Beijing Cultural and Language University (BLCU) reviews

Going to BLCU was akin to being a prisoner. This was the most racist and hostile experience of my life, and in no way was what happened at this clown college an education. BLCU was rife with fraud as well and it seemed like they were above the law and if you were not Chinese you were not worthy of consideration. Between the discrimination, rudeness of the staff, and the utter inability and/unwillingness to teach anything, I was shocked at how uncivilized the whole experience was. 

after taking our money, we were banned from the campus for not being Chinese, exclusively, while the Chinese students were free to go. They refused to explain this or address this and would become aggressive if pressured to be fair with us. Even before this, we would have to call security and be examined at the door like criminals, when Chinese students could just walk in. It got to the point that if we had to deal with any documents we would have to stand on the street and wait for staff to come outside to deal with us, as if we were lepers, in the freezing winter. This is uncivilized.

The staff will threaten you if you if they don't get their way, don't listen to questions and no one on the campus speaks any language other than Chinese. While I was there, students were banned from the campus on a racial basis with no explanation. Teachers would often raise their voices disrespectfully at students for not understanding them(in a level 0 Chinese course) and I was mocked and discriminated in front of the class by one "teacher" called "arigatou" on WeChat. Her actual name was Zhou and she is in her 30s. I stopped attending her class entirely in protest and no one cared about my report or that I didn't go anymore. The staff and school itself as a whole did not enforce any rule on the handbook unless it came at the expense of the foreign student. In class the staff would rattle off uncomfortably nationalist and factually incorrect data like "China is 5000 years old". Everything anything said in class was about how YOU are not Chinese and you don't know anything about China. the head of my department fell asleep during our exam and I took a video of him doing so. When brought up to the administration, they just ignored me. Staff would tell us about what time our next class was at sometimes 1-2 in the morning the night before. We were expected to study and know all of the material for the next class before we ever went to it. There was no learning in any class. What was the point of the class? The list of atrociously unprofessional and disrespectful experiences I had at BLCU is a very long list. Bizarre and depressing experience. 

Despite false advertising, fraud and failure to deliver the services agreed upon, BLCU was unwilling to offer any form of refund or take responsibility for any(provable) behavior and CA would have nothing to say about it either when approached/didn't respond to emails or WeChat messages. BLCU casually and consistently engaged in criminal activity. Mr. Feng, the foreign assistance staff, was patronizing and very disrespectful and didn't speak a word of any other language. 

It's hard to believe China Admissions had no idea what was going on here. I asked multiple students who were there for years and they all said the abuse was like this for many years. Those students explained that they were at BLCU purely for the visa and they didn't even participate in the classes at all and no one cared. What kind of joke is this place? How could CA not know something so obvious and if they did know, that would mean that they are complicit. CA even failed to get my money back for an application to another university that ignored my application, even though that was the terms of our agreement. When I'd email and WeChat them about all of this they just vanished and I never heard from them again. 

I pointed out the discrimination for being a non Chinese person, and I told them it was completely illegal, and no one cared or even reacted to my comment, and these were all head staff. I said "this is a crime, you must address it" and no one cared. 

BLCU is an indicator of a greatly escalating problem in China, which is a hatred, distrust, and disrespect of immigrants but love of their money. This is palpable on the BLCU campus. 

If you walked by any staff they'd pull up their masks(only for you) and leave elevators and stairwells if you were inside, be unwilling to speak to you or help you while be fine with Chinese students, and more.

BLCU is not ready to be part of the civilized world. Though it physically looks like a university, BLCU on a fundamental level doesn't know what education is, or is an elaborate scam, and CA is complicit. The fact that this advertisement from BLCU is still up speaks volumes about CA.

A whole year after this experience, the owner of the company responded to something I had written about CA online. It seems like CA only responded because it was public and looked bad. 

At BLCU you will not be treated like a human being. China Admissions failed, BLCU failed, and the justice system of China failed. I can't think of any sane reason to come to study at BLCU or China at all.