Promotion of Internationalized Education and Research: New
Programs for Foreign Students and Researchers at Tsinghua University
Yunxin Wu
Ph.D., Deputy Director
Office of International Cooperation and Exchange
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
yxwu@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
ABSTRACT
Internationalized education and research have been globally recognized as an
important part of successful higher education in the 21st century. Tsinghua University is
striving to build itself into an open university by massive reinforcement of its
internationalized student cultivation and faculty research. In this presentation, a brief
introduction to Tsinghua University is given, followed by highlights of the international
cooperation and exchange at Tsinghua in 2005. Finally, some new programs facilitating
the study and research of foreign students and researchers at Tsinghua are presented.