Recently, 13 students from the Sino-German School of Design and Communication of Zhejiang Wanli College have received master's offers from nine top global universities, including the University of Edinburgh in the UK and the University of Sydney, one after another. These 13 students from our 2018 class of 2+2 majoring in Exhibition Economics and Management, 2+2 majoring in Visual Communication Design, 2+2 majoring in Advertising, and 2+2 majoring in International Economics and Trade, have locked in the famous schools and got the offers half a year in advance through the excellent results achieved in our school and the cooperative universities in Germany and the U.K. According to the estimation of Zhang Yiping, executive vice president of the school's Sino-German School of Design and Communication, this year According to the estimation of Zhang Yiping, Executive Dean of Sino-German College of Design and Communication, more than 601 TP3T students in the graduating class are expected to go on to the master's level in the world's top universities.
According to Zhang Yiping, Zhejiang Wanli College, in 2018, in the context of the all-round strategic partnership between China and Germany, cooperated with the German University of Applied Sciences for Branding and jointly established the Sino-German School of Design and Communication, introducing the subject curriculum system, professional teaching team and management quality standards of the German University of Applied Sciences for Branding to cultivate internationally competitive brand design, brand communication, brand management, international economy and The school will train internationally competitive professionals in brand design, brand communication, brand management, international economy and trade, and serve the construction of an innovative country.
At present, Zhejiang Wanli College has cooperated with German Brand University of Applied Sciences to offer 2+2 Sino-German Dual Degree Program (English teaching) in Visual Communication Design, Advertising and Exhibition Economics and Management, and cooperated with State University of New York at Plattsburgh, New Zealand Manuka Institute of Technology, University of Paris-East Crédérique, University of Hertfordshire, University of South Wales and other universities in the United States to offer The 2+2 Sino-Foreign Dual Degree Program in International Economics and Trade.
"Students study at Zhejiang Wanli College in the first and second academic years, and study at foreign partner universities in the third and fourth academic years, and they can receive both the undergraduate degree certificate and bachelor's degree certificate from Zhejiang Wanli College and the bachelor's degree certificate from foreign universities upon graduation." Zhang Yiping said.
After three years of development, Zhejiang Wanli College Sino-German School of Design and Communication has realized the in-depth sharing and cooperation between the two schools in terms of teachers' resources, cultural resources and enterprise resources, and built a talent training model featuring "Sino-German cooperation and integration of industry and education", and the admission ranking in the general entrance examination of Zhejiang Province has increased by nearly 10,000, and the student source of the College has steadily improved. The quality of students has been steadily improved; 54 German teachers have been introduced to deeply participate in the teaching of the domestic section, teaching more than 4,000 hours; all professional courses are bilingual and all-English; in 2020, the first batch of students passed the APS audit of the German Embassy in China; 112 students from the 18th and 19th classes of the college have studied in the UK and Germany respectively.
Chen Si, a 2+2 major in Exhibition Economics and Management, is currently continuing her studies at Brand University of Applied Sciences in Germany for the second two years of the 2+2 academic program. After receiving early graduate offers from two world-renowned universities, Bristol University in the UK and Glasgow University in the UK, she shared her experience of studying abroad: "Studying at the Miles Sino-German Institute is international, and studying in Hamburg, Germany, has given me a solid cross-cultural foundation for my master's degree. My major focuses on both theory and practice, and the German University of Applied Sciences features close integration with industry. In the course, it is important to keep up with the teacher's ideas as well as to play with your own ideas, and most importantly, you must think for yourself." In Chen Si's opinion, turning their cross-cultural learning and growing experience at overseas partner institutions in Germany and the UK into a competitive advantage makes them stand out among global applicants, the
The "Sino-German cooperation, industry-education integration" talent training model not only improves students' intercultural communication skills, but also broadens the international perspective of students' professional studies. The four-year curriculum of students under the 2+2 Sino-foreign joint training model has a focus according to the students' situation at different stages. In the freshman year, the students learn English language and develop intercultural skills, and in the sophomore year, the German teaching team and the Chinese teachers with international education experience are introduced to join the teaching of professional courses. The domestic phase of study prepares students for the second two years of study abroad and enables them to adapt quickly to life abroad. In the latter part of the 2+2 study period, the courses of the German branded university of applied sciences in the junior year focus on practice and application, and the courses adopt a project-based learning system, introducing a large number of enterprise projects and real-life practice. Students go out of the classroom to immerse themselves in partner companies, commercial spaces and cultural and artistic venues during their professional classes. In their senior year, students will have the opportunity to enter the German branding field related industry internship, close to learn the German advanced brand design, brand communication, brand management and other aspects of technology and concepts, enhance the students' competitiveness in the job market at home and abroad. (Li Danwei Gao Siyu)
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