Over the past 50 years, China Foreign Affairs University has turned out nearly 20,000 students, who have became excellent talents in the fields of Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs and International Studies, and have made tremendous contributions to China’s cause of diplomacy. In the year of 2014, over 2000 Chinese students of different levels have been enrolled at CFAU. China Foreign Affairs University is crowned as "Cradle of Chinese Diplomats".
A considerable number of international students from Eastern European countries received training at CFAU in the 1950s; many of them have now held senior diplomatic posts in their respective countries, or have become experts in international studies. Since the 1980s CFAU resumed its enrollment of international students. In 2014, there are over 160 international students from more than 50 countries enrolled at CFAU.
