University application guide
外交学院
Beijing, Beijing, China
This guide brings together the application routes, published timing, submission methods, scholarship steps, documents, and source links recorded for China Foreign Affairs University. Requirements can differ by degree, program, teaching language, and funding route. The university’s current notice controls the application.
The profile includes CSC-related application guidance for China Foreign Affairs University. Type B participation, eligible programs, and deadlines must be confirmed in the current university call.
Agency number recorded: 10040. Confirm it in the current Type B notice before submitting.
600元 (CNY 600 registration/application fee) CFAU publishes the charge identically in all five 2026 degree notices, under '五、费用标准', as '（一）报名注册费：600元' — a registration/application fee of CNY 600. The wording on refundability is explicit and uniform: '报名费一律不退' (the fee is never refunded). Payment mechanics are also stated: '现场报名时交纳；如不是现场报名，而是邮寄报名材料，请勿同时邮寄报名费，报名费在参加入学考试时补交。' (pay on the spot if applying in person; if posting materials, do not send the fee with them, because it is collected at the entrance examination). The CFAU Chinese Government Scholarship page repeats the figure for the High-Level Postgraduate route — '提交申请后，需支付600元人民币申请费，请发送邮件至admission@cfau.edu.cn获取账户信息...申请费一经汇出不予退还。' (after submitting the application a CNY 600 application fee is payable; email admission@cfau.edu.cn for account details; the fee is non-refundable once remitted). TUITION IS NOT THE APPLICATION FEE and must not be recorded as one: the same notices quote tuition per year — CNY 24,000/year undergraduate, CNY 25,000/year Chinese-taught master's, CNY 30,000/year English-taught International Relations master's, CNY 32,000/year doctoral and CNY 34,000/year English-taught doctoral — and those are annual tuition charges. Insurance is CNY 800/year, payable with tuition, and the CFAU notice adds for the English-taught master's and both doctoral programmes that '保险费一律不退' (the insurance fee is never refunded). Accommodation is charged by the day, not as an application fee: CNY 80/person/day for a triple room at the Zhanlanlu campus International Exchange Centre and CNY 80/person/day for a single room (14 m²) in the Shahe campus student apartments.
Charges, windows and entry rules published by CFAU's own International Students' Office for the 2026/2027 intake; the CSC scholarship figures come from the CFAU scholarship pages. Every figure below is a charge published by CFAU unless labelled as a scholarship standard. · recorded source check: September 15, 2026
Published dates and unconfirmed windows
2026/2027 intake (September 2026 entry), re-checked on 15 September 2026: the recorded window is accurate and closed, and no 2027/2028 notice exists. The recorded source https://iss.cfau.edu.cn/col4183/col4187/19ca2dd7fdbb4f38aac785ae04cdf396.htm was re-fetched today with HTTP 200 and is the 2026年本科生项目 notice, uploaded 2026-03-09, which states verbatim '（二）申请时间：1月1日—5月1日。' The other three 2026 degree notices on the same board — 2026年中文授课硕士研究生项目 (d46adb82e89e4af8b0b9520b1e78da1f), 2026年英文授课国际关系硕士研究生项目 (fb918fa0f3574e9bb6e6adfd60db0575), 2026年博士研究生项目 (c87a6058c96a430bb9b52c0f2995724e) and 2026年英文授课博士研究生项目 (5548906ab9d94414acb4180e4095a27a) — were all fetched today with HTTP 200 and all carry the identical line '（二）申请时间：1月1日—5月1日。', every one uploaded 2026-03-09. That window closed on 1 May 2026 for every level and every language of instruction. Undergraduate applicants also had to submit a CSCA (China Scholastic Competency Assessment) result by 1 May ('考试成绩提交截止日期为5月1日（同报名截止时间）'), and the entrance examination (online interview in Chinese and the applicant's subject) is held in late May or early June each year. Chinese Government Scholarship through CFAU runs on a separate, earlier track: the CFAU scholarship page (https://iss.cfau.edu.cn/col4185/col4274/9cabfdbd76e74c4fa60b06c948b9502f.htm, uploaded 2025-12-04, HTTP 200 today) covers the 高水平研究生 High-Level Postgraduate Program and instructs applicants to apply through the CFAU International Students' Office site and then '请于二月二十二号前完成申请。逾期申请将不予处理。' (complete the application before 22 February; late applications will not be processed), with the CSC online application (studyinchina.csc.edu.cn) submitted as project category B under agency code 10040. That closed on 22 February 2026. Category A (bilateral) applicants apply to the Chinese embassy in their own country rather than to CFAU, and CFAU will issue a pre-admission letter on request for that purpose. NO 2027/2028 NOTICE: the degree-programme board at https://iss.cfau.edu.cn/col4183/col4187/index.htm (HTTP 200 today) lists as its newest entries the five 2026 programmes uploaded 2026-03-09, above the undated earlier versions of the same programmes; nothing for the 2027 intake has been published. The CFAU news board's newest item is dated 2026-09-11 and the newest teaching notice is the 2026-2027 academic calendar item set.
Recorded CSC agency number; confirm it in the current CSC call: 10040
Guide scope reviewed 3 October 2026. Dates apply only to the intake and route named in each notice.
Funding options
These awards are listed on the university profile. Eligibility, eligible degree levels, coverage, deadlines and whether new applicants can apply vary by award and intake. Open the dated call before selecting an award or paying an application fee.
Choose your funding route to see where to start, which systems to use and what to submit.
Historical reference: Start with the university application
Self-funded admission
2027 dates unconfirmed · Autumn degree intake; program-dependent
An exact 2027 admission window is not established by the reviewed university sources. Check the prospectus for your degree and teaching language before scheduling submission.
University website — locate the current admission noticeSelf-funded Chinese-taught undergraduate admission
For the 2026 undergraduate route, enter the Online Application section of the International Students Office site and upload the university form, applicant and guarantor identification, China guarantor undertaking, degree/transcripts, passport photos, HSK 4 or above, a Chinese purpose statement within 500 characters, and transfer/residence evidence if studying in China. Under-18 applicants need notarized Beijing guardianship. Submit CSCA humanities Chinese and mathematics results by May 1. The application window was January 1–May 1, 2026. An online Chinese/subject interview follows in late May or early June. The ¥600 non-refundable application/registration fee is described as payable at on-site application or at the entrance examination for non-site applicants; confirm online payment instructions with the office. Tuition and insurance are paid at registration.
Reference: 2026. Confirm the latest notice for the same course and route before applying.
Read the university's procedureCheck China Foreign Affairs University's current prospectus for your degree, teaching language, eligibility and deadline. Arrange supervisor contact or pre-admission first when the program requires it.
Read official admission instructionsUse the checklist below, then compare it with your program's required documents. Prepare any signed forms, translations and referee submissions before starting the final application.
Use the official application link and complete the fields required for your route. Submit documents only through the channel and at the stage stated in the current notice. Pay a charge only when instructed; retain any submission confirmation the system provides.
Check tuition, accommodation, insurance, payment deadlines and any financial-guarantee requirement. Accept the offer through the university's stated process. A CSC application is not part of a purely self-funded route.
Check your portal and email for missing-document requests, interviews and results. If a form is returned, correct it and resubmit. Keep admission and scholarship decisions separate; follow the final offer for acceptance, registration and original-document checks.
See annotated portal walkthroughs
Use the document list for your exact program. Prepare these common items, then add any scholarship-specific forms:
Scan each complete document clearly. Use the file type and size limit shown beside its upload field; combine multi-page documents only where the system permits. Open every uploaded file to check legibility, page order, signatures and stamps. Keep a copy of everything you submit.
Application templatesFollow the submission method in your programme's notice. The steps below apply when it requires an online form; email and paper applications follow their separate source-linked instructions above.
University agency number on record: 10040. For Type B, match it to China Foreign Affairs University in CSC. Type A uses your dispatching authority's number instead.
Open CSC application systemCSC scholarship application systemThe links below support the dates, route sequence, and program details shown above. Some are planning references rather than a current university deadline; each item on the admissions calendar states its source and evidence basis.
Dates and funding rules change by intake. Recheck the current official notice before paying, submitting, or arranging documents.