Communication University of China


The Communication University of China is a leading public university in Beijing. It is one of the China's key universities of “Project 211”, directly administered by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. CUC developed from what used to be a training center for technicians of the Central Broadcasting Bureau that was founded in 1954. In April 1959, it was upgraded to the Beijing Broadcasting Institute approved by the State Council. In August 2004, BBI was renamed Communication University of China. CUC is located in the eastern part of Beijing near the ancient canal, which occupies 463,700 square meters of land and a total of 499,800 square meters of buildings.

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 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, 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.  There is also one national key cultivation discipline, three Beijing municipal key disciplines, four Beijing municipal key subordinate disciplines, seven post-doctoral research centers, seven doctoral programs, 35 doctoral programs, 18 master programs, 95 master programs, 8 professional master categories, and 84 bachelor programs.

Faculties and schools

Faculty of Journalism and Communication
Faculty of Art
Faculty of Science and Technology
Faculty of Literature and Law
Faculty of Advertising, Economics and Management
Communication Strategy of China Co-innovation Center
Faculty of Continuing Education
Independent Schools and Departments
Communication University of China has co-established three Confucius Institutes for providing Chinese language and cultural education for learners outside of China.
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, Tamil, Pashto and Esperanto.
English, Spanish, French, Russian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali, Assamese, Urdu, Tamil, Sinhalese, Pashto, Persian, Zulu, Swahili, Esperanto, Turkish, Swedish, Hausa, Malay, Hebrew, Greek, Hungarian, Dutch, Laos.

Rank

Communication University of China is widely regarded as one of most competitive universities for admission in China.
In September 2017, CUC was selected as one of 95 Double First Class Discipline University by the Ministry of Education, with Double First Class status in two broad subject areas, "Journalism and Communication" and "Drama, Film and Television Studies".
In the fourth round of China University Subject Rankings by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2018, Communication University of China ranked 1st in mainland China with its two disciplinary areas evaluated as A+ disciplines, including "Journalism and Communication" and "Drama, Film and Television Studies" and ranked 3rd with A- in "Art Theory", 10th 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. 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.

Affiliations

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