西安外國語大學是新中國最早建立的4所外語院校之一，是西北地區唯一的一所主要外語語種齊全的普通高校。1951年，經中央人民政府教育部批準，由蘭州大學文學院俄文系、西北大學外國語文系俄文組、俄文專修科合并組建了西安外國語大學的前身——西北俄文�？茖W校。1952年，中共西北局黨校俄文班并入西北俄文�？茖W校，學校開始招生。1958年更名為西安外國語學院。1979年開始招收研究生，1986年經國務院學位委員會批準，正式成為碩士學位授權單位。2006年經教育部批準，學校更名為西安外國語大學。2011年被陜西省人民政府列為“十二五”期間重點建設的高水平大學。2013年1月，經國務院學位委員會批準成為博士學位授予單位，獲得外國語言文學一級學科博士學位授予權。2014年經人力資源與社會保障部和全國博士后管委會批準設立博士后科研流動站。經過60多年的建設和發展，學校已實現了由單科外語院校向突出外語教育和國外人文社會科學研究特色，以人文學科為主體，社會學科、管理學科和理學學科協調發展的多學科外國語大學的轉變，是國家西部重要的外語人才培養基地，在西北地區的外語教育教學和研究領域發揮著不可替代的作用。
學�？傉嫉孛娣e1593畝，建筑面積81.15萬平方米。學校辦學基礎設施完善，教學設備先進，多媒體網絡教室、語言實驗室、計算機實驗室、同聲傳譯室、模擬導游實驗室、新聞采編實驗室等現代化設施齊全。先進的衛星接收系統可接收不同語種國家電視節目。圖書館實行計算機管理，并設有大型電子學術期刊文獻庫。2009年2月，學校被授予省級“文明校園”。
學�，F有35個學院（部）等教學機構，具有外國語言文學一級學科博士點，外國語言文學、中國語言文學、工商管理、教育學4個一級學科碩士點，13個二級學科博士點，59個二級學科碩士點，是翻譯碩士、漢語國際教育碩士、旅游管理碩士、會計碩士、新聞傳播碩士、教育碩士專業學位培養單位，開設47個本科專業，7個輔修專業，覆蓋文學、經濟學、管理學、法學、教育學、理學、藝術學7個學科門類，與國外9所大學聯合培養博士研究生。外國語言文學一級學科為陜西省普通高校哲學社會科學特色學科，英語語言文學、法語語言文學、德語語言文學為陜西省重點學科；英語專業為國家級專業綜合改革試點，英語、俄語、法語、旅游管理、翻譯等5個專業為國家級特色專業，會計學(ACCA)和旅游管理(英語)、工商管理（CIMA）、金融學、人文地理與城鄉規劃專業為省級專業綜合改革試點，英語、德語、法語、俄語和日語等5個專業為陜西省名牌專業，英語、俄語、法語、西班牙語、旅游管理、翻譯、德語、會計學（ACCA方向）、日語等9個專業為陜西省特色專業；英語寫作為國家級精品課程，英語精讀、英語寫作、英語翻譯、法語精讀、基礎日語、德語精讀、英語模擬導游、俄語翻譯、英國文學、英語視聽說、中國文化解說、管理學、法國文學史、翻譯與實踐、國際貿易與實務、商務英語寫作等16門課程為省級精品課程；財務會計被評為國家級雙語教學示范課程，財務會計、國際商法等2門課程被評為省級雙語教學示范課程；“英語寫作”被評為國家級精品資源共享課，“財務會計”、“商務分析”、“旅游學概論”、跨文化人力資源管理、金融學、國際貿易實務、經濟地理學、人文地理學、城市規劃原理、外語教師教育ESP課程、旅游地理學等11門課程被評為省級精品資源共享課；“應用型翻譯人才培養模式創新實驗區”被評為國家級人才培養模式創新實驗區，國際商務、應用型翻譯、國際旅游、國際化外語教師教育、國際會計、國際化應用型金融人才和國際工商管理(CIMA)等7個人才培養模式創新實驗區被評為省級人才培養模式創新實驗區；法語文學與翻譯教學團隊為國家級教學團隊，法語文學與翻譯、中外旅游文化、國際商務、翻譯、英語寫作、工商管理類主干課程、旅游法理論與實務、工商管理（CIMA）、金融學（CFA）國際化創新、國際貿易雙語、區域旅游與城鄉社區規劃、旅游業運營管理等12個教學團隊為省級教學團隊�！胺g專業教學模式研究、創新與實踐” 、“國際化商務人才培養模式創新與實踐”獲得陜西省教學成果獎特等獎。學校與環球時報在線（北京）文化傳播有限公司合作建立文學實踐教育基地先后獲批成為國家級、省級大學生校外實踐教育基地，與西安百事可樂飲料有限公司合作建立的管理學實踐教育基地獲批省級大學生校外實踐教育基地。學校是非通用語提前批次招生院校、推薦優秀本科生免試攻讀碩士研究生院校和接收保送生資格院�！，F有博士研究生、碩士研究生、本�？粕�、外國留學生及各類培訓學生2.4萬余人。
學�？蒲袑嵙�，設有歐美文學研究中心、外國語言學及應用語言學研究中心、陜西旅游研究院、人文地理研究所等31個學術和研究機構，歐美文學研究中心、外國語言學及應用語言學研究中心為陜西高校哲學社會科學重點研究基地。學校還與中國教育國際交流協會合作共建國際教育交流研究中心，形成了較為完整并具有一定規模的外語及跨學科科研體系，承擔了一批國家級、省部級及外國文化部資助的科研項目，出版了高質量的大型辭書、專著、譯著、論文和教材。學校創辦的《外語教學》、《人文地理》、《西安外國語大學學報》等學術刊物是在國內外學術界具有一定影響的中國人文社會科學和中國地理學核心期刊，其中《外語教學》、《人文地理》雜志連續多年入選CSSCI來源期刊，《西安外國語大學學報》為CSSCI擴展版來源期刊。2014年，《外語教學》、《人文地理》獲評“中國國際影響力優秀學術期刊”和“中國最具國際影響力學術期刊”。
學校堅持發揮自身優勢，廣泛開展國際學術交流，先后與國（境）外179所大學和教育機構建立了友好合作關系。。學校先后被教育部確定為富布萊特項目定點院校、接收中國政府獎學金項目來華留學生委托培養單位。與100多所國外大學開展聯合培養博士、碩士、學士“雙校園”項目，開辟了美國、新加坡、泰國、法國和英國等海外實習基地。學校積極響應國家建設絲綢之路經濟帶戰略，成立了中亞學院，專門開展中亞國家留學生教育。學校在美國、哈薩克斯坦、阿根廷和奧地利建立了3所孔子學院、1所孔子課堂。2012年，經國家漢辦批準設立漢語國際推廣多語種基地（西安）。學校與美國洪堡州立大學合作創辦了西外洪堡學院，與法國巴黎摩達爾時裝藝術設計學院合作創辦了西外巴黎時裝藝術設計學院；與英國特許公認會計師公會、管理會計師公會合作開辦了ACCA教改班、CIMA教改班、CFA教改班。韓國文化院、德國歌德學院、美國普城英語集團分別在學校設立了“世宗學堂”、“歌德語言中心”、“秦蘇珊英語中心”，學校還與俄羅斯新西伯利亞國立技術大學共建俄語語言文化中心。此外，學校還設有教育部出國留學人員培訓部、國家留學基金委留學預備教育中心、中國（教育部）留學服務中心留學培訓基地。
學校著力提高人才培養質量，取得了明顯效果。西外畢業生以“外語功底扎實，交際能力強，綜合素質高，適應工作快，敬業愛崗，踏實肯干，有發展潛力”而深受用人單位歡迎，畢業生就業率連續多年保持在較高水平。學校志愿者團體積極服務社會經濟文化發展，大學生參加了北京奧運會、上海世博會、西安世界園藝博覽會、深圳世界大學生運動會、南京青奧會、歐亞經濟論壇等重大活動的志愿者工作，學校志愿者總隊被授予“中國百個優秀志愿服務集體”等多項榮譽。為適應新世紀社會發展和經濟建設的需要，學校將緊抓國家高等教育大發展和西部大開發的歷史機遇，“立足陜西，服務西北，輻射全國，面向世界”，堅持走開放式、國際化辦學道路，不斷深化教學改革，改善辦學條件，提高教育教學質量，為建設特色鮮明的高水平大學而努力奮斗！
Established in 1952 with the name of Northwest Russian College, Xi’an International Studies University (XISU) is the only university in northwest China conducting a complete range of foreign language programs. It was renamed as Xi’an Foreign Languages University in 1958. In 1979, the University started taking in postgraduate students. In 1986, with the authorization of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, it acquired the right to grant master’s degrees. In February 2006, upon the approval of the Ministry of Education, the University changed its name to Xi’an International Studies University.
Development over the past fifty-odd years has facilitated XISU’s transformation from a university focusing only on foreign language education to a teaching-research university with coordinated and balanced programs in international studies, humanities, social studies, management as well as natural sciences. XISU is now an important foreign languages education base, playing an irreplaceable role in foreign language teaching and research in western China and China as a whole.
The University covers an area of 262 acres, with a floor space of 679,000 square meters. It is well equipped with advanced teaching devices like multimedia network classrooms, language laboratories, computer clusters, laboratories for simultaneous interpretation, mock guided tour laboratories and laboratories for news editing. With an advanced satellite receiving system, students in XISU can watch television programs broadcast in different languages. Our computerized library offers access to an extensive digital database of academic journals.
Altogether, the university now has 27 faculties and departments, 39 undergraduate programs plus 7 minor programs covering literature, economics, management, law, education and natural science. It also independently trains candidates of MTI and MTCSOL and PhD candidates in conjunction with three overseas universities.
XISU has a reasonable quantity of provincial and national key subjects and outstanding courses. It houses a National Experimental Base for the Innovation of the Educational Model of Professional Translators and Interpreters, as well as a Research Center for Euro-American Language and Literature, which is a key research base at the provincial level.
XISU can grant early admission to high school students planning to learn uncommonly-used languages, and recommend excellent undergraduate students to pursue further studies for a master’s degree. We have a total of 24,000 students, including master degree candidates, undergraduates, junior college students and international students as well as short-term trainee students. We take education quality as our first priority, and have set up effective systems for teaching assessment, quality education assessment and teaching quality monitoring. Thanks to this, we have won favorable comments and recognition from the expert teams of the Ministry of Education in several evaluation projects.
With 24 academic and research institutions for foreign languages, human geography and international exchanges, we have formed a complete interdisciplinary research system, undertaken a series of national, provincial and foreign-sponsored research programs, and published dictionaries, treatises, translations, theses and textbooks. The academic journals of XISU, namely Foreign Language Education, Journal of Xi’an International Studies University and Human Geography, enjoy a remarkable reputation both at home and abroad. Among these, Foreign Language Education and Human Geography are listed as 2008 to 2009 CSSCI source journals.
We attach great importance to extensive international exchanges and have established cooperative relations with 118 overseas universities and educational institutions. We participate in the Fulbright Program, receive international students with scholarships from the Chinese government, and carry out “two-campuses” programs with 77 universities in 21 countries including Australia, Japan, France, Spain and Canada, for the training of undergraduate and postgraduate students. Besides, we have helped establish two Confucius Institutes in Kazakhstan and Argentina, built XISU-Humboldt Institute with California’s Humboldt State University, founded XISU Paris in Fashion Art Design Institute with Paris MOD’art Fashion Art Design Institute, established Sejong Institute with the support of the Korean Cultural Institute, the Korean Embassy in China and the Korean Consulate General in Xi’an, and set up XISU Goethe Language Center with Goethe Institute of the Federal Republic of Germany. We also have three training bases in America, Singapore and Britain. In the past six years, we have sent altogether 1,681 students to study or work abroad.
We provide training services for people who want to pursue further studies abroad. During the past thirty years, we have organized 55 programs to help over 86,000 people go overseas. Among them are established scholars, college presidents and industrialists. In December 2007, in cooperation with the Princeton English Group, we set up Susan Chyn English Center, and in March 2008, a training base for those who want to study abroad with the Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange (the Ministry of Education).
XISU pays keen attention to education quality and has remarkable achievements in this respect. In 2008, a volunteer group of 454 teachers and students from XISU worked for Beijing Olympic Games. Their service was well received by domestic and foreign visitors as well as by Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games. The volunteer contingent of XISU has won national honors for their hard work. Graduates from XISU are welcomed by employers for their diligence, flexibility, good language proficiency, remarkable communicative competence and high overall quality. We have maintained an employment rate of over 90% for undergraduate students, and over 95% for postgraduate students. In the 2009 List for the Employability of Chinese Universities, XISU earned a highly satisfactory ranking.
To further adapt ourselves to economic and social development in the new century, XISU will take the opportunities brought by the Western Development Campaign and the general development of higher education in China to intensify its efforts in teaching reform and in the improvement of teaching facilities and education quality so as to forge an even brighter future for itself.
