Prerequisites include a one-year language requirement. Where feasible, the language program and the area studies course complement each other. Living arrangements at Nanjing are good. Students share their rooms with a Chinese roommate from the Chinese Department of the university.
Email is now available both in dorm, and outside at web cafes.
Thanks to her and her predecessors' hard work, working relationship and administrative contact with Nanjing remain cooperative, cordial, and mutually supportive. As at the Beijing Center, class placement at Nanjing has been determined by both written test and oral interview. The A and B classes, with a textbook specially created to link the language work to the area studies class and to the world outside the classroom, continue to be well-received. The C class can be problematical, mainly because students placed in this class very so much in language background. It takes very sensitive and creative teacher to handle this sort of class well.