New | Mainland's first Chinese-Russian university will open its doors by 2015
Teaching courses from Russian language to aerospace engineering, Shenzhen school will train bright minds for both countries
The first-ever university jointly founded by Russia and China will start accepting students next year at its planned campus in Shenzhen, in another project marking closer strategic ties between the two countries.
The organising committee of the proposed Russo-Chinese University agreed on Wednesday to open its doors next year.
A party official from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) confirmed they signed an agreement with Russia to found the school. The Beijing institute will set up the school together with Moscow State University (MSU), according to the website of Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily.
Its 20-hectare campus will be constructed within 10 months, the Russian state news agency RIA reported.
The university expects to enrol 5,000 students in its first year, the report said.
”The detailed plan for this university will only be out in the new academic year [which starts this autumn]. Students will come from both Russia and China,” said the BIT official, surnamed Duan.
Duan added that students would spend their first two years of their course in their home country and the last two years in the foreign country.