Applicants to the Fall 2010 Beijing overseas program need not have any Chinese language experience, the Bing Overseas Studies Program announced Monday.

On its Web site, the program said it will accept applications both from students who wish to enhance their Chinese and and from those who have no experience in the language.

The program formerly required students to have taken CHINLANG 3 for the fall term or CHINLANG 2 for the spring.

For fall 2010, Beijing now joins Australia, Cape Town, Moscow and Oxford as a quarter-long program site that does not have a language requirement. Berlin has a German prerequisite for spring quarter only.

First-round applicants will be notified of their admission results this Friday. The deadline for second round applications is Friday, Feb. 14.