Yenching Academy
| 燕京学堂 (Chinese) | |
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| Type | Interdisciplinary China Studies School |
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| Established | 2014 |
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Parent institution
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Peking University |
| Dean | Yuan Ming |
| Associate Dean | John L. Holden, Wang Bo |
| Students | 220 (2016) |
| Postgraduates | 220 (2016) |
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Jingyuan Courtyard 3, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, Municipality of Beijing, 100871,  People's Republic of China
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| Language | English (Chinese language study is compulsory for all international students who are placed into one of different levels according to their knowledge) |
| Colors | Red |
| Website | yenchingacademy |
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The Yenching Academy (sometimes abbreviated as YCA, also Yanjing Academy or Yanjing College; Chinese: 燕京学堂, pinyin: Yānjīng Xuétáng) is an elite postgraduate college of Peking University (PKU), located in Beijing, China. It hosts the Yenching Program, a highly selective, fully funded global fellowship program, designed "to cultivate leaders who will advocate for global progress and cultural understanding." The Academy offers Yenching Scholars, selected annually from around the world, with full scholarships for one year of study leading to a master's degree from Peking University, China's "most prestigious" and "first modern" university. At its launch, then Peking University President Wang Enge described it as the "most ambitious academic initiative PKU has launched since the turn of the new century."
Inspired by the classical Chinese academies known as Shūyuàn and the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University (Yenching Academy is called Yānjīng Xuétáng in Chinese, translated directly as Yanjing College), Yenching Academy at Peking University will compete with Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in China and similar global scholarship programs around the world. It is the first such program to launch in Asia.
The Yenching Program—informally known as the "Chinese Rhodes Scholarship"—is a one-year fully funded global leadership program designed to provide outstanding young scholars with a broad interdisciplinary postgraduate education that reflects global perspectives. During their studies, Yenching Scholars will live in Yenching Academy, a residential college of Peking University, built specifically for the program and modeled on those at Harvard and MIT in the United States and Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
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