Internationalizationof EducationatSoochowUniversity (2016)

Data range: Jan. 1, 2016 ~ Dec. 31, 2016

(extended to winter holiday for datainvolving students)

1.InternationalStudents

1.1 Degree-seekingInternational Students

1.1.1Enrollment &Graduation

	undergraduates	Master's Candidates	DoctoralCandidate
Enrolled	132①	20	12
Graduated	124②	27	3

^{①including 33 double majors fromDaejin University}

^{②including 37double majors fromDaejin University}

1.1.2TotalNumber ofDegree-seeking International Students

	undergraduates	Master's Candidates	DoctoralCandidate
Number	701	62	31

^{①data ofthe fall semester in 2016}

1.1.3GeographicDistribution

	Asia	Africa	Europe	America	Oceania
Number of People	709	60	15	9	1

^{①data ofthe fall semester in 2016}

1.2Non-degreeInternational Students

	Enrolled
Long-term students	1355
Short-term students	762

^{①Data vaild as of Feburary28, 2017}

2.Faculty and Staff Members

1.2International Faculties

Up to now,there are 164International Faculty Membersin 31 schools andscientific research institutions, of whom83 areforeign experts, 65 areforeign teachers and 16 are fromHong Kong, MacauandTaiwan.

1.3Employment ofOverseasEmeritusProfessors andVisiting Professors

By far, 92 overseas emeritus professors andvisitingprofessorsareemployed by 22 schools andscientific research institutions,among whom 13 are fromHong Kong, MacauandTaiwan.

1.4Obtaining DegreesOutsideMainland China

As of now, 489 faculty andstaffmembers have earned degrees abroad and another 414 in Hong Kong, MacauandTaiwan, 433 and 414 of whom are teaching staff,respectively.

1.5 WorkExperienceOutsideMainland

To date, 480faculty andstaffmembers havework experiencein other countries for more than one yearand another64in Hong Kong, MacauandTaiwan, 443 and63of whom are teaching staff,respectively.

2.InternationalCooperation

2.1Cooperation withUniversities andEducationalOrganizations outside Mainland China

As of December, 2016, SoochowUniversity has signedCooperation Agreements &Memorandums with 178 outside-mainland universities and educational organizations,4of which are newly increased in 2016, 1 inPortugaland 3 in Taiwan.

Among them:

Asia:58

including:

Japan:34;Korea:16;Singapore:4;Laos:2;Malaysia:1;Thailand:1

Europe:51

including:

France:13;Britain:12;Germany:8;Russia:4; Czechrepublic &Slovak Republic:3;Spain:3;Belarus:2;Ireland:2;Portugal:1;Finland:1;Belgium:1;Italy:1

America:28

including:

the United States:20;Canada:7;Argentina:1

Oceania:8

including:

Australia:7;New Zealand:1

Africa:2

including:

Nigeria:1;Morocco:1

Hong Kong, MacauandTaiwanregions:31

Including:

Taiwan:27;Hong Kong:2;Macau:2

2.2NewSigning(Renewal) with Outside-mainland Universities in 2016

In 2016, SoochowUniversity signed17inter-universityCooperation Agreementswithoutside-mainland universities, 4 of which are in Japan, 2 in Canada, 2 in the United States, 1 in Singapore, 1 in Britain, 1 inNigeria, 1 in Portugal, 5 inTaiwan.

3.Conferences

In 2016,SoochowUniversity hosteda total of 33internationalconferences of all kinds.

4.ForeignExchangeActivities

In 2016, Soochow University hosted a total of 233 visiting groups(35 of which were fromHong Kong, MacauandTaiwan), and individualvisitors for 1520 times(786 of which were fromHong Kong, MacauandTaiwan).

5.International Exchanges of Faculty and Staff

5.1For the Length ofOverThreeMonths(statistics in 2016)

Programme	Abroad	Outside Mainland
VisitingScholar	54	14
CooperativeStudy	7	0
Lecturing &Teaching	4	0
AdvancedStudy	4	0
Total	69	14

6.2 ForLessThanThreeMonths(statistics in 2016)

Programme	Abroad (person-time)	Outside Mainland (person-time)
AcademicConference	238	49
CooperativeStudy	98	37
AdvancedStudy	2	0
WorkingVisit	72	16
Total	410	102

6.StudentsLeavingMainland in 2016

Programme	Abroad	Outside Mainland
AdvancedStudy	510 （290in the first semesterwhile 220 in the second）	125
Short-termStudy	433	48
AcademicConference	128	0
CooperativeStudy	3	16
Competition	17	5
Total	1091	194