China's Colleges & Universities (Pictures/Comments/News)

[Haoting]

Nine Universities set up China's 'Ivy League'
2009-10-13
Wang Xiang
Shanghai Daily


STUDENTS from China's nine top universities will have a chance to take courses on other campuses after the schools set up their own "Ivy League" group.

The Chinese league, named C9, includes Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Harbin Institute of Techonology, Nanjing University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and China Science & Technology University.

Students of the schools can transfer between the nine institutes and their grades and credits will be recognized by league members.

The nine schools will also use high technology to enhance communications among campuses. Courses led by selected professors will be videotaped and put on the Internet, and regular long-distance seminars will be held by the principals.

The nine universities have also set up shared postgraduate courses. The C9 group will also enhance communications with elite foreign educational organizations such as the American Ivy League and Australian G8.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/arti...cle_416190.htm


Peking University 北京大学



Tsinghua University 清华大学



Zhejiang University 浙江大学



Fudan University 复旦大学



Shanghai Jiaotong University 上海交通大学




Harbin Institute of Technology 哈尔滨工业大学



Nanjing University 南京大学



Xi'an Jiaotong University 西安交通大学


University of Science of Technology of China 中国科学技术大学

[BarbaricManchurian]

No Nankai University? Or Tianjin University (though it is worse than Nankai)? Tianjin doesn't seem to have a problem with keeping its second-rate status.

[Haoting]

Beijing Geely University 北京吉利大学
http://www.bgeelyu.com.cn/default.asp



Located in the scenic zone of the Changping Sci-tech Park with its suburban tranquility, Beijing Geely University (BGU) is a private comprehensive university founded by the Geely Group in the year 2000. It is ratified by the Beijing People’s Municipal Government and the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.

The university started enrolling full-time students on higher vocational programmes in 2001. Its campus stretches over a land area of 106 hectares, with a gross floor area of nearly five hundred thousand square metres. It has in excess of 1000 faculty and administrative staff and accommodates some 30,000 full-time students.

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[z0rg]

Are you sure that's a university? Not a Disney theme park designed by Mr Banana?

[Haoting]

中国37所研究型大学的地域分布：


华北地区9所

北京市7所：清华大学、北京大学、北京师范大学、中国人民大学、北京航空航天大学、北京理工大学、中国农业大学

天津市2所：南开大学、天津大学

河北省0所，山西省0所，内蒙古自治区0所


东北地区4所

辽宁省2所：大连理工大学、东北大学

吉林省1所：吉林大学

黑龙江省1所：哈尔滨工业大学


华东地区13所

上海市5所：上海交通大学、复旦大学、同济大学、华东师范大学、华东理工大学

江苏省4所：南京大学、东南大学、南京农业大学、南京航空航天大学

浙江省1所：浙江大学

安徽省1所：中国科学技术大学

福建省1所：厦门大学

山东省1所：山东大学

江西省0所。


中南地区6所

湖北省2所：华中科技大学、武汉大学

湖南省2所：中南大学、湖南大学

广东省2所：中山大学、华南理工大学

河南省0所。

广西壮族自治区0所。

海南省0所。



西南地区2所

重庆市1所：重庆大学

四川省1所：四川大学

贵州省0所，云南省0所，西藏自治区0所。


西北地区3所

陕西省2所：西安交通大学、西北工业大学

甘肃省1所：兰州大学

青海省0所，宁夏回族自治区0所，新疆维吾尔族自治区0所。

http://learning.sohu.com/20081224/n261404428_1.shtml

[Haoting]

One B-School, Two Campuses

China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
The Link
August-September 2009

When CEIBS opens its new campus in Beijing next year, located on 3.3 hectares within the famed Zhongguangcun Software Park, the move will accomplish far more than expanding Asia’s #1 b-school from one campus to two. CEIBS not only gains a new high-profile presence in China’s nexus of politics, academics and research. The opening also steps up the school’s already break-neck pace of expansion.



By Laurie Underwood

“Fast growth” is indisputably a fundamental characteristic of CEIBS, as any review of the school’s short but impressive history reveals. In just 15 years, the MBA programme, for example, has risen in the international rankings to place #1 in Asia and #8 worldwide, according to the Financial Times. Meanwhile, CEIBS now operates the largest Executive MBA (EMBA) programme in the world, with some 700 graduates per year, while the thriving Executive Education programme attracts nearly 10,000 mid and top-level managers annually. Today, the school boasts 58 full-time and 70 part-time professors teaching in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen or for the new Africa programme based in Accra, Ghana. In addition, CEIBS’ 30 partnerships with top-tier business schools worldwide, its 8,000-strong alumni network, and its close ties to hundreds of sponsors and employers together create a thriving, world-class academic environment.

Next year, CEIBS is gearing up to mark another significant milestone in its rapid development - an event that will drive the pace of growth even faster: by year’s end, the school will open its new Beijing campus, roughly doubling the total number of classroom seats. But the new campus accomplishes far more than expanding the school’s size. Establishing high-profile operations in China’s capital city raises the profile of the school across several fronts at the same time.


NORTHWARD BOUND - The new campus brings CEIBS a high-profile new presence in Beijing, the national political, academic and business hub.

In addition, Beijing serves as a nexus of R&D, strategy, and media, adds Prof Liu. Thus the new campus boosts CEIBS’ image on several fronts at once, he says. “With a presence in Beijing, CEIBS can expand its influence in political circles, academic circles and media circles.”

“Noble Features”

The first feature that visitors to the new CEIBS Beijing campus are likely to notice is the excellent location, seated on 3.3 hectares within the Zhongguangcun Software Park. This collection of seven high tech industrial parks, nicknamed “China’s Silicon Valley,” is home to more than 12,000 high tech companies employing more than 500,000 technicians.

The second characteristic to note is the distinctive, modern design of the facility, marked by a regal gold-black-and-red colour scheme and the vast glass windows overlooking beautiful landscaping. Commenting on the choice of Spanish design firm IDOM for the campus, CEIBS President Zhu says: “Following the tradition of the Shanghai main campus, which was designed by I.M. Pei, and following our motto of ‘China Rooted, Global Impact,’ CEIBS invited Spanish IDOM firm to design its Beijing campus.”


BICULTURAL STYLE - Following CEIBS motto of ‘China Rooted, Global Impact,’ Spain-based IDOM design firm incorporated elements of both China and Europe in the final design.

In Beijing, the IDOM architectural team headed by Lead Design Architect Inaki Garai and Project Manager Ander Gorostiaga faced several challenging constraints in creating their masterpiece. After winning the contract to design the campus back in 2005, the team learned that they must design the campus according to restrictions on land-use within the software park. The entire school had to fit into a single, compact building in order to leave a large percentage of the land for greenery and gardens and the base of the building also had to be oval in shape. Explains Mr Garai: “The regulations of the science park require us to build a very dense building. We could not design a light plot with different units scattered around the area.” Other hardships included facing a construction halt during the Beijing Olympics, and difficulties working during North China’s harsh winter conditions.

Working within these constraints, the architects devised the distinctive shape of the campus, marked by five “wings.” Each wing is separated by gardens and courtyards which are easily visible from inside. The idea, says Mr Garai, is that students and visitors feel “a constant connection to the outside environment.”

Another distinctive feature is the 100-meter walkway, or “Main Street,” connecting all functional areas of the campus. Mr Gorostiaga explains the ‘user friendly’ rationale behind this design: “We wanted to make the ground floor very easy to understand from the very first time you visit. The design guides you from the entrance to the Main Street. You won’t feel lost even for a moment.”

Finally, in a similar mix of East and West as the Shanghai campus, the new campus combines elements of both European and Chinese aesthetics, says Mr Garai. Chinese architectural tradition is found in the “noble” gold-black-red colour scheme and the Forbidden City-like use of alternating open-and-closed spaces. Meanwhile, European design tradition is found in the “minimalist European attitude” of the buildings.
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Link to the full article:
http://www.ceibs.edu/link/latest/44271_3.shtml

[littlekiss]

西南地区居然没电子科技大学（uestc）。
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

[Haoting]

Graduates of Chinese Universities Take the Lead in Earning American Ph.D.'s

Two Chinese universities have moved ahead of the University of California at Berkeley as the top sources of students who go on to earn doctorates at American institutions.

Tsinghua and Peking Universities, and Seoul National University, in South Korea, also topped the list (in that order) of how many of their bachelor’s-degree holders earned natural-science or engineering Ph.D.’s at American institutions in 2006. By that measure, Cornell University was fourth and Berkeley was fifth.

Fully half of the top 20 institutions on the list were foreign: a total of seven Chinese institutions, and one each in India, South Korea, and Taiwan.

As recently as 2004, Berkeley was No. 1 in the production of all Ph.D.’s, including education, the humanities, and the social sciences. But Tsinghua, often called “the MIT of China,” claimed the top spot in 2005, and Peking moved up to No. 2 in 2006, the most recent year for which data were available.

That’s according to an analysis, first reported in the current issue of the journal Science, of data from the National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates. The review was performed by the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology, a nonprofit group in Washington that tracks the science and engineering work force.

The trends speak to a growing concern among American educators and policy makers that China and other Asian nations are likely to produce large numbers of scientists and engineers who will help them out-compete the United States technologically. For now, that concern is allayed somewhat because many Asian students who earn Ph.D.’s in America seek to remain there to work. But their choices could change as their home country’s economies — especially China’s — mature.

The numbers reflect the abundance of foreign students pursuing Ph.D.’s in science or engineering — one third of all doctoral students in those fields — at American institutions.

—Jeffrey Brainard

Links:

http://www.usastudyservice.com/en/co...-american-phds

Chinese Schools Are Top Feeders for U.S. Doctorates
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/paper-tr...octorates.html

[Haoting]

China's 10 Most Expensive Universities

Aug 28, 2009
eChinacities.com

1) Central Academy of Drama 中央戏剧学院: 139,655 RMB/4 years


The Central Academy of Drama (CAD) and the Beijing Film Academy produce more stars than any two other universities in China. This year CAD comes in number one on the list of most expensive universities in the country and the only one over 110,000 RMB. Art schools tend to be among the most expensive. CAD has different tuition rates depending on the major the student studies. Every year applications pour in from around the country letting CAD remain one of the most selective schools. Since the tuition is so high, many students work while they go to school to cover some of the costs. When Zhang Ziyi was studying there she would dance on the side to be able to afford the high tuition fees. She was even in commercials while she was learning to act, although she doesn't appear prominently.



2) Central Academy of Fine Arts 中央美术学院: 100,361 RMB/4 years


CAFA is the only art school under the direct supervision of the Department of Education and was once headed up by famous artist Xu Beihong. CAFA was also the first art school in China and is on the cutting edge of Chinese modern art. Every year, prospective students swarm the school to take the entrance exams, but many balk at the high tuition fees. In March, a trial entrance exam was given over the course of two days in Qingdao, but only around 2000 students applied. One of the students said that art majors pay 8 to 10 thousand RMB more in tuition, but CAFA is over 15,000 RMB more than normal schools. This has caused many prospective students to go elsewhere. "If you don't have 100,000 RMB when you're going into the school, you're out of luck." With tuition this high, students from the cities are reluctant to apply, much less those from rural areas.


3) Central Academy of Music 中央音乐学院: 99,394 RMB/4 years


If you want to study music in China, CAM is your dream school. But just paying the fees to take the entrance exam can cause students to give up. Zhang Jing, a seventeen year old from Shandong, spent half a year studying in Beijing to prepare for the entrance exam. She spent around 14,000 RMB/month on piano classes, piano practice fees, and music theory classes. Zhang slept on a bed next to her piano. Her parents moved in with their parents and rented out their house to be able to pay for their daughter's prep courses. What happens if she doesn't get in? Zhang Jing only had one answer: "Try again.


4) University of Electronics, Science and Technology of China 电子科技大学: 98,333 RMB/4 years


Located in Chengdu, UESTC was one of China's first seven universities devoted to national defense. Jiang Zemin called it "the vanguard of Chinese technology institutes." Several Chinese leaders in the IT field, including Ding Lei, founder of one of the most popular sites in China, Wangyi, have come out of this school. But if you want to become an IT leader, you'll have to pay the costs. This school is the most expensive non-art school on the mainland.


5) Tongji University 同济大学: 90,625 RMB/4 years


Shanghai's Tongji University is one of the few top schools directly under the supervision of the Ministry of Education. Originally founded as a medical school taught in German, Tongji started charging per credit hour in 2006.



6) Shanghai Foreign Studies University上海外国语大学: 86,219 RMB/4 years


SFSU is the most expensive liberal arts school in the country. In 2006, six students were unable to graduate because they could not pay their tuition.



7) Shanghai Jiaotong University 上海交通大学: 82,400 RMB/4 years


SJU is known as a major producer of China's engineering corps. At over 20,000 RMB/year, SJU is the second most expensive science-focused school in the country.


8) Fudan University 复旦大学: 80,250 RMB/4 years


Fudan is one of the top schools in the nation and has a price tag to match it.



9) Shanghai University of Finance and Economics 上海财经大学: 78,000 RMB/4 years


SHUFE has produced some of China's leading economists, entrepreneurs, and accountants. But with a price tag this high, it seems that if you want to be rich, you already have to have some money to begin with.


10) Communications University of China 中国传媒大学: 75,588 RMB/4 years


CUC used to be known as the Beijing Broadcasting Institute and has long been pumping out many of China's most famous TV show hosts. The students once got so fed up with the way CUC charges tuition that they wrote an open letter to a TV station revealing bad practices within the university.

http://www.echinacities.com/main/Chi...17&pageindex=1

[Haoting]

Tibet University's New Campus 西藏大学新校区

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Originally Posted by Haoting

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For now, that concern is allayed somewhat because many Asian students who earn Ph.D.’s in America seek to remain there to work. But their choices could change as their home country’s economies — especially China’s — mature.

First one is fact, second one is speculation.

[Haoting]

According to Wadhwa's research, a trend of leaving America is just getting started.

My team of researchers at Duke, Harvard and Berkeley polled 1203 returnees to India and China during the second half of 2008 to find answers to exactly this question. What we found should concern even the most boisterous Silicon Valley boosters.

We learned that these workers returned in their prime: the average age of the Indian returnees was 30 and the Chinese was 33. They were really well educated: 51% of the Chinese held masters degrees and 41% had PhDs. Among Indians, 66% held a masters and 12% had PhDs. These degrees were mostly in management, technology, and science. Clearly these returnees are in the U.S. population’s educational top tier—precisely the kind of people who can make the greatest contribution to an economy’s innovation and growth. And it isn’t just new immigrants who are returning home, we learned. Some 27% of the Indians and 34% of the Chinese had permanent resident status or were U.S. citizens. That’s right—it’s not just about green cards.

What propelled them to return home? Some 84% of the Chinese and 69% of the Indians cited professional opportunities. And while they make less money in absolute terms at home, most said their salaries brought a “better quality of life” than what they had in the U.S. (There was also some reverse culture shock—complaints about congestion in India, say, and pollution in China.) When it came to social factors, 67% of the Chinese and 80% of the Indians cited better “family values” at home. Ability to care for aging parents was also cited, and this may be a hidden visa factor: it’s much harder to bring parents and other family members over to the U.S. than in the past. For the vast majority of returnees, a longing for family and friends was also a crucial element.

A return ticket home also put their career on steroids. About 10% of the Indians polled had held senior management jobs in the U.S. That number rose to 44% after they returned home. Among the Chinese, the number rose from 9% in the U.S. to 36% in China.

When we asked what was better about the U.S. than home, 54% of Indian and 43% of Chinese said that total financial compensation for their previous U.S. positions was better than at home. Health-care benefits were also considered somewhat better in the United States by 51 percent of Chinese respondents, versus 21 percent who thought it was better in their home country. (Indian respondents were split more evenly on this).

These were a self-selected group, people who had already left. But what about the future, the immigrants presently studying at U.S. institutions of higher learning? We surveyed 1,224 foreign students from dozens of nations who are currently studying at U.S. universities or who graduated in 2008. The majority told us that they didn’t think that the U.S. was the best place for their professional careers and they planned to return home. Only 6 percent of Indian, 10 percent of Chinese, and 15 percent of European students planned to settle in the U.S.

Many students wanted to stay for a few years after graduation if given a choice—58% of Indians, 54% of Chinese, and 40% of Europeans. But they see the future being brighter back home. Only 7% of Chinese students, 9% of European students, and 25% of Indian students believe that the best days of the U.S. economy lie ahead. Conversely, 74% of Chinese students and 86% of Indian students believe that the best days for their home country’s economy lie ahead. National Science Foundation studies have shown that the “5 year stay rates” for Chinese and Indians science and engineering PhD’s have historically been around 92 % and 85% respectively (NSF tracks these 5 years at a time, and the vast majority stay permanently). So something has clearly changed.

Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/17...dia-and-china/

[orangeearth]

Oh ! I love Tongji University .

[Haoting]

Yale Daily News
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Chinese universities to soon match Oxbridge and Ivies, Levin says

BY BAOBAO ZHANG

Top Chinese universities will rival the Ivy League and Oxbridge within 25 years, University President Richard Levin said Monday during a lecture before the Royal Society in London. But British and American universities should not view the rise of China's universities as threatening, Levin maintained — rather, they should see the competition as a way to improve higher education worldwide, he said.

According to Levin, China has the resources and funding to send its universities to the top of the list of the highest-ranked academic institutions in the world. He added that the British government, which recently cut 950 million pounds from higher education over the next three years, should not fail to recognize Oxford and Cambridge as global leaders in higher education.

To build world-class research and education, Chinese universities should broaden its curriculum and encourage critical thinking, Levin added.

According to the QS World University Rankings, Harvard is ranked number one in 2009, followed by Cambridge at number two and Yale at number three. Eleven of the top 15 universities are in the United States and four are in the United Kingdom. Tsinghua University, number 49, is China's highest ranked university on the list.

Click here to read the full text of Levin's speech, "The Rise of Asia’s Universities."

http://www.yaledailynews.com/crossca...dge-and-ivies/

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Originally Posted by Haoting

Beijing Geely University 北京吉利大学

this university would look at lot more prestigious if it had an eiffel tower and a great sphinx

[Haoting]

Students of Shanghai Jiaotong University Crowned World Champions of the IBM-Sponsored 'Battle of the Brains'



HARBIN, China, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Students from Shanghai Jiaotong University have been crowned the 2010 ACM (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Champions. Sponsored by IBM ( IBM), the competition took place today at Harbin Engineering University (HEU) in Harbin, China, home of the International Snow and Ice Sculpture Festival.

Referred to as "The Battle of the Brains," the ACM ICPC World Finals challenged the world's top 103 university teams to use open standard technology in designing software that solves real-world problems. Each team of three students faced eleven problems of varying levels of difficulty. Framed around IBM's Smarter Planet initiative, the contest problems were modeled after real-world issues such as developing programs which will predict where rain water from tsunamis and hurricanes will accumulate. In five short hours, students solved more than a semester's worth of computer programming material.

The teams were awarded medals based on the number of problems they solved correctly in the shortest amount of time. Shanghai Jiaotong University successfully solved seven of the problems. The World Champions will return home with the "world's smartest" trophy as well as IBM prizes, scholarships and the greatest prize of all – a guaranteed offer of employment or internship from IBM.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...-83641517.html

[dmscopio]

Originally Posted by poptartscrunch

this university would look at lot more prestigious if it had an eiffel tower and a great sphinx

they should build a whitehouse next to it

[Ewan117]

i thought the main building already looked like the white house

[snapdragon]

Originally Posted by Haoting

Students of Shanghai Jiaotong University Crowned World Champions of the IBM-Sponsored 'Battle of the Brains'



HARBIN, China, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Students from Shanghai Jiaotong University have been crowned the 2010 ACM (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Champions. Sponsored by IBM ( IBM), the competition took place today at Harbin Engineering University (HEU) in Harbin, China, home of the International Snow and Ice Sculpture Festival.

Referred to as "The Battle of the Brains," the ACM ICPC World Finals challenged the world's top 103 university teams to use open standard technology in designing software that solves real-world problems. Each team of three students faced eleven problems of varying levels of difficulty. Framed around IBM's Smarter Planet initiative, the contest problems were modeled after real-world issues such as developing programs which will predict where rain water from tsunamis and hurricanes will accumulate. In five short hours, students solved more than a semester's worth of computer programming material.

The teams were awarded medals based on the number of problems they solved correctly in the shortest amount of time. Shanghai Jiaotong University successfully solved seven of the problems. The World Champions will return home with the "world's smartest" trophy as well as IBM prizes, scholarships and the greatest prize of all – a guaranteed offer of employment or internship from IBM.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...-83641517.html

Tsinghua has been so close yet so far,so many times

[poptartscrunch]

Originally Posted by Ewan117

i thought the main building already looked like the white house

you're getting the white house confused with the capitol building in washington d.c.