One of the advantages of the Dali University are the small classes with ~ 5 students. The school offers 12 ... 15 lessons a week and the students can choose your own daily schedule. You can also use the books of your choice and negotiate your own preferences, like grammar, writing, language lab, or whatever.
Some of the teachers have a master degree and specially those are really good. If you are not happy with a particular teacher, you can always negotiate changes. Right, there are a few teachers from the far North-East, although I quite like the YunNan accent of the others.
However : The Dali University is still not an University, it is on a college level, so you may not get a (higher) degree, however you can do now HSK tests in Dali. The college is at least 30 mins walking distance to the old town, there is a bus (1 Yuan) every 20 mins. You can get food on the campus, it's not great, but still kind of ok. The school fees seem to be higher than in KunMing and you should try to negotiate them. The school will provide you with a letter of confirmation to obtain an X-Visa at the PSB in Xiaguan for the time you registered, recently, the PSB there has been very relaxed and helpful.

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Has any laowai been successful to get an International Credit Card from a Chinese Bank ?
BOC has got application forms which seem to support foreigner's accounts in China, however BOC never came back to my application ...
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I don't think the Dali College can offer you a degree, however you can get it externally.

This term will end January 14th. Next term will start around March 1rst.

Yes you can study Chinese at the Dali College (it's not yet an University).
Currently there are 5 classes with all different levels and 5 ... 10 students each.
There teachers are all professionals, most of them have received Master degrees in teaching foreigners Chinese, and studying is much fun.

Currently there are no HSK tests in Dali, they plan to have them soon, in the meatime it is easy to go to Kunming to attend external tests.
Schoolfees are subject to changes and (!) negotiations, they may range from 6.000 RMB up per term. Due to the good relations with the XiaoGuan PCB you can get up to one year Visa, provided you paid the fees ;-)
You can contact me 13988506403 I will find someone to show you around. Or, you can also just go to their office (Bus No.2) and ask questions, the office is open from 09:00 - 11:00 and 14:30 - 16:30