Undergraduate programme at Duke Kunshan University

Duke Kunshan University, a joint-venture university in China is seeking to attract students from India and other Asian countries, as it starts accepting applications across the Asia-Pacific region this month for its undergraduate degree programme that begins in Fall 2018.

Students from Asia and the rest of the world are “especially welcomed”, said Denis Simon, executive vice-chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, which is “committed to bringing together a diverse cohort of highquality students from across the world.” Adds Simon,“We are building a truly global university in China, which makes us unique in the Chinese context.”

Duke Kunshan is a collaboration between Duke University in the US and Wuhan University in China. Located in Kunshan in the eastern part of China’s Jiangsu Province, the university is seeking to recruit at least 50 overseas students as part of its initial class of 225 cohorts. The university previously only has offered postgraduate courses and a non-degree undergraduate program called the Global Learning Semester.

Russell Davis, Director of Global Student Recruitment at Duke Kunshan, said the university provides students with a unique opportunity to live and study in China and the US while pursuing a programme that culminates in a degree from both Duke and Duke Kunshan.

The undergraduate academic programme spans two continents – in Kunshan and a two-semester experience at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. At Kunshan, non-Chinese students will be required to take Mandarin courses to introduce them to Chinese culture. Davis said that the university would increase the class size steadily . At full capacity, it would have 2,000 undergraduates.

The four-year Bachelor’s programme is based on an innovative, interdisciplinary and integrated liberal arts and sciences curriculum.