Sharing overseas study experience and promoting student exchange programs
In the afternoon on March 17, XJTU student exchange programs presentation and experience sharing meeting was held in Conference Room 101 of the Science Hall. All seats were occupied by more than 400 students attending spontaneously, who listened to the presentation or shared overseas study experiences.
To further promote internationalization process and implement globalization strategy of XJTU, the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange held this presentation meeting for the second time. During this meeting, ninestudents who had taken part in these programs shared their abroad study and life experiences, so as togiveother students a better understanding of the whole process of application,exchange and study.
In recent years, XJTU has carried out suchsubstantial collaborations as double degree, joint training and cooperative research with 135 world-class universities including Harvard University,University of Cambridge, Universityof California, Berkeley, MIT, Stanford University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Milan Polytechnic University. In 2014, a record high of 1,189 students went abroad (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan).This year, from January to the end of February, XJTU launched a program called “XJTUStudents Visiting World-class Universities”, in which nearly 200 top students were selected for a short-term study in University of Cambridge in UK, ColumbiaUniversity in USA, University of Sydney in Australia, Waseda University in Japan and other world topuniversities. Through this program, the width and depth of international cooperation in personnel training was promoted significantly.