Post-graduate education at BFSU has developed rapidly since post-graduate programs were reintroduced in 1978 and since academic degrees were awarded for the first time in 1981. By the end of 1997, BFSU has recruited 56 Ph.D. students and 1245 MA students. The number of people who have successfully completed their post-graduate studies and been awarded Ph.D. degrees or Master¨s degrees are 21 and 667, respectively.
There are 7 Ph.D. programs and 11 MA programs at BFSU. The post-graduate programs in English language and literature constitute one of the key research programs in China. At present, there are 21 Ph.D. supervisors, 36 Ph.D. candidates and 279 MA students. The university recruits 25students in the Ph.D. programs and 110 students in the MA programs (90 of them are funded by the state).
The course World Literature is offered to post-graduate students in all disciplines on campus while another 48 courses for individual disciplines and 235 compulsory courses for individual programs are offered. A total number of 249 elective courses are offered for these programs.
| Ph.D. Programs (7) | MA Programs (11) |
| English Language and Literature Russian Language and Literature German Language and Literature Japanese Language and Literature Spanish Language and Literature Arabic Language and Literature European Language and Literature |
English Language and Literature Russian Language and Literature French Language and Literature German Language and Literature Japanese Language and Literature Spanish Language and Literature Arabic Language and Literature European Language and Literature Afro-Asian Language and Literature Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Chinese Linguistics and Applied Linguistics |
| English Language and Literature | |||
| HU Wenzhong |
professor |
male |
Australian literature, cross-culture communication |
|
QIAN Qing |
professor |
female |
American literature |
| WU Bing |
professor |
female |
19, 20 century American literature, American Asian literature, English stylistics |
|
ZHANG Zhongzai |
professor |
male |
19, 20 century American literature, Western Philosophy |
|
HE Qixin |
professor |
male |
British Renaissance literature, British drama, 20 century British novels |
|
LIU Renqing |
professor |
male |
general linguistics |
| MEI Renyi |
professor |
male |
Post-war American history of foreign affairs, Sino-American relations |
|
GU Yueguo |
professor |
male |
pragmatics, discourse analysis, rhetoric |
| Russian Language and Literature | |||
| WANG Fuxiang |
professor |
male |
pragmatics, discourse analysis |
| BAI Chunren |
professor |
male |
Russian rhetoric, poetics |
| WANG Jiafei |
professor |
male |
Russian rhetoric |
| GUO Yukai |
professor |
male |
Russian semantics |
| German Language and Literature | |||
| XIE Yingying |
professor |
female |
German literature |
| CHEN Huiying |
professor |
female |
German literature |
| YIN Tongsheng |
professor |
male |
German foreign relations and economy |
| Japanese Language and Literature | |||
| YAN Ansheng |
professor |
male |
Japanese literature, Sino-Japanese comparative literature |
| Spanish Language and Literature | |||
| DONG Yansheng |
professor |
male |
Spanish literature, translation |
| Arabic Language and Literature | |||
| YU Zhangrong |
professor |
male |
Arabic language and literature |
| SHI Xitong |
professor |
male |
Arabic history Arabic Islamic culture |
| East European Languages and Literature | |||
| YI Lijun |
professor |
female |
Polish language and literature |
| FENG Zhichen |
professor |
male |
Rumanian language and literature |
