{"id":5649,"date":"2011-08-30T12:12:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T16:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2011-08-30T12:18:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T16:18:07","slug":"chinese-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Universities (\u5927\u5b66)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going along with <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/back-to-school\/\">Steve&#8217;s pos<\/a>t about heading back to school, I decided a post about China&#8217;s higher education is in order. China has well over 2,000 <strong>universities<\/strong> (\u5927\u5b66 &#8211; d\u00e0 xu\u00e9) and colleges, with a total student body population in excess of 20 million. Between 2002 and 2008 alone, the number of higher education students in China quadrupled. In Beijing alone, there are 82 institutions of higher education &#8211; a list that includes a police academy, a sports college, a dance academy, political colleges, and everything in between.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5668\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/gaokao\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5668\" aria-label=\"Gaokao 300x200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5668\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5668\"  alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"140\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/gaokao-300x200.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u597d\u597d\u5b66\u4e60\uff0c\u5929\u5929\u5411\u4e0a - Good good study, day day up!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With more students hoping to enter a college or university than there are open spaces, the admissions process is quite intense and incredibly competitive. The <strong>National Higher Education Entrance Exam <\/strong>(\u666e\u901a\u9ad8\u7b49\u5b66\u6821\u62db\u751f\u5168\u56fd\u7edf\u4e00\u8003\u8bd5 &#8211; p\u01d4 t\u014dng g\u0101o d\u011bng xu\u00e9 xi\u00e0o zh\u0101o sh\u0113ng qu\u00e1n gu\u00f3 t\u01d2ng y\u012b k\u01ceo sh\u00ec), or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Higher_Education_Entrance_Examination\"><strong>Gao Kao<\/strong><\/a> (\u9ad8\u8003 &#8211; g\u0101o k\u01ceo) for short. This exam lasts for 2-3 days, and varies in different provinces. Just as American high school students stress out about the ACT or SAT exam, Chinese high school students feel an immense amount of pressure to succeed on the <em>Gao Kao<\/em>, as their admission into a university or college rides almost entirely on their performance. Some students who fail the exam even repeat their senior year of high school to take it again; others who can afford it simply choose to study abroad, which can cost up to 15-30 times more than in China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kgSILT_d_Bg\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kgSILT_d_Bg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s a short news clip about students getting ready for and taking the Gao Kao exam.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u9ad8\u8003\u5b8c\u540e\uff0c\u5b66\u751f\u6254\u4e66\uff0c\u573a\u9762\u58ee\u89c2\u72b9\u5982\u4e0b\u96ea\u3002\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/evigkHQ4nZg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>And here&#8217;s what students do AFTER the exam.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For those students who study hard enough and have the smarts to actually make it beyond high school, there are many options for higher learning. There are national universities, as administered by the <strong>Chinese Ministry of Education <\/strong>(\u4e2d\u534e\u4eba\u6c11\u5171\u548c\u56fd\u6559\u80b2\u90e8 &#8211; Zh\u014dng hu\u00e1 r\u00e9n m\u00edn g\u00f2ng h\u00e9 gu\u00f3 ji\u00e0o y\u00f9 b\u00f9). These schools are known as &#8220;<strong>Universities directly under the MOE<\/strong>&#8221; (\u6559\u80b2\u90e8\u76f4\u5c5e\u9ad8\u6821 &#8211; ji\u00e0o y\u00f9 b\u00f9 zh\u00ed sh\u01d4 g\u0101o xi\u00e0o). In addition, there are provincial universities that are administered by the particular province along with other public universitities administered by the municipality. Finally, there has been an influx of privately owned and funded higher learning institutiions in the last decade. With so many options to choose from, which institutions are regarded as the best in the land?<\/p>\n<p>Well, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/learning.sohu.com\/dxphb\/\">this website<\/a>, which lists the <strong>100 China University Rankings for 2011\u00a0<\/strong> (2011\u4e2d\u56fd\u5927\u5b66\u6392\u884c\u699c100\u5f3a &#8211; 2011 Zh\u014dng gu\u00f3 d\u00e0 xu\u00e9 p\u00e1i h\u00e1ng b\u01ceng 100 qi\u00e1ng), here are the Top 10 Chinese universities, with their location:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">1. <strong>Peking University<\/strong> (\u5317\u4eac\u5927\u5b66 &#8211; B\u011bi j\u012bng d\u00e0 xu\u00e9); \u5317\u4eac &#8211; B\u011bi j\u012bng<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/peking-university-of-china-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5672\" aria-label=\"Peking University Of China Logo 150x150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5672 aligncenter\"  alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/Peking-University-of-china-logo-150x150.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/Peking-University-of-china-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/Peking-University-of-china-logo.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n2. <strong>Tsinghua University <\/strong>(\u6e05\u534e\u5927\u5b66 &#8211;\u00a0Q\u012bng hu\u00e1 d\u00e0 xu\u00e9); \u5317\u4eac &#8211; B\u011bi j\u012bng<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/tsinghualogo2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5674\" aria-label=\"Tsinghualogo2 300x120\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5674\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/tsinghualogo2-300x120.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n3. <strong>Zhejiang University <\/strong>(\u6d59\u6c5f\u5927\u5b66 &#8211;\u00a0Zh\u00e8 ji\u0101ng d\u00e0 xu\u00e9); \u6d59\u6c5f &#8211; Zh\u00e8 ji\u0101ng<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/31-logo-zhejiang-university\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5663\" aria-label=\"31 Logo Zhejiang University 300x300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5663\"  alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/31-logo-Zhejiang-University-300x300.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n4. <strong>Fudan University <\/strong>(\u590d\u65e6\u5927\u5b66 &#8211; F\u00f9 d\u00e0n d\u00e0 xu\u00e9); \u4e0a\u6d77 &#8211; Sh\u00e0ng h\u01cei<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/fudanuniversity\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5667\" aria-label=\"FudanUniversity\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5667\"  alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"180\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/FudanUniversity.gif\"><\/a><br \/>\n5. <strong>Nanjing University<\/strong> (\u5357\u4eac\u5927\u5b66 &#8211; N\u00e1n j\u012bng d\u00e0 xu\u00e9); \u6c5f\u82cf &#8211; Ji\u0101ng s\u016b<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5671\" aria-label=\"Logo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5671\"  alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"100\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/logo.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n6. <strong>Shanghai Jiaotang University <\/strong>(\u4e0a\u6d77\u4ea4\u901a\u5927\u5b66 &#8211; Sh\u00e0ng h\u01cei ji\u0101o t\u014dng d\u00e0 xu\u00e9); \u4e0a\u6d77 &#8211; Sh\u00e0ng h\u01cei<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/jiaotang\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5670\" aria-label=\"Jiaotang\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5670\"  alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/jiaotang.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/jiaotang.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/jiaotang-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n7. <strong>Wuhan University <\/strong>(\u6b66\u6c49\u5927\u5b66 &#8211; W\u01d4 h\u00e0n d\u00e0 xu\u00e9); \u6e56\u5317 &#8211; H\u00fa b\u011bi<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/u_wuhan-university\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5677\" aria-label=\"U Wuhan University\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5677\"  alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"141\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/U_Wuhan-University.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n8. <strong>Renmin University<\/strong> (\u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba\u6c11\u5927\u5b66 &#8211; Zh\u014dng gu\u00f3 r\u00e9n m\u00edn d\u00e0 xu\u00e9); \u5317\u4eac &#8211; B\u011bi j\u012bng<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/renmin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5673\" aria-label=\"Renmin\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5673\"  alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/renmin.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/renmin.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/renmin-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n9. <strong>Huazhong University of Science and Technology<\/strong> (\u534e\u4e2d\u79d1\u6280\u5927\u5b66 &#8211; Hu\u00e1 zh\u014dng k\u0113 j\u00ec d\u00e0 xu\u00e9); \u6e56\u5317 &#8211; H\u00fa b\u011bi<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/hust\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5669\" aria-label=\"Hust\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5669\"  alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"140\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/hust.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n10. <strong>Sun Yat-sen University\/Zhongshan University <\/strong>(\u4e2d\u5c71\u5927\u5b66 &#8211; Zh\u014dng sh\u0101n d\u00e0 xu\u00e9);\u00a0 \u5e7f\u4e1c &#8211; Gu\u01ceng d\u014dng<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/zhongshanlogo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5676\" aria-label=\"Zhongshanlogo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5676\"  alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"163\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/zhongshanlogo.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I personally have a bias towards the #8 school on the list, Ren Min University, as I teach a Digital Media Production course there. Either way, I&#8217;m happy to introduce an American concept to China while working as a teacher in one of the country&#8217;s most prestigious higher learning institutions &#8211; school spirit! While preparing for the <em>Gao Kao<\/em> exam can be a traumatic experience for China&#8217;s youth, there is still the opportunity to have some fun once they&#8217;re actually enrolled in a university. My students, for example, got to learn about American college life in one class, which included a hands-on practice round of beer pong (with iced tea, of course).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5682\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/dsc_0221\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5682\" aria-label=\"DSC 0221 300x200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5682\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5682\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/DSC_0221-300x200.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Group picture with the \u5916\u6559!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5683\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/dsc_0274\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5683\" aria-label=\"DSC 0274 300x200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5683\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5683\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/DSC_0274-300x200.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beer pong - bridging the gap between East and West!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in studying in China rather than teaching here, never fear, as most of the top universities here have plenty of room for <strong>exchange students<\/strong> (\u7559\u5b66\u751f &#8211; li\u00fa xu\u00e9 sh\u0113ng). If you can&#8217;t make it all the way over here to study Chinese in the Middle Kingdom, at least get started with our Chinese <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/wotd\/today\/chinese.html\">WORD OF THE DAY<\/a>. Think of it this way &#8211; if you learn one new word every day for 10 years, you might even be able to read a Chinese newspaper! \u52a0\u6cb9!<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/DSC_0274-350x234.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/DSC_0274-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/08\/DSC_0274.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Going along with Steve&#8217;s post about heading back to school, I decided a post about China&#8217;s higher education is in order. China has well over 2,000 universities (\u5927\u5b66 &#8211; d\u00e0 xu\u00e9) and colleges, with a total student body population in excess of 20 million. Between 2002 and 2008 alone, the number of higher education students&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-universities\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":5683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[69409,69419,69418,69411,69413,69417,69416,69412,69408,69414,69415,69425,69427,69429,69420,69428,69424,69423,69407,69426,69422,69421,69410],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-uncategorized","tag-gao-kao","tag-huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology","tag-nanjing-university","tag-peking-university","tag-ren-min-university","tag-shanghai-jiaotang-university","tag-sun-yat-sen-university","tag-tsinghua-university","tag-universities","tag-wuhan-university","tag-zhejiang-university","tag-69425","tag-69427","tag-69429","tag-69420","tag-69428","tag-69424","tag-69423","tag-69407","tag-69426","tag-69422","tag-69421","tag-69410"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5688,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions\/5688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}