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Donghua University (DHU), formerly China Textile University, was founded in 1951. Located in the downtown area in Shanghai and adjacent to Hongqiao Economic Development Zone, DHU is one of the state-key universities directly under the Ministry of Education of China. Its feature disciplines, such as Fashion Design, Textile Engineering, International Trade, Material Science, and Information Technology have received high reputation both domestically and abroad.

DHU is a multi-disciplinary university involves a wide range of fields such as engineering, economics, management, literature and art, laws, science, and education. It has 16 colleges and schools, offering 50 undergraduate programs, 61 master’s degree programs, 29 doctoral programs, and 5 postdoctoral research programs, among which are 6 State key disciplines and 7 Shanghai Municipal key disciplines. Academic achievements have found applications in areas such as aeronautics, military science, new material, architecture, and environment protection. The number of patents granted and under application ranks the highest among Chinese colleges and universities.

There are more than 3,000 faculty and staff, and over 25,000 enrolled students at DHU. The employment rate maintains 100% for post graduates and over 95% for undergraduates in the past several years. So far, DHU has established cooperation with over 80 well-known oversea universities, research institutions and enterprises. DHU also successfully held international conferences and forums in the fields such as textile, fashion, and material.

As early as 1954, DHU commenced to accept international students who were among the first group of overseas students enrolled by Chinese universities. To date, DHU has brought up a huge number of international students from over 100 countries. Almost all of undergraduate programs, postgraduate and research programs are open to international students. Besides, non-degree programs including Chinese language programs, Degree-Preparation program, advanced study programs, and a variety of short-term programs are available to international students.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Recommended programs: Fashion Design, Fashion Design & Engineering, Artistic Design, International Economy & Trade, Business Administration, Textile Engineering, Information Management & Information System, Electronic Information Engineering, Polymer Materials & Engineering, Energy & Environmental System Engineering, Computer Science & Technology, Digital Media Art, Animation, Technology & Art of Exhibition, Tourism Management, Finance, Marketing, MICE Economy & Management, Mechanical Engineering & Automatization.

MASTER’S PROGRAMS

Recommended programs: Business Administration, Management Science & Engineering, International Trade, Fashion Design & Engineering, Study of Design Art, Textile Engineering, Material Science, Textile Chemistry & Dyeing & Finishing Engineering, Computer Application, Environmental Engineering, Control Theory & Control Engineering, Communications & Information Processing, Biological Chemical Industry.

DOCTORAL PROGRAMS

Recommended programs: Business Administration, Management Science & Engineering, Fashion Design & Engineering, Textile Engineering, Material Science, Textile Chemistry & Dyeing & Finishing Engineering, Control Theory & Control Engineering, Environmental Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Automatization.

DHU has two campuses. The one where ICES lies, the Yan’an Road campus, is in the downtown area. Convenient transportation can bring students to many places in the city: more than 20 bus lines are around the campus, metro station of line 3 and line 4, station of airport bus line 3 are just next to the campus. Bank of China and other banks, visa office, consulates of dozens of countries, Carrefour and other big supermarkets, hospitals and pharmacies, post offices, shopping mall and fitness centers are nearby.

Two teaching buildings special for international students are in the Yan’an Road Campus, including classrooms with multimedia facilities, language labs, multifunctional halls, music rooms and lounges. Located in DHU’s library, Family of International Student is a cozy reading room providing hundreds of books, newspapers and journals for students to read and borrow, Internet service is available as well. Degree program students will receive support from their counselors and mutual aid teams during their living and learning at DHU.

DHU has several International Student Apartment (ISA) buildings. Private bathroom,  furniture, A/C, telephone, TV set, fridge and internet jack are equipped. In the public kitchens on every floor there’re washing machines, electronic stoves and heaters. Single room is CNY 60~90/day, double room is CNY45~55/day/person. Access to internet without time limitation only costs CNY280/semester.

There are several dinning halls on campus, including one Muslim’s canteen. Other facilities to the students are the Student Service Center, the gymnasium, stadium, football fields, basketball courts, and tennis courts, etc.

Donghua University has been appointed the one to accept international students on Chinese Government Scholarship (CSC) and Shanghai Government Scholarship (SGS). Now, a series of President Scholarship has been established to support more excellent international students to join degree programs, besides, DHU also has been approved recently to conduct independent admission under CSC scholarship.

Following are the details of the mentioned scholarships, and we hope our alumni and currently enrolled students will take this chance and recommend more excellent candidates from their own countries.

I. CSC Scholarship

Chinese Scholarship Council（www.csc.edu.cn）takes overall charge of recruitment and management of Chinese government scholarships. Applicants who plan to study Chinese or degree programs may submit the required application materials to ICES before the end of February annually. The qualified candidates will then receive an Acceptance Letter from ICES, which should be submitted together with the other documents to the competent authorities or Chinese diplomatic missions in their home countries within a stated period of time: beginning of January to beginning of April.

II. CSC’s Independent Admission of postgraduate in the appointed fields of study

According to the approval from Chinese Scholarship Council, DHU can independently recruit postgraduates pursuing some appointed majors as CSC scholarship students. 10 quotas available, applicants who don’t need extra Chinese remedial studies are preferable. Applicants must be non-Chinese citizens, and not study in China. The application dead line is May 15. 

Appointed majors:  (1) First-class discipline on Textile Science & Engineering (Textile Engineering, Fiber Engineering, Digital Textile Engineering, Chinese Ancient Textile Process, Textile Materials & Textiles Design, Physics of Fiber Materials, Textile Chemistry & Dyeing & Finishing Engineering, etc.)  (2) First-class discipline on Material Science & Engineering (Material Science, Material Processing Engineering, Material Physics & Chemistry, Nano Fibers & Hybrid Materials, System of Smart Substances, Bionic Materials, etc)  (3) Fashion Design & Engineering

III. SGS

According to the approval from Shanghai Education Commission, DHU can independently recruit international students to pursue their degree programs. Applicants must be non-Chinese citizens and the application dead line is June 15.

SGS includes: (1) A (full scholarship), 10 quotas available, only for those who apply for Master’s or Doctoral programs. Applicants who do not need extra Chinese remedial studies are preferable; (2) B (partial scholarship), 20 quotas available, for those who apply for bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctoral programs. Applicants who do not need extra Chinese remedial studies are preferable.

IV. Excellent New Student Scholarship under the President Scholarship 

It is established to encourage the excellent self-funded international students to pursue their bachelor’s program learning at DHU, the recipients will receive full or partial tuition exemptions in their first semester. 20 quotas are available. Applicants must be non-Chinese citizens and the application dead line is June 15.

Shanghai is China's largest city, one of China's four municipalities. Shanghai is located in the central part of China's mainland coastline and Yangtze Delta, is China's largest industrial base, the largest foreign trade port and the largest commercial city, has more than 20 million population live, and live in Shanghai and the surrounding areas.

Old Shanghai, just a fishing and textile crafts of the town for business. The 19th century, due to the location of Shanghai port edge to the beginning of the story unfolds. 1842 "Nanjing Treaty" after the signing of the Shanghai foreign trade of China's opening up one of the ports, and soon the East and the West due to become the center of trade and rapid development. 30's to the 20th century, Shanghai has become transnational corporations in trade and business hub of the Asia-Pacific region's most prosperous commercial center, known as the "Paris of the East." However, after the founding of the PRC in 1949, almost all foreigners left Shanghai, Shanghai, then decline. After the reform and opening-up in 1990, Shanghai started to reproduce the old downtown, has become today's largest economic center of China and the world's largest trading port.

At present, Shanghai is also a new tourist destination, owing to its profound cultural background and numerous historic sites. But is separated from the river in Pudong, a different showdowntown scene: the Oriental Pearl TV Tower and Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai World Financial Center building common components, such as the world's fifth-largest skyline - Shanghai skyline. Country in the highest building built - on the Shanghai Lujiazui financial district will make the construction of a "goods"-shaped trend of the three.

Today's Shanghai, not only China's important science and technology, trade, finance and information center is an international cultural exchange and integration of the local. Shanghai has developed into an international metropolis, the world's important economic and trading center. Also put forward some proposals for the future Shanghai will become the world's cities. The mainstream international media will be described Shanghai as "the world's fastest-growing economy model."

Upcoming Shanghai China Shanghai World Expo in 2010.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Application fee: CNY 600/applicant. Tuition is CNY 22,000 /academic year (CNY 26,000/acamdemic year for majors relevant to Artistic Design)

MASTER’S PROGRAMS

Application fee is CNY 600/applicant. Tuition is CNY 26,000 /academic year (CNY 28,000/acamdemic year for Study of Design Art)

DOCTORAL PROGRAMS

Application fee is CNY 600/applicant. Tuition is CNY 32,000/academic year for Chinese-taught programs, CNY 37,000/academic year for English-taught programs.