Sending Universities

Hunan University  is a member of "Project 985" and "Project 211", which are sponsored by the Ministry of Education of China aiming to become a world-class university. Its Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Industrial Design and International Trade programs are some of its strongest.

Dubbed the province's cradle of teachers, Fujian Normal University is the one of the oldest teacher-training colleges in China and is now a key institution of higher education in Fuzhou. Supporting its excellent academic programs, FNU provides practical on-the-job training for elementary-, secondary-, occupational-school teachers as well as in further-education colleges. With a distinguished faculty often showered with honors and recognition, the university leads the way in research and curriculum development, too, and has experimental pilot programs in distance education and in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University is a public university in Jinshan, Fuzhou, Fujian, China. Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University's library collection contains more than 1.63 million volumes. The university was founded in 1936. It is now known as the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University is public university focused on the development of agriculture and forestry.

A tight-knit academic research and educational institution, Ferris University is known for its liberal traditions and methods in music, letters, and intercultural education. Ferris started life as the first modern institution for women's education, founded for the sole purpose of educating women in the spirit of Christianity. Still a private women's college today, the university follows its "For Others" mission as it works to cultivate graduates who can contribute to the general welfare of humanity by focusing on a broad education as well as specialized knowledge and skills, foreign-language competency, problem-solving skills, and the ability to cooperate and coexist with others.

East China University of Political Science and Law is one of the few higher-education institutions in China specializing in legal education. In this discipline, ECUPL enjoys unparalleled influence and prestige in Shanghai and greater East China, where ECUPL's alumni find themselves in virtually every legal profession and institution. East China's law firms, governmental agencies, courts, and educational institutions owe much to the multidisciplinary university, which teaches economics, management, finance, foreign languages, as well as law.

Highly rated by Reuters as one of the most innovative universities in Asia, Shinshu University takes great pride in its six graduate schools and eight faculties of arts, education, economics and law, science, medicine, engineering, agriculture, and – the only one of its kind in Japan – textile science and technology. The national university actively encourages inter-departmental collaboration through its Interdisciplinary Cluster for Cutting-Edge Research program, which draws together resources in its world-class strengths of carbon science, energy and environmental science, fiber engineering, mountain science, and biomedical sciences, in particular. The success of this cluster has put Shinshu – or Shindai – on the international stage for its pioneering research and innovative approaches to teaching.

Korea’s first national university, Pusan National University’s courses initially focused purely on humanities and fisheries. PNU has now grown to accommodate 15 colleges and several highly regarded graduate schools, where tradition and academic excellence are nurtured. While its mechanical-engineering department is especially celebrated, its education in healthcare, biosciences, Nano-, and biotechnology are also exceptional. Many of its schools have been awarded ongoing government-funded research projects, and the university places high value on research and publication.