Today@Dal

March 11, 2013, Beijing.

Our relationships with the two universities we visited today differ in their nature. Renmin University of China is the leading university in the country with an emphasis on social sciences and humanities and one of the best institutions overall. For 10 years, they have been running a special program where they teach a basic first two years of an economics program to students who wish to complete their degrees at partner universities outside China. In 2008, Dalhousie became one of those partners.

Today, we met with the 17 students who intend on coming to Dalhousie this September. These students will spend two years in Halifax and graduate with a major in Economics. We took the opportunity to get to know these students a little and enjoyed hearing about their life plans as well as their leisure interests. Dr. Jenny Chen Ni hosted us for a delightful lunch at the campus restaurant before we left to spend the rest of the day with the University of International Business and Economics (UBIE).

Read the rest of this post at the Eastern Horizons blog.