years;
    
2. Short-term Chinese studies programs or Yi language courses.

Visiting student

1. Application prerequisites: a personal resume, highest degree certificate, official academic transcripts, certificate of Chinese Proficiency level, a photocopy of passport. To ensure the quality of teaching, Chinese proficiency examination for visiting student will be held after enrollment. Having passed the examination, the student can begin his/her specialized studying, If not, he/she should make up Chinese studying, and then pass the examination organized by Xichang College.
    
2. Enrollment Specialties and Tuition (per year/ per person)

Short-term Programs

• Short-term Chinese Studies Programs or Yi language courses
   
• Spring semester (from March to July)
   
• Fall Semester (from September to January)

Tuition:

• Application fee: RMB400.00 for each member
   
• Tuitions: (including the expenses of picking-up and driving to the airport, expenses of the first-week orientation guide)
  Two-week course RMB 1,900
  Three-week course RMB 2,400
  Four-week course RMB 3,000
  Six-week course RMB 4,500
  Eight-week course RMB 5,300

Accommodations:

Student Dorm: RMB10.00 per day, with TV, telephone, and bathroom;
Apartment: RMB800.00 per month, with two bedrooms, one study room, one living room, kitchen, bathroom, TV, telephone, Internet access, Fridge. The apartment buildings have 24-hour security.

Teaching Arrangements:

• A. Class hours: 8 to 12 a.m., 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 16-20 hours per week.
   
• B. Chinese language teaching:
  Required courses: Chinese reading, spoken Chinese, Pronunciation, Listening and Writing, etc.
  Selective courses: Chinese folk-customs, translation, newspaper reading, classical Chinese, and Chinese Gongfu, and selected readings of contemporary literature, and etc., putting focus on the ability to use Chinese in real communications.
   
• C. Yi language teaching:
  Required courses: Basic Yi Language, Spoken Yi Language, Pronunciation, Listening and Writing, etc.
  Selective courses: Chinese Folk-customs, Yi’s Culture and Arts, classical Chinese, etc.
   

The exchange programmes with foreign universities or colleges.

Our college puts forward some programmes which we are interested in as follows:

1. Joint programmes. We can exchange students (for example, the four-year students may study the first year in Xichang college the following 2 years in USA and the last year in China).
    
2. Facilitate faculty exchanges.
    
3. Visiting experts exchange programme.
    
4. Joint research projects.

Download

• Physical Examination Record for Foreigner
• Application Form For International Students
• The Information for Foreign Teachers