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The program, started in 2015, will provide Yenching Scholars, selected annually from around the world, with full scholarships for a two-years master's degree from Peking University. The program hosts in its own purpose-built residential college and is designed to cultivate leaders who will advocate for global progress and cultural understanding.
The Yenching Academy (YCA, also Yanjing Academy or Yanjing College; Chinese: 燕京学堂, pinyin: Yānjīng Xuétáng) is a postgraduate college of Peking University, located in Beijing, China. It hosts the Yenching Scholarship , a fully funded prestigious global scholarship program, designed "to cultivate leaders who will advocate for global ...
"Drawing inspiration from classical Chinese academy (Shuyuan) as well as the Rhodes Scholars' Program," the Yenching Program at Peking University will compete with the Schwarzman Scholars Program (SSP) at Tsinghua University in China and similar global scholarship programs around the world. It is the first such program to launch in Asia.
Before moving to the campus of Yenching University in the northwestern suburbs, Peking University was based in the "red building" in downtown Beijing. This is a list of people associated with Peking University in China. Several notable individuals have been associated with Peking University.
Yenching University (Chinese: 燕京大學; pinyin: Yānjīng Dàxué) was a private research university in Beijing, China, from 1919 to 1952. The university was formed out of the merger of four Christian colleges between the years 1915 and 1920. [ 1 ]
Peking University (PKU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. It is also a member in the C9 League.
Peking University: 北京大学: National (Direct) Renmin University of China: 中国人民大学: National (Direct) Tsinghua University: 清华大学: National (Direct) Beijing Jiaotong University: 北京交通大学: National (Direct) Beijing University of Technology: 北京工业大学: Municipal Beihang University: 北京航空航天大学 ...
The New York Times adopted "Beijing" in 1986, [6] with all major American media soon following. Elsewhere in the Anglosphere, the BBC switched in 1990. [7] "Peking" is still employed in terms such as "Pekingese", "Peking duck", "Peking Man" and various others, as well as being retained in the name of Peking University.