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11/24/2024 06:43:35 pm

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Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Produces ‘Global’ Graduates

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

(Photo : Yang Daifu/VCG via Getty Images) Students do yoga during the extracurricular time at No.2 Middle School of Liping County on June 21, 2016 in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province of China. More than 100 students attended yoga exercise at extracurricular time in No.2 Middle School of Liping County in Guizhou.

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University is on a roll, as it has produced an impressive number of students who have qualified to enter the best graduate schools in the world.

One such student is Sun Yuting who is excited to start working on her postgraduate course at Harvard University in the United States after spending four fruitful years at the Chinese university, reported the China Daily.

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"We don't have too much pressure, compared with students at most universities on the Chinese mainland," Sun shared.

"For example, we don't need to pass the English tests that trouble many Chinese students," she continued. "We can indulge in the fields we're really interested in."

"With the inspiring teachers and advanced equipment, you can make great progress if you make an effort at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool," she added.

According to Sun, her experience at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University has taught her adapt to a foreign environment, while enjoying a fun-filled school life.

"We experienced the cultures and environments of both Chinese and foreign universities," she recalled. "It helps me to think and become what I want to be."

It came as a shock to Sun when she learned that three of her schoolmates, who lived at the same dormitory, were admitted to Cambridge University the same year.

"I didn't get very high scores on the Chinese college entrance exam," she related. "One of my high school and college schoolmates, Zhang Xiaoyu, was admitted by Cambridge University and Columbia University to pursue his studies."

"He was excited to know that one of the top students of our high school at Tsinghua University will join him at Columbia this year," she said.

"Many of our students can go beyond themselves after four years at the university," pointed Xi Youmin, executive president of Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

Information from the  Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University show that 80 percent of its bachelor's degree holders pursue studies at foreign universities every year, with many of them taken in by the world's top universities, including Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge.

In 2015, 71.3 percent of the university's students were accepted by the world's top 100 universities, while 21.5 percent of them qualified for the world's top 10.

The Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University celebrated its 10-year anniversary last July 26.


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