In order to further increase the international experience of faculty and students, the university actively expands the channels of international exchange and effectively implements the agreements signed with foreign partners to encourage substantive cooperation.
The university sends students overseas for short-term study and exchange every year to realize the purpose of cross-cultural study and communications. Due to the epidemic, all short-term overseas study programmes have been suspended in 2021 and 2022, while long-term study abroad programmes stayed in normal. The International Cooperation Office facilitates the work of collecting students' materials, translation, visa delivery, academic record, examination arrangement, credit transfer and verification, etc., to provide a good guarantee service for students studying abroad. In the past five years, the university has sent 421 students abroad (see Table 2 for details).
In 2021, the university defined International Vision as its development strategy. The international exchange programmes and opportunities for students will continue to increase as the market demand for international talents and the requirements of the university's international development strategy are fully considered in programme setting, student admissions and university operations. The university’s cooperative programme with universities in the U.S., Germany, UK, Spain, Japan and New Zealand are open to all students. In addition, the university also offers short-term exchange programmes for six months or less each year to encourage students to expand their horizons and increase their international learning experience.
In the next five years, the university will further expand study abroad channels, organize short-term exchange, upgrade academic programmes, and strive to stabilize the number of students going abroad at more than 100 per year. At the same time, the university will steadily develop international student recruitment channels and increase close cooperation with foreign student recruitment agencies or foreign universities to maintain the number of international students at about 50 per year.
