Foreign Students Booming
This year, universities and institutes in Beijing have enrolled over 80,000 foreign students, following the statistics from the Municipal Education Committee. This number exceeded last year for about more than 10,000 people. So, it is an impressive growth in number.
All the famous universities of the city received flows of newcomers. In Tsinghua University, 1,959 foreign students are enrolled this year. They come from 112 different countries, and more of them are choosing post-graduate courses in the university. In post-graduate field, students from the U.S. exceed the former No.1 – South Korea for the first time. You are not surprised to find a foreign student here with a B.A. in Harvard, Yale or Stanford.
Universities are facing the trend with more flexible measures. Tsinghua University set many English-teaching curricula, including majors like Chinese law, mechanical engineering, business management, architecture and so on. These majors will receive 407 students this year.
Chinese is no longer the only hot major for limited students in China. More Chinese-featured majors are welcomed by foreign students, such as Chinese history, sociology, engineering, news, economics, etc. Courses facing foreign students are also modified to fit the current need, with more Chinese characteristics.
Foreign Students in a Chinese Classroom
