Duke University’s push for a campus in China
Duke University’s plan to establish a college in Kunshan, Jiangsu province was complicated by Chinese students’ belief that the real value of a Duke education lay in studying in the US.
A confidential consultant’s report commissioned by Duke, made widely available online by a professor critical of the Kunshan effort in 2011, said students perceived that foreign universities watered down their academic programs abroad. In interviews with 50 Chinese students at elite universities in China, 40% said they would consider the degree if it were offered on Duke’s main campus in Durham, North Carolina. Just 16% said they would consider enrolling in China but only if the tuition were significantly lower than main campus.
Source: China Daily
URL: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2014-06/06/content_17568084.htm
