2 Missouri Universities to Establish Campus in China

The U.S.-China academic building boom continues. This week two Missouri institutions announced that they would be working with a Chinese partner to create a new university in Chengdu, a city of 14 million in Sichuan province. Sichuan Missouri University, as it will be called, is a collaboration among the University of Missouri at St. Louis, the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and Tianfu College. The partnership builds upon a recent agreement between the University of Missouri and Tianfu in which students spend their first two years in China and the last two in Missouri. The new campus follows announcements by Duke University and New York University that they are building campuses in China. After a period of slow activity, the Chinese government has shown renewed interest in the idea of foreign institutions’ setting up branch campuses and joint degree programs in China.