Minsk State Linguistic University (MSLU) is a recognized leader in the field of linguistic education in Belarus. It was established in 1948.

Today, MSLU provides professional training in 23 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Korean, Swedish, Polish, Lithuanian, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, Urdu, Hebrew, Portuguese, Hungarian, Finnish, Russian and Belarusian.

MSLU comprises six major schools: School of English, School of German, School of Romance languages (division of French, Spanish), School of Chinese Language and Culture, School of Translation and Interpreting, School of Intercultural Communication:

MSLU offers six academic majors: interpreting and translation, foreign language teaching, information support, public relations, international economic relations, and international tourism. The University also offers eighteen specializations, including world literature, literary translation, technical translation, simultaneous interpreting, Russian as a foreign language, communication technologies in business, and others.

International students can also take long or short-term courses in Russian or Belarusian, as well as a preparatory Russian course.

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MSLU offers Master's degree programs in the following fields: Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Foreign Literature Research, Linguodidactics, Translation and Translation Studies, Linguistic Support of Intercultural Communication.

Moreover, PhD programs are also available in nine research fields: Foreign literature studies; Belarusian language; Germanic Languages; Romance Languages; Language theory; Comparative historical, typological, and contrastive linguistics; Applied and computational linguistics; General pedagogy, History of Pedagogics and Education; Theory and methodology of teaching and education; Pedagogical psychology.

MSLU is a member of the CIUTI, MAPRYAL, International Association of Universities. MSLU plays an active role in the Association for the Languages and Cultures of the CIS members. MSLU singed the MoU with the UNO in 2010. On the whole MSLU has over 125 agreements of cooperation with educational institutions all over the world.

Fifteen language and culture centers, as well as the Confucius Institute, are open on the MSLU premises.