Table of Contents
What is a first tier university in China?
1. Tsinghua University. Tsinghua University has now been the uninterrupted highest-placed university in the QS BRICS University Rankings each year since the ranking began. Also ranked sixth in the QS Asia University Rankings, Tsinghua is a member of the C9 League, an alliance of nine elite Chinese universities.
What is a Tier 1 degree?
Tier 1 consists of major private research institutions like Yale, Johns Hopkins and New York University. Tier 2 schools are selective private liberal arts colleges like Middlebury and Vassar. Tier 3 are major public research universities, among them most of the University of California system.
How does China’s education system work?
Schooling in China consists of three years of kindergarten, six years of primary school, three years of junior middle school (also known as secondary school), and senior middle school (high school). After completing these years of schooling, students then have the opportunity to continue to higher education.
Are foreign graduates from mainland China really worth it?
A decade or two ago, foreign graduates from mainland China were rare and highly sought after by domestic and international firms. Good jobs were easy to find and a foreign degree carried a distinctive advantage. Today, it is much tougher with greater competition for jobs despite sustained rapid growth, at least by Western standards.
What should I consider when thinking about Chinese university rankings?
The first point to consider when thinking about Chinese university rankings is that ministry of education officials have been fairly consistent in their opposition to university rankings.
Is China now training more PhD students than the US?
Consider that China is now training more PhD students than the U.S., and that in 2018 the number of scientific, technical, and medical research papers published by Chinese researchers exceeded for the first time those produced by U.S. scholars.
Why do international students choose China for study?
In fact, Chinese universities’ quality improvements and other factors have helped turn China itself into an important destination country of international students from Asia, Africa, and elsewhere.