Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) is a university located in Beijing, China. It is one of China's foremost foreign language teaching universities.The university's campus occupies 304,553 square meters, with a student dormitory area of 40,000 m² and a library of 9997 m², and is divided in two by Beijing's Third Ring Road. Other facilities on campus include an audiovisual center, a gymnasium, dining halls, and tennis courts. The university is popularly known as Běiwài in Mandarin and BFSU in English.As a renowned teaching university, BFSU was affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from its establishment in 1941 to the early 1980s and was classified a key university under the Ministry of Education.The wide ranging studies at BFSU are provided by over 600 faculty members, in addition to approximately 120 international experts and teachers invited from more than 20 countries each year.BFSU qualified for the first round of the competition in its efforts to enter Project 211, a university development programme launched by the Ministry of Education in 1996.

Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) is a globalized and top-notch university in People's Republic of China with an established reputation for foreign language education and international studies. Established in December 1949, SISU is known for being one of the earliest institutions where China’s higher education in foreign languages took shape. As a member of Project 211, it has successfully developed a diverse and distinctive mix of disciplines with language and literature as its pillar. Over the past 60-plus years, SISU has grown from a mono-disciplinary Russian school into a multi-disciplinary foreign language institute and now is becoming a highly prestigious international university.

Beijing International Studies University was founded on October 24, 1964. The founding of the university was suggested by the former Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, who, after a visit to a number of countries overseas, realized that China was in need of more college graduates in foreign studies to facilitate its communication and improve its relations with foreign countries. According to the official website of BISU, the university aims to develop into a teaching oriented university with foreign studies as its major focus and tourism management as a key research area, combining scholarly and/or professional disciplines of literature, management, economics, and law studies. In 2007, BISU offers 20 degree programs on the undergraduate level (please refer to details below) and 12 on the postgraduate level (English, Japanese, German, French, Arabic, Tourism Management, Foreign Literature and Applied Linguistics, Corporate Management, International Trade, Aesthetics, Comparation Literature and World Literature). It also offers a program in Chinese Literature and Culture for international students.

Xi’an International Studies University (XISU) is located in the city of Xi'an, China's ancient capital which is famous for the Terra Cotta Warriors. The university now has two campuses, the north campus(old campus), and the south campus(in Xi'An University City). The university was founded in 1952 in Xi'an, Shaanxi through the merger of the Russian Department of Northwest University, the Russian Department of Lanzhou University, and the Russian training class of the Chinese Communist Party into the Northwest Russian Academy. Back then, it was one of the four earliest language schools in the People's Republic of China（the other three located in Beijing, Shanghai and Sichuan, and the only one that taught most major foreign languages in Northwest China.

Dalian University of Foreign Languages (DLUFL) is a provincial university in Dalian, Liaoning, China. It is now one of the top 8 foreign languages universities in China, and the only fully developed foreign languages institute in Northeast China. DLUFL now provides various bachelor degree and master degree programs. It aims at becoming an influential comprehensive foreign studies university of China in the near future. With the help of the late Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, DLUFL was originally founded in 1964 to teach Japanese language, and in the 1970s, the English school and the Russian school were established. Other language departments were then built to meet the needs of Economic reform in China, which began in 1978. In the mid-1980s, the university was authorized by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China to give postgraduate courses.

Beijing Language and Culture University is (BLCU) colloquially known in Chinese as yuyan xueyuan, has the main aim of teaching the Chinese language and culture to foreign students. However, it also takes Chinese students specializing in foreign languages and other relevant subjects of humanities and social sciences, and trains teachers of Chinese as a foreign language. It used to be the only institute of this kind in China. After the push for massification of higher education starting in the 90's, nowadays many other universities in almost every major city in China have a similar offer. Thus bachelor, master or post-doc degrees in "Teaching Chinese to Foreigners", as well as bachelor and master degrees in several foreign languages are no longer only to be found at BLCU. Beijing Language and Culture University is often called "Little United Nations" in China because of its very large amount of international students from various countries.

Tianjin Foreign Studies University is a university in Tianjin, China under the municipal government. The institution, one of the earliest eight of its kind in China, specializes in foreign languages and cultures studies. Language concentrations include Portuguese, English, Japanese, German, French, Russian, Korean, Spanish, Swahili and Arabic. The institution also offers classes in Chinese language and culture for foreign exchange students from other countries.The university is located at 117 Machang Road, on the northern extreme of Hexi District, bordering Heping District.

Sichuan International Studies University (SISU) is a public university located in Chongqing, China. It is colloquially known in Chinese as Chuan Wai. Originally founded as Russian Training School of Southwest Military University of PLA in May 1950, it is the only university specialized in foreign language studies in the Southwest region of China. Due to its close relationship with Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is one of the few direct recruitment spots of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of People's Republic of China. The total student body amounts to 11,000, including foreign students and short-term students. Sichuan International Studies University is an important base for foreign language education and scientific research and information consultancy center in the southwest as well. Over the past six decades, plenty of foreign language teaching and research talents have gathered here in the university, we have accumulated rich experience in foreign language teaching, made remarkable achievements in foreign language research, built advanced philosophy for foreign language teaching, created good environment for foreign language learning, and deposited profound cultural heritage on the campus.