International Student Recruitment

Recruitment of Foreign Students Studying in China under
the Chinese Government Scholarship Program
Programs and duration of the scholarship
Programs
Duration of
Duration of Chinese
Duration of
specialty studies language studies
scholarship
Master’s
2.5 -3 years
1 years
2.5-4 years
PhD
3 years
1 years
3-4 years
The duration of the scholarship is the same as the duration of studies which is
confirmed when the students enter our university. There is no extension.
International students without any prior knowledge of the Chinese
language can learn Chinese for one year in the School of International
Education at Tianjin University.
Details and standards of the scholarship program
1. Exempt from other fees such as registration, tuition, fee for laboratory
experiment, internship placements, basic learning materials and on campus
accommodation;
Accommodation: Master’s: double-bed room；PhD: one-bed room
2. Living allowance and one-off settlement subsidy:
(1) Standard of Living allowance: (RMB)
Master’s: 1,700 RMB/month; PhD: 2,000 RMB/month;
(2)The new student will receive 1,500RMB as a one-off settlement subsidy.
3. Outpatient medical service and comprehensive medical insurance for
students as required under the Chinese Government Scholarship Program.
Choice of specialty
Tianjin University offers 118 Master programs and 84 PhD programs. Students
must choose their specialty carefully as students are not permitted to transfer
to another specialty once they have accepted their place. Please refer to the
specialties offered at website http://www.ietju.com.
Specialty for Master’s
Specialty for PhD
Qualification for the applicants
1. Any nationality other than Chinese nationals. Applicants must be in good
health;
2. Education and age requirements:
For Master’s applicants: have graduated with a Bachelor degree and be
under the age of 35 (born after 1980);
For PhD applicants: have graduated with a Master degree, and be under the
age of 40 (born after 1975).
Application materials
The applicants must fill in and submit two copies of each of the following
application materials: (both duplicated)
1. Application Form for Chinese Government Scholarship Program
(filled in by typing in Chinese or English, with the photo. The original and a
copy must be submitted ;)
Applicants shall fill in and print the application form after submitting it online.
The CSC Online Application System for Study in China is available at
http://laihua.csc.edu.cn/inscholarship/jsp/student/StudentLogin.jsp.
Our agency number is 10056.
2. The notarized certificate of the highest diploma. If the applicant is
employed a proof of employment is to be submitted with the application.
Documents in languages other than Chinese or English must be attached with
notarized translations in Chinese or English, the original and a copy must be
submitted;
3. The notarized copy of the Academic Transcripts: Transcripts in
languages other than Chinese or English must be attached with notarized
translations in Chinese or English.
4. A study or research plan not less than 800 words in English or Chinese.
All applicants must submit a study or research plan for the study period in
China.
Study or Research Plan for master’s
Study or Research Plan for PhD
5. Two recommendation letters: Applicants who apply for Master’s need to
submit two recommendation letters in English or Chinese from two professors
or associate professors. Applicants who apply for the PhD need to submit two
recommendation letters in English or Chinese from two professors;
Recommendation Letter for Master’s
Recommendation Letter for PhD
6. Applicants for art studies are requested to submit two sketches of the
applicants’ own works.
7. Photocopy of Foreigner Physical Examination Form (The original copy
should be kept by the applicant). The medical examinations must cover all the
items listed in the Foreigner Physical Examination Form. Incomplete records or
those without the signature of the attending physician, the official stamp of the
hospital or a sealed photograph of the applicants are invalid. Please select the
appropriate time to have the medical examination as the medical results have
a 6-months validity.
Foreigner Physical Examination Form
8. Photocopy of passport.
9. Applicants who are not required to study Chinese have to submit us the
HSK certificate. A minimum requirement of HSK4 (Score 180 or above) or
HSK5 (Score 180 or above liberal arts) certificate.
10. Applicants should submit a self-introduction CD. The video must be
recorded in Chinese or English and be less than 5 minutes in duration.
The applicants need to mail all the above application materials to:
Admission Office, School of International Education, Tianjin University.
Application materials will not be returned regardless of the outcome of
the application.
The deadline for Application: March 13, 2015
Both the online application and all the application documents should be
submitted before March 13, 2015.
Matriculation and Notice
1) The application will not be processed if it is inconsistent with the
recruitment requirements or the materials are incomplete.
2) We will view all the application material, and admission is based on merit.
3) We will send the Admission Notice and Visa Application Form for
Study in China (Jw201) to the successful applicants.
Registration Date:
Early September 2015
Contact
Our Address: Admission office (Room118 in Liuyuan)
School of International Education
Tianjin University
No.92, Weijin Road, Nankai District, Tianjin, China
Zip code:
300072
Tel: 0086-22-27406691 (available for English, Korean, Japanese and
Indonesian)
Fax: 0086-22-27406147
E-mail:
iso@tju.edu.cn
Website:
http://www.ietju.com or http://www.tju.edu.cn
School of Computer Software, Tianjin University
Master Program in Software Engineering
The master program is designed to cultivate internationalized and advanced software
engineering talents with a profound understanding of advanced and practical software
development methods techniques, and tools related to each phrase of software development
cycles and to equip students with comprehensive knowledge related to information
technology and expertise in certain specialty.
The duration of full time graduate study is typically 2 years, maximum 5 years. All courses
should be finished within 1 year and software engineering practice should be no less than 1
year.
The specialty of this Software Engineer program is Big Data.
Profiles of Main subjects
Course
type
Public
Courses
Practical
Training
Course title
Chinese Culture
Comprehensive Chinese 1
Foundation of Engineering
Mathematics
Project Management
Java 8 Programming with the
FX libraries
Computer Architecture
Advanced Data Mining, Data
Fusion and its Applications
Practical Project Training
Credit
hours
Credits
Language
60
40
3
2
Chinese/English
Chinese
80
4
English
32
2
English
32
2
English
32
2
English
32
2
English
6
English
2
English
32
2
English
32
2
English
32
2
English
32
2
English
40
2
Chinese
Project Report
Data and Information
Visualization
Algorithmics and Informatics
Specialized Web-based Knowledge
Representation
Courses
Distributed System and Cloud
Computing
Comprehensive Chinese 2
(optional)
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Introduction to the Objectives of main courses
 Fundamentals of Engineering Mathematics
- To have the knowledge of the basic theory of matrix and numerical calculation, the basic
methods of numerical calculation;
- To have a general understanding of the basic concepts and ideas of modern mathematics;
- Enhance the awareness as well as students’ ability of using mathematical knowledge to
solve practical engineering problems.
 Project Management
- Understand the software management process and can challenge the pressure of
software development in a cost-effective way;
- Through the management process a software project or product can be delivered in time
and within the budget satisfied the customer’s needs.
 Java 8 Programming with the FX libraries
- The students would have a fundamental knowledge of the Java FX graphic libraries, and
be able to use them in programming projects;
- The students would also gain an understanding of the fundamental of Java and its
implementation of object-oriented programming.
 Computer Architecture
- Understand how computer systems are organized;
- Be conversant with measures of computer performance and methods for increasing
performance.
 Advanced Data Mining, Data Fusion and its Applications
- Learn about the principles of Data Mining and Data Fusion and its applications in the
data-rich areas.
 Data & Information Visualization
- Learn the background knowledge of data & information visualization technologies in the
context of visual data mining;
- Learn the necessary knowledge of representing and navigating large information spaces;
- Learn the state-of-art visual tools, methods and metaphors;
- Learn how to critique and evaluate the different visualization approaches;
- Learn how to develop new and innovative visualizations to support information
exploration, decision making, data mining and information sharing in a variety of
domains;
- Learn practical knowledge and skills in visualization and navigation for data mining.
 Algorithmics and Informatics
- Be familiar with fundamental algorithms and algorithmic techniques;
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Given a particular application, be able to decide which algorithm among a set of possible
choices is best.
 Web-based Knowledge Representation
- To understand basic knowledge of KR;
- To gain the technology that enables the new generation of the web.
 Distributed System and Cloud Computing
- This course presents a study of distributed systems, which encompass a large number of
topics involving the reliable and transparent implementation of a system on top of a
collection of networked computers.
Introduction to the Faculty
Jianwu Dang (Japan)
PhD from Shizuoka University, Japan
Dean of School of Computer Science and Technology , Professor
Research interests: all the fields of speech production, speech synthesis, and
speech cognition. He built a 3D physiological model for speech and
swallowing, and endeavors to apply the model on clinics.
Kang Zhang (America)
PhD from University of Brighton, UK
Executive MBA, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Adjunct Professor
Research interests: visual languages, software
engineering, information visualization, aesthetic computing and computergenerated art.
Jesse Sheng Jin (Australia)
PhD from University of Otago, New Zealand
Adjunct Professor
Research interests: Multimedia, Medical Imaging, Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition.
Mao Lin Huang (Hong Kong)
PhD from University of Newcastle, Australia
Professor
Research interests: Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Graph
Drawing and Visual Data Mining.
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Dr. Bruce Denby (USA and France)
PhD from University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Professor
Research interest: Speech and signal processing.
Dr. Françoise Soulié Fogelman (France)
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Grenoble, France
Professor
Research interest: Predominantly in data mining and social networks with
big data.
Zhaopeng Meng (China)
PhD from Tianjin University
Dean of SCS; full professor
Research interests: Software and System on Internet of Things, and
Networked Multimedia.
Jizhou Sun (China)
PhD from Sussex University, UK
Professor; former Dean of SCS
Research interests: Computer Graphics, Computer Architecture and Parallel
Computing.
Zhang Jiawan (China)
PhD from Tianjin University
Vice Dean of SCS; full Professor
Research interests: visual analytics and digital culture heritage protection.
Lonnie Heinke (USA)
6 years’ work experience in Silicon Valley
10 years’ teaching experience in both USA, and China
Research interests: Applying the knowledge to crafting games and game AIs.
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Eliza D Karuthudaiyan (India)
PhD from Washington International University
Associate Professor
7 years worked as IT member for International High Tech Company which
executes all engineering phases.
10 years teaching for IT schools in both China and India.
Research Interests: Software Engineering, Systems and OS Architecture,
Software Architecture, and Pattern classification.
Wenhuan Lu (China)
PhD from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST),
Japan
Associate professor
Research interests: knowledge engineering, ontology engineering, and
technology enhanced learning, public services and society.
Liang Wan (Hong Kong)
PhD from Chinese University of Hong Kong
Associate professor
Research interests: computer graphics, including image-based rendering,
non-photorealistic rendering, pre-computed lighting, image processing,
and computer vision.
Highlights
1. High Recognition
School of Computer Software is an international school of Tianjin University which has
gained recognition both at home and abroad. We have been granted by the Ministry of
Education in China as a Pilot School of Software.
2. High Standard Faculty
We have formed a comprehensive teaching system that combines professional and part-time
faculties with high academic capacity, good teaching effect, strong research strength and
English competence, among which we have recruited 4 distinguished foreign experts of the
Tianjin "Thousand Talents Program".
3. Academic exposure & real world insights
Industry oriented, we aim to cultivate international talents with the emphasis on awareness
of innovation, project management skills, comprehensive skills and the spirit of teamwork.
Students are not only equipped with solid theoretical foundation but also practical skills.
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4. Excellent Internship Opportunities
Students are recommended to top IT companies such as IBM, GOOGLE, INTEL, and
ORACLE for internship. Immersed in the atmosphere of advanced technology and
professional training, students will be able to quickly adapt to the work environment and the
rapidly changing industry.
5. China Immersion
We also provide Chinese language and culture classes to help international students be more
actively involved in China and have a further understanding of Chinese culture.
6. High standard and low cost
Though living in this modern metropolis, expenses of this program are low comparing to
other universities in China.
7. English Teaching environment
All courses offered by SCS are taught in English. So there is little difficulty for international
students to understand the courses.
Preliminary requirements for the applicants:
1. Non-Chinese citizens with good health;
2. Possess the Bachelor degrees related to Computer Science or Software Engineering and
under the age of 45;
3. Possess practical programming skills and master certain programming languages;
4. Have a good command of English: shall be able to communicate and read and write
scientific thesis in English.
Application materials
The applicants must fill in and submit the following application materials according to the
facts (both duplicated).
1. Application Form: filled in English by typing, with the photo on;
2. The notarized certificate of the highest diploma. Documents in languages other than
Chinese or English must be attached with notarized translations in Chinese or English;
3. Academic transcripts (notarized photocopy): Transcripts in languages other than
Chinese or English must be attached with notarized translations in Chinese or English;
4. A study or research plan. All applicants need to submit a study or research plan for the
period studying in China, not less than 800 words in English;
5. Two recommendation letters: Applicants who apply for Master’s need to submit two
recommendation letters in English or Chinese from two professors or associate
professors;
6. Photocopy of passport;
7. Proof of English proficiency for non-native English speakers;
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8. Thesis or essays in English have written or published related to Computer science or
Software engineer, if any;
9. Summary in English on all the projects have participated related to Computer science or
Software engineer, if any;
The applicants could download the Application form, Study plan, and Recommendation
letter from the website www.ietju.com.
The applicants need to mail all above application materials to: Admission Office, School of
International Education, Tianjin University.
Address Info:
Admission office (Room118 in Liuyuan)
School of International Education, Tianjin University
No.92, Weijin Road, Nankai District, Tianjin, China
Zip code: 300072
All application materials will not be returned regardless of the result of application.
Tuition and fees*
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2.
3.
4.
Registration Fee: CNY 420 (approximately USD 67).
Tuition Fee: CNY30, 000/year (approximately USD4821/year).
Accommodation: CNY 18, 000/year (approximately USD2893/year).
Medical Insurance Fee: Foreign students who enter the universities of China must buy
the medical insurance offered by China Ping’ an Insurance Company at the same time.
The insurance duration is for at least six months and 400RMB for each person.
5. Other fees such as traveling fee, learning materials fee, etc should be paid by students
themselves.
* The above-mentioned fees are valid only for the academic year 2015-2016 and are subject to
change annually.
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