Tsinghua University – Chinese Language Program

The Language Teaching Centre (语言教学中心) at Tsinghua University administers Chinese language instruction for the university's full international student population from its offices in Mingli Building, Room 314B, on the main Haidian campus in Beijing.

Semester study

Four distinct student categories are served by separate course tracks: international undergraduates, international postgraduates, exchange students, and non-degree advanced-studies students. Each track follows a semester-unit curriculum design, with each semester comprising approximately eighteen weeks and twenty contact hours per week — four class hours per day, Monday through Friday. At the start of each term, all new students sit a placement examination administered by the International Chinese Language and Culture Centre (ICLCC), which assigns them to one of eight proficiency levels ranging from elementary to advanced.

The standard semester programme covers comprehensive Chinese language skills alongside focused reading and listening work, and students who meet enrolment, examination, and attendance requirements receive a Tsinghua University completion certificate and transcript. The centre also coordinates second foreign language instruction for Chinese-national students and manages university-wide language qualification programmes. The Language Teaching Centre is the administrative point of contact for Chinese Language Programme enrolments across Tsinghua's international student offices.

The Haidian campus

The Language Teaching Centre is based in the Mingli Building on Tsinghua’s Beijing campus. Students joining for one semester follow the university teaching calendar, with a placement examination at the beginning of the term.