mxtx_hellmounds | University info!

For those that are studying in university. Here is some info in term of dates to follow and also some universities to look at!

Academic Calendar

FIRST SEMESTER (SEP.1 －JAN.13 )
September 1	Registration
September 6-8	Orientation
January 13	Semester ends
SECOND SEMESTER (FEB.18 －JUL.14 )
February 16	Registration
February 18	Class begins
July 14	Semester Ends

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

October 1-7	National Day holidays/Mid autumn Festival
February 12	Spring Festival
April 5,	Tomb Sweeping Day
May 1	Labor Day
June 14th	Dragon Boat Festival

Some Universities to choose from:

Fudan University: is a C9 League University, meaning it is one of the most prestigious and selective in China. It is one of the hardest universities to gain admission to.

Fudan has four campuses in Shanghai: Handan, Fenglin, Zhangjiang and Jiangwan. It comprises 17 full-time schools and 69 departments. It provides bachelor’s and master’s programmes.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University:

As a major public research university in Shanghai and is also part of the C9 League.

The university was a specialist engineering university for many decades. But since it acquired a medical school in 2005, it has developed rapidly to cover a variety of science, technology, arts and humanities subjects across five campuses.

There are now more than 60 undergraduate programmes covering nine major disciplines – economics, law, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and arts.

East China University:

As a prominent research-intensive university established in 1952 and directly authorised by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) has been making every endeavour to furnish itself with world-class teaching and research capacity for the past few decades. It has a strong tradition of working with industries. The university is now developing into a multi-disciplinary higher educational institution with a balanced curriculum of science, engineering, economics, humanities, arts and law spread across 15 academic schools. ECUST has three campuses in the city of Shanghai, providing an academic and cross-cultural environment for about 27,000 students and 3,500 staff members from home and abroad

Shanghai University:

Shanghai University was established in 1922 and, despite its relative youth, was chosen as one of the Project 211 universities – a government initiative to fund 100 higher education institutions to become world-class universities in the 21st century.

It is a comprehensive research-intensive university with a particular emphasis on international cooperation and exchange. Of its 37,000 plus students, 3,000 are from overseas, and hail from 119 different countries. Spread over three campuses in Baoshan, Yanchang and Jiading, the university has nearly 3,000 faculty to oversee its student body.

One of the university’s key features is its library which has over four million volumes. The overall library is composed of three separate libraries with the main one located on the Baoshan campus. This eight-storey building has 38,000 square metres of floor space providing over 1,800 reading seats.

Shanghai is one of China’s leading research institutions and routinely ranks highly in lists of overall research funding. Its research output from its 73 institutes is such that Shanghai has become an internationally recognized research university.

Shanghai Conservatory of Music:

Originally established as the National Conservatory in 1927, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music is one of the oldest music colleges in China. The conservatory offers undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral degrees in a wide range of fields such as orchestral instruments, voice pedagogy, music production and recording engineering. The school also has a large international studies division where international students take short-term music and language courses or students with the appropriate language skills matriculate into classes with Chinese students for long-term research.