1. Why choose an international campus?

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1. Why choose an international campus?

  • First-class partners

  • The International Campus has almost stringent criteria for selecting partners from many countries with advanced higher education in the world. According to the development needs of the mainstream dominant disciplines of the seven university departments of Zhejiang University, the International Campus selectively establishes a number of joint colleges with the same educational ideals and top-ranked universities in the world to create an international campus with a concentration of the world's top universities.
       University of Edinburgh: The University of Edinburgh is the birthplace of modern biomedicine and a world-renowned center of medical education, the alma mater of Darwin, the home of cloned Dolly the sheep and the birthplace of the first test-tube baby. To date, the University of Edinburgh has produced 21 Nobel Prize winners, three British Prime Ministers, four Presidents and two Prime Ministers.
    The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: UIUC is a founding member of the Big Ten and a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), and is known as a "public Ivy League". "UIUC is ranked fourth in the world for engineering and has produced 23 Nobel Prize winners to date.

  • First-class international faculty

  • In terms of professorial appointments, the International Campus will consist of full-time professors, dual-appointed professors and course professors. Full-time professors are recruited globally according to the standards of international first-class faculty (in principle, they must be established academic masters and senior foreign teaching professors), while double-appointed professors and course professors are mainly from Zhejiang University and partner universities, so students at the International Campus can have zero contact with world-class masters from different countries.
    First-class global students
    The International Campus is a gathering place for students from world class universities, with no less than 30% of the students being international students.

  • First-class advantageous majors

  • ZJU-UoE Institute: Biomedical Science, Bioinformatics
    ZJU-UIUC Institue: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Automation, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

  • First-class training model

  • All the joint institutes in the International Campus are organized by Zhejiang University in cooperation with world-class universities, introducing the partner's faculty, training programs, curriculum, teaching resources, quality standards and guarantee system. The international campus advocates a student-centered approach, with classroom teaching emphasizing the combination of general studies and specialization, and focusing on teacher-student interaction and the cultivation of hands-on skills, so that students can receive a world-class international education at the international campus.

  • First-class international environment

  • The International Campus provides students with a first-class international environment (global partners, global faculty, global classmates), and every student at the International Campus has the opportunity to study, intern and exchange abroad.
    First-class residential colleges
    The International Campus adopts a fully residential college system to enhance students' development and general education and promote quality development.
    First-class environment and facilities
    The completed International Campus is designed as a "campus in a wetland, a campus in a park", with hardware and software facilities that are in line with international standards.

  • First-class financial support system

  • If you are good enough, you will never be denied access to the International Campus due to tuition fees. There are various scholarships available at each joint insitute. ZJU-UIUC Institue will award scholarships of different amounts according to students' academic performance in school, and set up international exchange scholarships to support students to study at UIUC. ZJU-UoE Institute has established academic scholarships to encourage students with good academic performance and overseas exchange scholarships to encourage and fund students to actively participate in overseas exchange and research training.

  • First-class graduation destination

  • ZJU-UoE Institute: 100% of the first class of 2016 graduates have been accepted to graduate schools, with an acceptance rate of 76.5% and a full scholarship PhD rate of 88.24%.
    ZJU-UIUC Institue:96.4% of the first graduates of the class of 2016 were offered graduate school admissions, with a PhD acceptance rate of 55% and a master's acceptance rate of 45%.
    Through your studies at the International Campus, you can expect to receive exceptional value for.
    - Two top degrees: ZJU undergraduate degree + foreign undergraduate degree
    - First-class education in China and abroad: First-class education in China + First-class education in Europe and America
    - International cultural perspective: Chinese and foreign cultural integration + global perspective expansion
    - Global classmates and mentors: global classmates + mentors and friends from world-renowned universities
    - Two language skills: English fluency + Chinese fluency