History Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

central building, xi jiaotong-liverpool-university, architects: aedas

on september 28, 2004, xi’an jiaotong university , university of liverpool signed cooperative agreement set xjtlu. construction on new university s campus started in august 2005 , university officially inaugurated on may 29, 2006.

more 160 undergraduates enrolled in first year. number has increased total of 9,000 students on campus , further 3,000 @ university of liverpool on 2+2 programmes .

xjtlu’s first batch of students graduated in august 2010 97 percent continuing studies overseas on masters or doctorate programmes, ten percent of whom went study @ universities ranked in world’s top ten (based on university ranking chart times, 2010). december 2010 saw xjtlu invest 6 million rmb in research academic performance. january 2011, xjtlu headed list of top 10 sino-foreign cooperative universities in china.

in visit university on 25 september 2016 uk minister of state universities, science, research , innovation jo johnson mp called xjtlu extraordinary achievement .

funding

the government company suzhou education district investigation (sipedi) has funded of xjtlu s development , continues play large role in success. sipedi has spent around 130 billion rmb on xjtlu, on funding facilities such buildings , laboratories.

context

a number of british universities have set satellite campuses , joint ventures in china, including university of nottingham ningbo china (unnc), overseas campus of university of nottingham situated in city of ningbo, , surrey international institute-dufe, academic partnership institution between university of surrey , dongbei university of finance , economics (dufe) in dalian.

in 2010-11, china third popular destination uk tne students, after malaysia , singapore: , there 36,000 uk tne students in china.

american universities have sought presence in china. new york university shanghai (nyu shanghai) third degree-granting campus established new york university, after new york city , abu dhabi, established in 2012 in partnership east china normal university of shanghai.

however, such strategies have proven controversial. 2007 report, edited anna fazackerley, cautioned british universities must acquire more thorough understanding of chinese higher education policy if succeed in building successful strategic alliances on long-term.