Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade

Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade was founded in 2004 and is a full-time undergraduate university approved by China’s Ministry of Education, authorised to grant master’s degrees and designated a first-class application-oriented university in Fujian Province.

Its campus covers more than 2,400 mu in Changle District, Fuzhou, with over 650,000 square metres of buildings, teaching equipment worth more than RMB 126 million, and 160 teaching laboratories.

Nine schools, among them Foreign Languages, International Business, Finance and Accounting, Big Data, Intelligent Construction and Art and Design, offer 40 undergraduate majors to more than 21,000 full-time undergraduates. The School of Art and Design teaches fashion design, fine arts, animation, and radio and television editing and directing; its fashion and apparel design programme runs with the Syracuse Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Italy, the second such Sino-foreign programme approved in China.

Some 1,300 full-time and part-time teachers work at the university, more than 80% holding a master’s degree or higher. Sixteen research institutions include the Fujian University Engineering Research Centre for Modern Service Industry, and agreements with more than 30 international institutions, among them Plymouth University, Massey University and Wayne State University, support 3+1 and 2+2 pathways.