UM signed a graduate student cooperation agreement with the University of California, Berkeley, USA. The two parties will unfold a graduate student exchange programme in a variety of disciplines between the two universities, which might lead to extensive collaboration on education, culture and academic research activities in the future. The newly established agreement represents a step forward in the academic partnership of the two universities.
The University of California, Berkeley, the new partner of UM, is a renowned state-funded university in the US, which rides high in recognized world university rankings. The university was founded in the nineteenth century, comprising fourteen colleges and about thirty-three thousand students in total, with almost ten thousand graduate students included.
The agreement promised mutual exchanges of teaching staff, researchers and graduate students, as well as collaborations on academic seminars and research projects. Each year, UM will send four teaching staff, researchers and graduate students to the UC Berkeley for one-year study and research. Under the agreement, the academic staff and students in UM are entitled to the opportunities to collaborate with leading scholars and researchers in the world.
Until now, UM has established agreements with more than one hundred academic institutions, including Cambridge University, Harvard Medical School, the University of Tokyo and Keio University, Coimbra University, Peking University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University and etc. In 2004, UM signed an agreement with Harvard Medical School, unfolding exchanges and cooperation with first-rank universities at the graduate level. Under that agreement, UM arranges graduate and postgraduate students to carry out exchanges and research in Harvard Medical School.