Such rapid expansion brought concerns about the quality of education”there are only so many professors to go around, after all”so the government began inviting foreign schools to set up educational programs in China. There are now 800 such cooperative efforts, the majority run by U.S. schools. “We were eager to cooperate with Stevens, because China has been a closed society for so long,” notes Xue Wei, the associate dean of BIT’s school of information engineering. “We want to learn from American schools, to have a window to see how they train graduate students.” Yang Jun, an official in China’s Ministry of Education, in Beijing, put it more bluntly: “The United States has the best-quality higher education resources in the world.”
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