In order to encourage international students with outstanding high school background to study in our university and stimulate learning initiatives among all newly-enrolled undergraduates,
2015 HUST Freshman Admission Scholarship Award Ceremony was held successfully on November 27th, in D9 teaching building. Admission officer Mr Ai Xiao, undergraduate student affairs officer Ms Yan Wei，class supervisor of Telecommunication Mr Zhou Hongkuan, class supervisor of Mechanical Design Mr Wei Shuang, and approximately 150 undergraduate freshmen participated in this ceremony.
This year, a total of 25 undergraduate freshmen have been awarded with the Freshman Admission Scholarship, among which 11 winners are from MBBS, 1 from Nursing program, 5 from Pharmacy program, and 4 winners from Telecommunication and Mechanical major respectively. Mr Ai Xiao awarded each winner with an honorary certificate and each student will be receiving 2000RMB subsidy from the university. One of the winners from MBBS program, Mr HENDRIK POOL from South Africawas so excited that he expressed his determination to value the opportunity to study in HUST and promise to repay his parents with outstanding academic performance and never let dearest teachers down.
In a conclusion,fall semester this year a total of 632 international students from 95 countries have come to study in HUST. The scale of international students in our university has further expanded, and the structure has further optimized.
From the distribution of five continents, it becomes more balanced. The number of international students in Asiaincreased steadily, accounting for 55% of the total new international students. In Europe andAmerica, the number also grew constantly, which accounting for 17%.
From the distribution of country, many more countries have involved. Our university has admitted advanced students fromItaly, masters fromFrance, German,Greece,Poland,Australia, etc., and doctors fromSwitzerland,Britainfor the first time.
Judging from the student category, high level students have increased constantly. The scale of high level students, such as masters, doctors, visiting scholars, etc, has further expanded, with a number of 339 and a proportion of 54% in total new students.
Judging from the instruction language, English teaching students accounted for 67.4%. The setting up of full English teaching in relevant departments has played a very important role in attracting international students. For example, full English –medium undergraduate programs in Clinical faculty, Telecom department,Mechanical College,college of Pharmacy, etc, have driven the increase of undergraduate students. In full English-medium program, undergraduate students in Clinical took the first place, masters and doctors in Management occupied the first place.
From the distribution of department, more and more departments have begun to cultivate international students. In some departments which have cultivated many more international students before, the number of international student’s enrollment kept growing steadily this year. Such as, Tongji Medical College, School of Management, Telecommunication Department, School of Economics, School of Public Administration, School of Life Science and Technology, Department of Chinese Language & Literature, School of Computer Science and Technology, etc. The number of international students in some other colleges also began to increase, such as Schoolof Chemistry and Chemical Engineer,School of Journalism and Information Communication,School of Foreign Language, Department of Philosophy, etc.
Judging from the students’ graduation college, more and more foreign famous universities students chose to study in our university, such as students from University of Toronto in Canada, University of Portsmouth, University of Chester, Coventry University in Britain, Technical University Munich in Germany, National University of Singapore, Lander University in Sweden, Politechnika Krakowska in Poland, Waseda University in Japan, Waseda University in Thailand, Ankara University in Turkey, University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Congratulations to HUST! Congratulations to these lucky guys!
