Lingnan University welcomes students from all over the world to its internationalised liberal arts campus

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Lingnan University held its 2017/18 Inauguration Ceremony in early September to mark the beginning of the new academic year, and welcome new local students as well as those from around the world.

The University scored encouraging undergraduate admission results for the 2017/18 academic year.  About 57,000 applications for admission to its undergraduate programmes were received, with the numbers of non-JUPAS and Mainland student applications increased notably by 4.2% and 52.7% respectively compared with last year. About 30 different nationalities are now represented in the student population on campus.  The growing internationalised background of Lingnan students truly reflects the University’s leading position in liberal arts education in Asia.

One of the key characteristics of Lingnan University’s liberal arts education is to broaden students’ international exposure.  Therefore the University spares no effort in lifting the level of internatioanlisation of its students.  Currently one-seventh of Lingnan’s student population is non-local full-programme or semester-long exchange students.  About 90% of the University’s undergraduates are able to go on exchange for a semester or attend summer programmes.  A variety of scholarships are available to local and non-local undergraduates.

In the approximately 600 new undergraduate students of Lingnan this year, about 10% are non-local students.  Non-local undergraduate students currently studying at the University come from 11 countries or regions including Bangladesh, Canada, Mainland China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Taiwan, USA and Vietnam.  For the new research postgraduate and taught postgraduate students, the proportions of non-local students are 66% and 87% respectively.  An internationalised student body is instrumental in strengthening students’ learning experience and horizon.

Furthermore, about 160 overseas students will come to Lingnan for exchange in the first semester of the 2017/18 academic year.  These overseas students come from 25 countries or regions from all corners of the world.  They bring diversified cultures to the internationalised liberal arts campus of Lingnan, and provide opportunities for students to exchange and build friendship with young people of different nationalities and ethnicities.