北京体育大学介绍(英文)

BSU Overview

Beijing Sport University (BSU), directly under the General Administration of Sport of China, is one of the key universities in China and also a “211” Project University, a national project initiated in 1995 by the Ministry of Education with the aim of cultivating 100 key colleges for the 21st century. It is the only university that has the Category I discipline of sport science, which is one of the national key disciplines, and also the only sport university selected into the “111 Overseas Intellectual Resource Introduction Program”. Having an outstanding tradition of conscientious teaching and learning, BSU enjoys a high reputation both at home and abroad.

BSU was founded in 1953 as the Central Institute of Physical Education, and was renamed the Beijing Institute of Physical Education in 1956 then Beijing Sport University in 1993. Situated on the No. 48, Xinxi Road, Haidian District of Beijing, BSU covers a total area of around 1,400 acres, with a total construction area of approximately 600 thousand square meters.

BSU consists of eight schools and five departments: Graduate School, Physical Education School, Sport Coaching School, Wushu School, Sport Management School, Sport Science School, Continuing Education School, International Education School, Sport Journalism & Communication Department, Foreign Languages Department, Sport and Arts Department, Sport Rehabilitation Department, and Community Sport Department. It has two top-level sport schools affiliated with it: the Sport High School and Secondary Technical School for Sport, plus three centers and two sections: Modern Education Technology Center, Sport Science Research Center, Teaching Laboratory Center, Teaching and Research Section for Ideological and Political Theory, and the Periodical Section (Journal of Beijing Sport University). In addition, the Training Center of General Administration of Sport of China, the Coach Academy of General Administration of Sport of China, and the Center for Sport Ethics and Anti-Corruption Studies of China are also located on campus.

The University is home to four national key academic disciplines, fourteen other key majors, and five key laboratories at the provincial and ministerial level, one national researching and teaching demonstration center, two Beijing higher education researching and teaching demonstration centers, and one key research center for sport sociology and humanities and a Beijing higher education engineering research center at the provincial and ministerial level. BSU also hosts one post-doctoral program, one Category I discipline PhD program of Sport Science, four Category I discipline masters programs, one Category II discipline masters program, professional masters programs of sports science and higher education teaching programs. The University offers fourteen undergraduate programs in the areas of physical education, sport coaching, community sport, sport science, traditional Chinese sport, public affairs management, sport and industry management, journalism, advertisement, applied psychology, English, performance, dance performance, sport rehabilitation and leisure sport, among which three are selected as state-level characteristic programs, and four as Beijing characteristic programs.