Beijing Language and Culture University

Program Highlights

Weekend host family visits and an added fifth week (for a total of 9 weeks) for conducting fieldwork research, the best essays for which are published by the Higher Education Prize. Single rooms.

Peer Reviews

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Language Levels

2nd Year through 5th Year

Term Offered

Summer: mid June - mid August

Deadlines

Consult the HBA admissions Web site for deadline dates for each term.

Additional Information

The Harvard-Beijing Academy is extremely competitive. Even very good students are routinely not admitted because of limited space. It is recommended that students apply to second and third choice programs or risk losing their Light Fellowship.

HBA accepts the Light Fellowship Language Evaluation as a substitute for a letter of recommendation. This relieves instructors of the burden of writing a separate letter. Moreover, the program actually finds greater value in our form than in a standard letter.

HBA Web Site

HBA Application

HBA Contact Information:

Professor Shengli Feng, Director

Chinese Language Program, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Room 25, 9 Kirkland Place

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA 02138

Attn: HBA

Phone: (617) 384-9222

Fax: (617) 495-2247 (attn: Harvard-Beijing Academy)

Email: HBA@fas.harvard.edu