Advantages
The International College of Dongguan University of Technology was established in May 2016. On September 18, 2016, the International College of Dongguan University of technology held the unveiling ceremony and the opening ceremony for the first group of foreign students, marking that Dongguan University of technology is the first local university in Dongguan to recruit foreign students.
As a pilot of international education and teaching reform, the main functions of International College include: being responsible for the education of foreign students ( language courses students), establishing foreign language centers, expanding international education cooperation projects of non-degree courses, undertakeing other intra·mural international reform and cooperation tasks.
International College establishes several offices to facilitate and organize daily errands: the comprehensive office, foreign students office, project management office, foreign language center and international Chinese teaching and research office.
International College has thus far enrolled and trained more than 400 foreign students from 40 countries, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Slovakia and Bolivia etc. We have continually cooperated with the Netherlands NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences on the credit mutual recognition minor program in the past four years. International college thrives to deliver assorted language courses including English oral class for staff, post-graduate entrance examination English class (Free of charge), series of IELTS course etc. Additionally, since 2019, international college begins to operate the International Scholarly Exchange Curriculum (ISEC) course in accordance with the teaching and learning requirements outlined by the China Scholarship Council (CSC).
Expand overseas cooperation and exchanges, and form a diversified international university pattern
Up to now, the university has established cooperation and exchange relations with 58 universities and scientific research institutions in 25 countries and regions, such as Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and France.
In 2015, the first joint training project between Guangdong and Taiwan — Yuetai Industrial Science and Technology College was established in Guangdong Province.
In 2016, the International College was established, becoming the first local university in Dongguan to recruit foreign students, with a total enrollment of 402 students from 40 countries.
In 2017, it was approved to establish the joint Institute of Dongguan Institute of Technology and French National Institute of Technology, a Chinese-foreign cooperative educational institution of the Ministry of Education.
In 2018, the International Joint Graduate university was established to jointly train doctoral students with the University of Nottingham, the University of New South Wales, the University of Auckland and other top 100 universities in the world. China has actively participated in the Belt and Road Initiative, and as a co-founding member of the “China-Latin America Joint Laboratory on Clean Energy and Climate Change”, has reached cooperation with eight Latin American universities (research institutions) in five countries, including Cuba and Brazil. Three “Erasmus +” exchange projects have been approved by the European Commission. We have established a number of overseas innovation centers in Australia and Russia, and will accelerate the establishment of innovation centers in Europe.
