Beijing Jiaotong University's Weihai Campus Welcomes Its First Graduates as Chinese and Foreign Presidents Jointly Confer Degrees
PublishDate : 2019-06-24
On Jue 23rd, the Weihai Campus of Beijing Jiaotong University, located in the Weihai Nanhai New District, held the 2019 graduation ceremony and degree conferral event. The first cohort of graduates experienced the most ceremonious moment of their four-year university journey. President Wang Jiaqiong of Beijing Jiaotong University and President David Munson of the Rochester Institute of Technology jointly awarded degrees to the graduates.
As an international campus, Beijing Jiaotong University collaborates with partner universities to develop training programs, offering courses in both Chinese and English. Students are enrolled in both Chinese and foreign universities upon admission and receive dual degrees from both institutions upon graduation. The inaugural graduates are from the Information Management and Information Systems program, a collaborative effort between Beijing Jiaotong University and the Rochester Institute of Technology. "This campus is positioned as a experimental zone for comprehensive reform, a demonstration zone for Sino-foreign cooperative education, and a pioneer zone for serving regional development," President Wang Jiaqiong stated during the graduation ceremony, defining the role of the Weihai Campus. Based on this positioning, over the past four years, the National Physics Experiment Teaching Demonstration Center (Weihai) has been established and has become a popular science base and physics teacher training base in Shandong Province. The first graduates are from the Information Management and Information Systems program, a collaboration between Beijing Jiaotong University and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Currently, the campus has partnered with institutions such as the Rochester Institute of Technology in the USA and Lancaster University in the UK to offer seven undergraduate programs, bringing in over 30 foreign faculty members and enrolling international students from 45 countries worldwide.
At the same time, the Weihai Campus of Beijing Jiaotong University will continue to leverage its disciplinary characteristics and technological research and development advantages, strengthen cooperation with the Weihai Nanhai New District, and fully utilize the strengths of both parties in economy, education, technology, and talent to accelerate the construction of a university-local cooperation development community.
