ZJU International Campus

The international campus of Zhejiang University is located in Haining. It is a world-class campus with state of the art facilities.

Teaching Facilities

The teaching buildings are mainly located in the south and east of international campus. In public areas, there are cafés, snack bars and leisure benches, providing students with space for leisure, extracurricular learning and facilitating interaction.

Lecture Building

Library

Canteen

Student Street

School Clinic

Sports

The International Campus is equipped with an outdoor stadium and a gym in the northeast corner for sporting activities including swimming, basketball, volleyball and soccer. Besides, the tributaries of Juan Lake create a pleasant environment for students to exercise.

Basketball Gym

Swimming Pool

Accommodation

Every residential college can accommodate around 1000 students. The accommodation in Colleges is based on shared flats, with each student staying in single rooms and sharing a flat.

Students of International Campus will live in residential colleges. Each residential college building is able to house several hundred students, and is monitored by a College Dean and a College Instructor. The college is a combination of multiple functions, including accommodation, learning, seminars, catering, recreation, and socialization. The suite-style rooms with shared living rooms and bathrooms allow students to have their independent living space. The multifunctional buildings of the residential college provide students with an intimate and supportive learning environment, promoting their social interaction, study and personal development.

College

Garden

Multi-purpose Hall

Lobby

Single Room

Common Area

Living expenses will be around 20k RMB per year including accommodation. 

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Haining

Haining is located on the southern tip of the Yangtze River Delta. With Shanghai 100 km away to the east, Haining in northern Zhejiang Province is washed by the Qiantangjiang River in the south and connects with Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, in the west.

Haining is famous for its leather-silhouette show (also known as shadow play),colored lanterns, and tidal bore viewing.

Haining has developed as a city well known for its quality leather products.

Birthplace of Xu Zhimo and Jing Yong.

What will I study on BSc Integrative Biomedical Sciences?

Biomedical Science involves the study of the processes that underlie human health and disease and developments in the field drive and guide medical practices.

By introducing and integrating the advanced educational resources of Zhejiang University and the University of Edinburgh, we will build a new type of biomedical education base that focuses on fostering in students an integrated knowledge of the liberal arts, biology and the medical sciences, and endowing them with capacities for scientific and technological innovation and global collaboration, as well as the capacity to lead and realize their ambitions for a better society.

From the professional aspect, efforts will be made to consolidate students’ fundamental as well as cross-disciplinary knowledge, to strengthen their ability to carry out research, and to broaden their minds. Besides, emphasis will be put on training students in the aspect of humanities and social sciences, thus enhancing both their emotional intelligence quotient and their intelligence quotient. Personal guidance for student development and planning the future will also be provided. Based on the potential and career aspirations of the individual students, “personalized” and “diversified routes of the pre-career education will be offered in order to prepare them to become talented researchers and teachers in the biomedical sciences, or specialists in innovation and management in the healthcare and biomedical sciences industries. We anticipate that our students will work in the academics, industrial and administrative sectors after graduation.

The first and second years of the BSc in Integrative Biomedical Sciences provide a firm grounding in the knowledge, understanding and skills required in specialist disciplines of immunology, infectious diseases, neuroscience, pharmacology, physiology and reproductive biology.

In Years 3 and 4, the programme focuses on exploring these disciplines in depth and receive research training in state-of-the-art Biomedical research laboratories in the Joint Institute, labs in Zhejiang University School of Medicine, or labs in University of Edinburgh Medical School. [LP1] 

Embedding of undergraduate teaching within an internationally respected research environment provides opportunities to be taught by world-leading scientists and to engage in work in our research groups.

Innovative Programme

The Institute’s Integrative Biomedical Sciences programme has been jointly designed by senior professors from Zhejiang University’s Basic Medical School and University of Edinburgh’s Deanery of Biomedical Sciences. This collaborative programme, delivered in English, brings together the best of both universities in terms of curriculum and teaching staff. The programme aims to deliver advanced knowledge and academic excellence, alongside an opportunity for student to become a part of the international society, by creating an immersive experience in China while participating in global debates.

Dual Award

Students on the BSc Integrative Biomedical Sciences will be the students of both Zhejiang University and the University of Edinburgh. 

Students who successfully complete the programme and meet the requirement of both universities will receive two Bachelors’ Degrees:

    Degree of Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh

    Degree of Bachelor of Science from Zhejiang University

Scholarships

We provide outstanding students with full scholarships and half scholarships that cover tuition fees and can also provide assistance with living expenses.

World-Class Facilities

The newly built Zhejiang University International Campus has state of the art learning and teaching facilities as well as student-centred support structures. In addition, it provides extensive sports and leisure opportunities, exceptional accommodation and a high-class catering service. 

You will be taught by a group of very experienced and passionate lecturers from ZJU, UoE and the Institute.

ZHOU Yiting PhD

• Principal Investigator, Professor

• Doctoral supervisor, Master's Supervisor

• Research interests：1. Molecular mechanisms for spatialtemporal regulation of myoblast differentiation. 2. Signal pathways controlg tenogenesis of mesenchymal stem cells. 3. Mechanism of osteoarthritis pathogenesis.

• Course：Molecular Cell Biology

ZHAO Jingwei MD PhD

• Principal Investigator, Professor

• Doctoral supervisor, Master's Supervisor

• Research interests：1. The cellular and molecular mechanisms for brain repair after injury or in disease conditions. 2. The cellular and molecular mechanisms for the differentiation from neural precursors into specific type of neurons.

• Course：Structures and Functions of human body

ZHOU Yudong PhD

• Principal Investigator, Professor

• Doctoral supervisor, Master's Supervisor

• Research interests：1. Mechanism of neural circuits for nervous and metabolic diseases.    2. Neural repair.

• Course：Developmental Biology

KE Yuehai PhD

• Principal Investigator, Professor

• Doctoral supervisor, Master's Supervisor

• Research interests：1. Mechanism for cellular signaling and molecular pathogenesis.      2. Disease signal model and genetic analysis.

• Course：Biomedical sciences 1

Hu Hu MD PhD

• Principal Investigator, Professor

• Doctoral supervisor, Master's Supervisor

• Research interests：1. The effects of platelet activated signal transduction pathways for thrombosis. 2. The mechanism for the interaction of platelet and white blood cells and endothelial cells. 3. The meaning for the interaction of platelets and stem cell on stem cell self-renewal and differentiation.

• Course：Biomedical Sciences 2

Wang Lie PhD

• Principal Investigator, Professor

• Doctoral supervisor, Master's Supervisor

• Research interests：Mechanism immune cell differentiation for signal transduction and gene regulation.

• Course：Microorganisms, Cells and Immunity

Yang Xiaohang PhD

• Principal Investigator, Professor

• Doctoral supervisor, Master's Supervisor

• Research interests：Neurodevelopment

• Course：Molecular Genetics

Joanne Fiona MURRAY

• Senior Lecturer

• Research interests：female reproductive physiology

Michael Ian DAW

• MRC Research Career Development Fellow, Course organizer.

• Research interests：Development of cortex in normal mice and models of neurodevelopmental disorders.

Melanie I. STEFEN

• Lecturer and Curriculum Fellow


• Research interests:

1. Molecular basis of synaptic plasticity.

2. Theory of biochemical processes and models.

3. Learning and teaching in the classroom

JOHN R W MENZIES


• Senior Research Fellow

• Research interests: The physiology and endocrinology of food intake and obesity. 

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Reputation of Edinburgh Medical School and University of Edinburgh

Founded in 1583, The University of Edinburgh has been providing students with world-class teaching for more than 425 years. It is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and placed 21st in the 2015/16 QS World University Rankings. The University of Edinburgh is also ranked 4th in the UK for research power, based on the breadth and quality of its research.

The University of Edinburgh is valued and respected in the world job market. It is an excellent training ground for high-flyers and enables students to develop the abilities and attributes that employers want. The University of Edinburgh is ranked 23rd in the world for the employability of its graduates,  and in 2014/15, six months after graduating, 94 per cent of University of Edinburgh students were in employment or postgraduate study.

The University of Edinburgh is also one of the oldest centres for medical research in the UK, and the Edinburgh Medical School is an internationally renowned centre of excellence. Academic staff are involved in cutting-edge, world class, biomedical research, and bring a breadth and depth of research-based knowledge and expertise to their teaching.

Reputation of School of Basic Medical Sciences and Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University (浙江大學), is a national university in China. Founded in 1897, Zhejiang University is one of China's oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher education. It is a member of the C9 League, the Yangtze Delta Universities Alliance and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. It is currently ranked third in China after Peking University and Tsinghua University.

The Zhejiang University School of Basic Medical Sciences has a large number of talented faculty members including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, outstanding teachers of Zhejiang province as well as 82 professors and associated professors.
Researchers in the School of Basic Medical Sciences are leaders in basic and translational biomedical research, especially in oncology, metabolic syndrome, neuroscience and mental illness, medical molecular biology, stem cell and regenerative medicine and genetic areas such as genomics.

The Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute (ZJU-UoE Institute) is a collaboration in the field of Biomedical Sciences between Zhejiang University of China and The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. The two universities are establishing an international research institute at the International Campus of Zhejiang University in Haining, Zhejiang, that builds on the existing strengths of both, and aims to foster collaborations in teaching and research. The Institute will provide undergraduate education programmes that produce students with academic excellence, leadership skills, innovative capacity and global vision.

The first programme offered by the Institute is a BSc in Integrative Biomedical Sciences. This programme will bring students into a scientific field of huge importance in the 21^st century, with global advances in healthcare and rapidly developing knowledge of the human body being shaped by research in biomedical science.

The programme brings together the knowledge and expertise of staff of the Zhejiang University School of Basic Medical Sciences and The University of Edinburgh Medical School. This is a new and exciting collaboration, and the first of its kind for both universities, making this a unique opportunity for students of biomedical sciences. 

An intake of 60 undergraduates is planned in September 2017. Eventually the ZJU-UoE Institute will reach a scale of 600 undergraduates and 300 postgraduates.  

World-class Cooperative Partner

International Campus, Zhejiang University is very harsh on partner selection criteria, and our partners are all from developed countries in the world. According to the requirement of discipline development, International campus cooperates with several world’s top universities and respectively build joint institutes with each of them.

The University of Edinburgh: The University of Edinburgh has a long and rich history as the birthplace of modern bio-medicine. It is a world-renowned center for medical education. The University of Edinburgh is Darwin's Alma mater, Dolly, the cloned sheep’s hometown, the birthplace of the first test-tube baby. Up to now, the University of Edinburgh has produced 21 Nobel Prize winners, 3 British prime ministers, 4 presidents and 2 premiers.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC): UIUC is one of the ten major league (Big Ten) founding members and a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), has been hailed as “public ivy". UIUC is especially outstanding in the field of engineering, which ranks the 4th in the 2015/16 world university rankings. Up to now, UIUC has produced 23 Nobel Prize winners.

World-class Teaching Facilities

The ratio of student-teacher in international Campus is not higher than 8: 1. Our teaching staff is composed of full-time professors, professors hired by two universities, and course professors. International campus employs advanced ideology and administration system for faculty management, and recruits highly talented professionals in compliance with world-class standards. In addition, some of the professors come straight from Zhejiang University and our partner universities.

Students of Globalization

International Campus is a place where top students cluster. A significant number of international students are admitted annually, with no less than 30%. 

Excellent Programs

ZJU-UoE Institute

ZJU-UIUC Institute

Models for Talent Cultivation

Zhejiang University cooperates with several worlds’ top universities and respectively builds joint institutes with each of them. The international Campus fully adopts the partner institute’s policies in terms of teaching staff selection, training program, curriculum, teaching resources, quality standard and safeguarding system. International campus advocates student-centeredness and emphasizes the interaction between teachers and students. All this means students can get world-class education here.

Internationalized Teaching Environment

International Campus provides an ideal place for internationalized teaching and learning (globalization of partners, globalization of teachers, and globalization of classmates); all of the students in the international campus have the opportunities to study abroad, have internships abroad, and join overseas exchange programs.

Residential Colleges

International Campus adopts full residential college system to strengthen students' interpersonal skills, build up their confidence and sense of social responsibility.

Campus Environment

The international Campus strives for building an intelligent Campus; all the facilities are in line with international standards.

Scholarships

The scholarships in the international Campus cover about 40% of the students. The students who ranked the top 100 in the College Entrance Examination of their province (autonomous region or municipality)are eligible for full scholarship directly.

Full scholarships cover all tuition expenses for the 4 years of undergraduate studies.    
Half scholarships cover part of the tuition expenses for the 4 years of undergraduate studies. 

Further Studies

ZJU-UoE Institute: Zhejiang University and the University of Edinburgh started the cooperation in biomedicine since 60% of the 2016 graduates were admitted by world top universities with full scholarships for Ph.D. degree, such as Harvard University, MIT, Princeton University, the University of Chicago.

ZJU-UIUC Institute: UIUC will provide full scholarships (300,000 to 350,000 USD for 5 years) to the top 5% of the graduates for Ph.D. degree.