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Liaoning Finance and Trade College


Liaoning Finance and Trade College (simplified Chinese: 辽宁财贸学院; traditional Chinese: 遼寧財貿學院; pinyin: Liáoníng cáimào xuéyuàn), formerly known as Shenyang Shifan University Bohai College, is a small, partially walled private undergraduate college located on the Liaodong Bay of the Bohai coast in Xingcheng, southwest of Huludao in Liaoning province on the east coast of China.

The college's academic term is the semester.

New students start arriving at the end of August each year and complete a few weeks of compulsory military training before beginning their studies. Returning students arrive to resume classes at the beginning of September. The Fall semester ends at the beginning of January. The Spring semester starts at the beginning of March and ends at the beginning of July. A few national holidays are observed each semester.

Students typically spend the last week of each semester sitting exams. After exams are finished the students are required to vacate their dorms until the following semester. As a result, the campus is like a ghost town for most of January, February, July, and August although there are workers present and security personnel vigilant.

Although it is a four-year institution, most students only attend classes the first three years. Come the fourth year, most students seek internships or employment and return periodically for examinations before graduation.

Upon matriculation, the students are grouped together in classes that range in size between 30 and 160 students, depending on which major they have been assigned. These groups—or classes—attend the same courses at the same time with the same classmates for the duration of their college career. The courses that the students take and when they take them are decided and mandated by their department's administration. Attendance is mandatory.

Many aspects of the students' lives are overseen by resident assistants and monitors. The students typically engage in very few extracurricular activities as their typical day is full of classes, study time, and sometimes mandatory group exercise (PE). Classes run Monday through Friday with possible commitments over the weekend. Class days are divided up into eight 45-minute academic hours with 10 and 20 minute breaks in between. The day starts at 08:00 and ends at 16:50. Everyone breaks for lunch at the same time, between 11:40 and 13:20.


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