History
CUC's history dates back to March 3, 1954, when the first training class for broadcasting professionals was held by the then Central Radio Administration. This then led to the founding of Beijing Broadcasting College in 1958. On September 7, 1959, CUC's precursor Beijing Broadcasting Institute (BBI) was established. During the ensuing four decades, BBI remained a relatively small college and only known among the circles of Chinese media professionals. On August 19, 2004, the State Council of the People's Republic of China approved the renaming of the institute to the Communication University of China. It has now developed into a comprehensive institute of higher learning with broadcasting, film production, journalism, drama, animation, advertising, newscasting, creative cultural industry, Communications engineering, foreign languages (especially minority language), management and media law education as its major academic disciplines.Academics
Overall academic situation
CUC upholds its ideology of offering courses that are centered on scientific based learning by emphasizing the application of a course and relevance to the particular discipline. As a result, an inter-relating and inter-influencing discipline system that covers journalism and communication, film and television arts, information science and technology, literature, engineering, management, economics, and law and science has been formed. There are currently six faculties that consist of one co-innovation center and five directly affiliated schools, which comprise two national key disciplines (journalism and radio and television arts). There is also one national key cultivation discipline (communication), three Beijing municipal key disciplines (journalism and communication, art theory, theater film and television), four Beijing municipal key subordinate disciplines (linguistics and applied linguistics, communications and information systems, electromagnetic field and microwave technology, animation), seven post-doctoral research centers, seven doctoral programs, 35 doctoral programs (subordinate disciplines), 18 master programs, 95 master programs (subordinate disciplines), 8 professional master categories, and 84 bachelor programs.Faculties and schools
Faculty of Journalism and Communication * Television School * School of Journalism * Institute of Communication Studies Faculty of Art * School of Theater, Film and Television * School of Animation and Digital Arts * School of Music and Recording Arts * Institute of Art Faculty of Science and Technology * School of Information and Communication Engineering * School of Computer and Cyber Sciences * School of Data Science and Media Intelligence Faculty of Literature and Social Science * School of Government and Public Affairs * School of Literature * School of International Studies Faculty of Advertising, Economics and Management * Advertising Institute * School of Economics and Management * School of Cultural Industries Management Communication Strategy of China Co-innovation Center * New Media Institute * Internet Information Research Institute * Neuroscience and Intelligent Media Institute Independent Schools and Departments * School of Marxism * International Communication University of China (ICUC) * School of Continuing Education * Computer and Network Center * Practical and Experimental Teaching Center (CUCTV)Confucius Institutes
Communication University of China has co-established three Confucius Institutes for providing Chinese language and cultural education for learners outside of China. * Belgrade Confucius Institute (in cooperation with University of Belgrade, Serbia) * Groningen Confucius Institute (in cooperation with University of Groningen, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, and the Municipality of Groningen.) * Confucius Institute at Federal University of Rio Grand Do Sul (in cooperation with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil)Modern foreign languages teaching
Communication University of China is one of the officially-sanctioned important base in China for teaching foreign languages and especially narrowly-used languages. So far, CUC has successively offered 32 Bachelor's programmes in modern foreign languages since its establishment. Some of programmes recruit students irregularly every few years according to admission plans sanctioned by the Ministry of Education. CUC is still the only university in China to offer Bachelor's programmes in Bengali language, Bengali, Tamil language, Tamil, Pashto and Esperanto. English (since 1958), Spanish (since 1959), French, Russian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (since 1960), Italian (since 1960), Hindi (since 1965), Bengali (since 1964), Nepali (since 1964), Assamese (since 1965), Urdu (since 1962), Tamil (since 1959), Sinhalese (since 1965), Pashto (since 1964), Persian (since 1988), Zulu (since 1965), Swahili (since 1960), Esperanto (since 1959), Turkish (since 1959), Swedish, Hausa (since 1965), Malay, Hebrew, Greek (since 1964), Hungarian, Dutch (since 1965), Laos (since 1965). There is a Center for Portuguese Studies (originally, ''Centro de Língua Portuguesa Dr. Stanley Ho'') under a Cooperation Protocol between CUC, Instituto Camões, Camões Institute (Portugal) and IPOR (Macau) since 2005.Rank
Communication University of China is widely regarded as one of the most competitive universities for admission in China. In September 2017, CUC was selected as one of 140 Double First Class University Plan universities approved by the Ministry of Education. In the fourth round of China University Subject Rankings (CUSR) by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2018, Communication University of China ranked first in mainland China with its two disciplinary areas evaluated as A+ disciplines, including "Journalism and Communication" and "Drama, Film and Television Studies" and ranked third with A− in "Art Theory", tenth with B+ in "Design", 19th with B in "Fine Arts" in China.Campus location
CUC's 116.88 hectare main campus is located in Dingfuzhuang, eastern part of Chaoyang District, Beijing, Chaoyang District, Beijing. It is just outside the Eastern 5th Ring Road, and is just along the Beijing-Tong County expressway. The campus is linked by the Communication University of China Station of Beijing subway Batong Line, Beijing Subway, Batong Line.Affiliations
* Communication University of China Press * Communication University of China, Nanjing Established in 2004, CUCN is an independent private university in the southern city of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. It is directly supervised by the board of directors, with CUC's former president as the honorary head of the board.Notable alumni
Communication University of China is known for fostering media administrators, producers, journalists and TV presenters in China. Some of its notable alumni include:Media administrators
* :zh:劉長樂, Liu Changle: Chairman of Phoenix Television, Phoenix Satellite Television based in Hong Kong. * :zh:王纪言, Wang Jiyan: VP of Phoenix TV Hong Kong and head of the Phoenix Chinese Channel. * :zh:杨洪新, Yang Hongxin: Director of Xinjiang TelevisionMedia personalities
*Luo Jing, news presenter from China Central Television *Cui Yongyuan, television host from China Central Television *Bi Fujian, television host from China Central Television *Chen Luyu, a Phoenix Television talk show host. *Li Yong (television host), Li Yong, television host from China Central Television *Bai Yansong, news presenter from China Central Television *Chai Jing, former journalist from China Central Television *Chen Luyu, host from Hong Kong's Phoenix Television *Zhang Haijie, news presenter from Singapore's MediaCorp Channel 8 *Chen Xiaonan, a Phoenix Television talk show host. *Li Xiang (host), Li Xiang, actress, television host and singer. *Alex Man, Hong Kong actor *Dong Zhen, singer-songwriter *Sandra Ma, television and movie actress *Zining, singer-songwriter, Rocket Girls 101's member *Li Yi (voice actor), Li Yi, narrator and voice actor. *Fu Yaning (singer), Fu Yaning, singer and actressReferences
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