On March 16, Ms. Ni Ying, Assistant to Dean of Rutgers Business School, and Dr. Liu Xingcai, Director of Rutgers University Beijing Center, visited our Business School. Ms. Li Yuelin, Deputy Dean of NKBS, and the Director of International Cooperation Office met them in Conference Room 818.

      Dean Li Yuelin expressed her sincere welcome to the guests from Rutgers University and her appreciation for their work on the proposed joint education program. She said that NKBS is taking international accreditation as the orientation, actively promoting internationalization strategy, constantly expanding the network of strategic partners and carrying out various forms of cooperation. She is looking forward to the collaboration with Rutgers University to create more exchange opportunities for students and teachers.

      Ms. Ni Ying and Dr. Liu Xingcai thanked our warm reception, and said that they are very delighted to cooperate with NKBS and hope students from Nankai University would come to Rutgers University for exchange and study. For this visit, they would like to further promote the communication among students and faculties of these two schools and the cooperation of professional degree based on the existing cooperation.

      Then, the two sides made in-depth discussions on the cooperation of common interest, and reached preliminary agreement on visiting students, 1+1 for masters, joint education of professional degree, overseas visiting study of professional degree, and other aspects.

      In the afternoon, Ms. Ni Ying and Dr. Liu Xingcai also held a special briefing for students who show interest in the cooperation program, introducing details of such program and answering students’ questions.

      Rutgers University (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), founded in 1766, is the eighth-oldest college in the United States, a prestigious first-class public research university, and the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey. Its academic reputation in New Jersey is just after Princeton University; it is also one of Big Ten Conference members, and honored as “Public Ivy League” by the American society. Rutgers University was ranked 70th in the overall US university rankings according to US News and World Report in 2017, and ranked 96th in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) conducted by Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2017.