INTERNATIONAL DUAL DEGREE PROGRAM

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INTERNATIONAL DUAL DEGREE PROGRAM

• Presented by
• Wei-Jao Chen, MD.MPH.DMSc.
• President of National Taiwan University
• June 25th, 2004

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Introduction

• The aim of this program
• The Requirements
• The content of the agreements
• Cultural Studies
• Current Progress
• Future Prospect
• Conclusion

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A. Aim of the program

• NTU has established this program officially
• since 2002. The main purpose
• of the program is to
• 1. Cultivate more internationalized students
• 2. Activate the academic cooperation

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B. Requirements

• The participants of this program have to fulfill
  the
• following requirements of a certain period of
  time to
• pursue their academic studies before and after
  going
• abroad.
• 1. Students with bachelor program will have to
  pursue academic studies of bachelor program in
  NTU at least four semesters
• 2. Students with Master program will have to
  fulfill the requirements in NTU at least two
  semesters
• 3. Students with PhD program will have to pursue
  academic studies of PhD in NTU at least four
  semesters

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C. Content of the agreements

• I. The content of the general agreement
• (for bachelor, master, PhD program)
  between two universities includes the following
• 1. Eligibility of application
• 2. Evaluation standard
• 3. Design of linked curriculums
• 4. Credit transfer
• 5. Period of study
• 6. Degrees offering
• 7. Academic status management of registration
• 8. Fees submission and quota
• 9. Guideline of amendment and termination of the
  agreement
• 10. Common instruction agreement of master and
  PhD dissertation
• 11. Others

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C. Content of the agreements (Cont)

• II. Common instruction agreement of the master
  and PhD dissertation should consist the
  following
• 1. Name of the postgraduate
• 2. Name of instructing professors
• 3. Theme of the thesis
• 4. Period of study in both universities
• 5. Language used for writing the dissertation
• 6. Constitution of Degree Examination Committee
  and methods of proceeding interview
• 7. Presentation and copy rights of master and PhD
  dissertation
• 8. Guideline of amendment an termination of the
  agreement
• 9. Others

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D. Culture studies

• The importance of the culture and local
• language courses
• These courses may enrich the students
  experiences as exchange students
• These course are the essential purpose of broaden
  their view internationally

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E. Current Progress

• 1. Nominated two PhD. Students to our partner
  school, luniversite Josepah Fourier (Grenoble
  1st) the result of the program is fabulous.
• a. These two students will receive PhD from
  both
• universities successfully
• b. This program has strengthen and activated
  the
• academic exchanges link between the two
  school
• substantially
• 2. We are discussing with some prestigious
  universities over the world aggressively, such as
  Waseda University in Japan, and University of
  Wales Bangor in England.

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F. Future Prospective

• 1. The dual degree program is one step further
  from the regular exchange student program, which
  provides the students another great chance to
  study abroad.
• 2. The students may gain both the professional
  knowledge and abundant culture experience.
• 3. That may definitely lead and assist them to
  realize the idea of global village of the 21st
  Century.

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G. Conclusion

• For the sake of more internationalized students,
  we recommend and encourage APRU member
  universities to implement
• the dual degree program, which will
• enhance the academic cooperation and exchanges
  of the higher education internationalization.

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Thank you very much for your kind
attention!