CHINESE University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ) ranked first among the universities jointly operated by the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan, or foreign countries or regions, according to the 2020 ranking on the cooperative universities released by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy (SRC) recently.

A total of six cooperative universities are listed in the ranking, specifically (from the top) CUHK-SZ, NYU Shanghai, University of Nottinghan Ningbo China, Xi’an Jiangtong-Liverpool University, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University and Wenzhou-Kean University.

SRC sets two requirements for the cooperative universities to be listed in the ranking: enable students to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in 2018 and have more than 100 teachers on staff.

So far, China sees nine qualified cooperative universities by the Ministry of Education. The other three, Duke Kunshan University, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University and Guangdong Technion-Isreal Institute of Technology, did not enter the list because they failed to meet the requirement for awarding bachelor’s degrees to students in 2018 as they are such young universities.

Arts students from Guangdong Province, with the 2020 National College Entrance Examinations (NCEE) results higher than 618, and science students from Guangdong, with the results higher than 663, can be enrolled in CUHK-SZ. The requirements for NCEE results are the highest among the universities in Guangdong for the province’s students. (Chen Siqi)