Introduction to the School of Foreign Studies 

The School of Foreign Studies at Nanjing Forestry University has a long history. Its foreign language teaching began in 1952 and is one of the earliest disciplines established by the university. It officially became an independent institution in October 2008. The college has five departments including the English Department, Japanese Department, University Foreign Language Teaching Department 1, University Foreign Language Teaching Department 2, and Graduate Public English Teaching Department, as well as the MTI Education Center. It also has experimental and teaching research institutions such as the Language Comprehensive Experimental Training Center, Smart Foreign Language Teaching Research Center, Ecological Literature and Civilization Exchange and Mutual Learning Research Center, and Translation and International Communication Research Center. We have one authorized master's degree program in translation and offer two undergraduate majors in English and Japanese. There are approximately 800 students enrolled in various majors. Among them, the English major is a national first-class undergraduate major construction point. The college has various language laboratories such as digital network language laboratory, simultaneous interpretation laboratory, automatic high-definition recording language room, Japanese cultural scene experience room, and IELTS computer-based test center.

The college currently has 91 faculty members (82 full-time teachers), including 8 professors, 25 associate professors (associate researchers), 19 master's supervisors, and 29 teachers with doctoral degrees. We have one leading figure in the "Green and Blue Project" discipline in Jiangsu Province, four outstanding young backbone teachers in the "Green and Blue Project", and one target of the "333 High level Talent Training Project". Four foreign teachers are hired year-round, five part-time professors are hired, and 52 teachers have overseas study or further education experience. At present, a teaching team with reasonable professional titles, educational backgrounds, ages, and academic backgrounds, as well as an academic team led by professors with clear research directions, have been formed. The college collective has successively won honors such as the National "Women's Civilization Post", Jiangsu Province's "March 8th" Red Flag Collective, Jiangsu Province's Education and Science System's "Worker Pioneer" and "May 1st Women's Model Post".

The college undertakes the foreign language teaching tasks of more than 19700 undergraduate and graduate students in the whole school. In 2011, it was selected as a demonstration site for the reform of university English teaching by the Ministry of Education. The "College English Teaching Reform Practice" won the first prize for higher education teaching achievements in Jiangsu Province, and the "College English" course was rated as a high-quality course in higher education in Jiangsu Province. It has taken the lead in building a "one school, multiple programs" university English teaching system and is at the forefront of university English teaching reform in China. College English (3) and College English (4) have been approved as the second batch of national first-class undergraduate courses.

The quality of education for English and Japanese majors continues to improve, promoting the transformation of the "foreign language+rule of law" training model. A rule of law module has been added to the talent training program, and a "foreign-related rule of law" micro major has been established to meet the needs of compound and personalized education. The "Teaching Reform Practice for Senior English Majors" won the second prize for teaching achievements in higher education in Jiangsu Province; The scores of the English and Japanese majors in the CET-4 and CET-8 exams are leading among similar universities in China. Since 2018, the college has established a national college English competition guidance team, guiding students to win the first prize in the country for eight consecutive years.

The college has deeply cultivated its disciplinary characteristics around the two major themes of "ecological civilization" and "rule of law construction", and its research and academic influence as well as social contribution have significantly increased. In the field of ecological literature research, the consecutive hosting of the "Frontier Research on Foreign Ecological Literature" high-level forum has become a national brand academic activity that gathers top scholars in China; In terms of serving local rule of law construction, leveraging the advantages of foreign language disciplines, undertaking multiple provincial-level important scientific research projects, and providing key technical support for the standardization and internationalization of legislative translation in Jiangsu. In the past five years, the faculty of the college have published 43 authoritative journal articles at home and abroad (including 25 CSSCI and 8 SSCI), undertaken 4 national level projects and 7 provincial and ministerial level projects, published 5 monographs and 7 translated works, and steadily enhanced their scientific research capabilities.

The college focuses on cultivating students' practical abilities and has established student internships and training cooperation relationships with well-known enterprises such as MaMa Translation, Jiangsu Shunyu Information Technology Co., Ltd., and Truth Seeking Yilin Publishing Company. Graduates have high comprehensive quality and strong employment competitiveness, and are widely recognized by society and employers. We have signed cooperation agreements with multiple universities in the United States, Japan, Australia, and other countries to provide students with various opportunities for studying abroad through short-term visits, one-year exchange programs, and 3+1 programs. In recent years, the college's domestic and international enrollment rate has exceeded 40%, with students studying at renowned universities such as Harvard University, University of Edinburgh, Waseda University, University of Hong Kong, Nanjing University, and Beijing Foreign Studies University.

The college has student organizations and clubs such as the Student Union, Japanese Club, Youth Volunteer Association, English Debate Association, etc., which carry out rich and colorful campus cultural activities, create a strong atmosphere for foreign language learning, and strive to shape the brand image of "Vibrant Foreign School".

In the new era and new journey, the School of Foreign Languages fully implements the Party's education policy, implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and talents, focuses on the construction of the school's national "Double First Class" and Jiangsu's high-level university, with the goal of cultivating compound applied foreign language talents with "solid foundation, broad caliber, and strong ability". It continues to make progress in talent cultivation, scientific research, social services, cultural inheritance and innovation, international exchange and cooperation, and strives to build a distinctive and well-known high-level foreign language college in China, contributing solid strength to the high-quality development of the school and the cultivation of national foreign language talents.

Data as of March 2026