DUFE—Surrey International Institute
| 东北财经大学萨里国际学院 | |
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Established | 2007 |
| Students | 1,500 |
| Location | Dalian, China |
| Website | www |
The Surrey international Institute (Chinese: 东北财经大学萨里国际学院) is an academic partnership between the Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (DUFE) in Dalian, and the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. The University of Surrey, Guildford, is one of the UK’s leading research universities. It has over 16,000 students on its campus at Guildford and one substantial offshore presence in China, the Surrey International Institute (SII). This was established in 2006 as an academic joint venture with Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (DUFE), one of China’s leading universities, which has over 12,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students and in based in Dalian in Liaoning Province of China.
SII-DUFE is the first joint venture agreement between Surrey and a Chinese university. It offers international study programmes exploiting the expertise of the two universities in subjects aligned with Business Management and Tourism Management. Students from both the UK and China have the opportunity to spend part of their course at both Surrey and DUFE. For their first two years all students study at DUFE on a mutually agreed syllabus; thereafter for Years 3 and 4 they either move to the premises of Surrey International Institute on the DUFE campus or can apply to take up a limited number of places (currently 64) in Guildford. For these last two years the programmes are wholly under the auspices of Surrey. There are currently around 1,500 students studying at SII.
The institute was established on August 30, 2007 by order of the Ministry of Education's formal document No. 200769.
One key feature of the international strategy of the University of Surrey is to focus on building academic networks and partnerships. The wording of the strategy declares one of its three key aims as being, ‘to give the university substantial international reach through strategic partnerships with quality institutions’. It has therefore established global partnership agreements with a small group of leading universities throughout the world.
The President of DUFE Professor Ai Hongde and the Vice-Chancellor of Surrey, Professor Christopher Snowden officially launched the Institute, based on China's Ministry of Education (MOE) approval. Intake started in September 2007, when SII offered three programmes (MSc in International Business Management, MSc in Tourism Management and MSc in Information Systems).
A number of British Universities have set up satellite campuses and joint ventures in China, including the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, which is an overseas campus of the University of Nottingham, situated in the city of Ningbo in the coastal province of Zhejiang. Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University is an independent university based in Suzhou, China, resulting from a partnership between the University of Liverpool and Xi’an Jiaotong University.
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