Beijing Language and Culture University

Program Highlights

Weekend host family visits and an added fifth week (for a total of 9 weeks) for conducting fieldwork research, the best essays for which are published by the Higher Education Prize. Single rooms.

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Language Levels

2nd Year through 5th Year

Term Offered

Summer: mid June - mid August

Additional Information

The Harvard-Beijing Academy is extremely competitive. Even very good students are routinely not admitted because of limited space. It is recommended that students apply to second and third choice programs or risk losing their Light Fellowship.

HBA accepts the Light Fellowship Language Evaluation as a substitute for a letter of recommendation. This relieves instructors of the burden of writing a separate letter. Moreover, the program actually finds greater value in our form than in a standard letter.

The health insurance section of the HBA application does have to be completed in order to continue to later sections, so students should  enter their current (school or personal) insurance information. The Light Fellowship will provide fellows with HTH International insurance coverage for their time abroad; policy details to be distributed shortly before departure.

Students selecting social studies projects outside of Beijing will require personal funds for extra expenses.

HBA Web Site