Cooperation between Russia and China in the Field of Bachelor’s and Master’s Training

This article analyzes the experience of establishing Russian-Chinese joint Bachelor’s and Master’s Programs, their modern development and legal grounds.

The author uses the comparative and the problem-chronological methods, as well as such methods as content analysis and event analysis. The author pays particular attention to the training plan, the areas of study and the geographic coverage of joint programs. The author identifies ten different training schemes, showing their development since the mid-1990s. The analysis of the areas of study shows which areas are of most interest in terms of employment for the graduating students and how well they are consistent with the general trends of establishing joint programs with other States. The study of the geography of the Russian-Chinese joint programs makes it possible to set a rating of the Russian and Chinese regions cooperating in this area, to show the degree of their interaction and to also identify the group of universities-leaders in the number of partner universities and in the number of joint programs.

The author draws attention to the problem of the inadequacy of the legal and institutional framework of the Russian-Chinese cooperation in the field of the Bachelor’s and Master’s programs. This paper also provides the comparative analysis of the Russian and Chinese joint educational programs in partnership with other foreign States. As a result the author defines the proportion of the Sino-Russian programs in this field of inter-university collaboration.

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