During the high-level entrance season, the prospective recruits at zhejiang university received the long-awaited announcement. However, a large number of families have found a huge digital divide in their reconciliation of school attendance: 5,300 yuan per year for some professions and 160,000 yuan per year for others。
The same “zhejiang university”, the cost of four years of study, can vary from a down payment. Where the hell is this high tuition? Does the diploma make any difference? This is not just about economics, but about the future of children。
Behind $5,300 and $160,000 are two cultures
It starts at $5,300 a year, with the vast majority of zhejiang hq undergraduates. This is the state-imposed flat rate for public institutions of higher learning: $5,300 for the humanities, $6,000 for the sciences and $6,000 to $6,900 for medicine. This is mainly for basic school teaching, laboratory operations and teacher remuneration. After graduation, students obtained the most standard full-time undergraduate and bachelor's degrees from the university of zhejiang, which is also the dominant culture in most of the country's 985 colleges。
One hundred and sixty thousand yuan per year is devoted to the zhejiang project, which is officially approved by the ministry of education. This type of project is based on a “4+0” or “2+2” model that is common internationally, introducing a curriculum system of foreign schools (e. G. The u. S. University of illinois, ebbana-champagne branch), with a high percentage of foreign teachers teaching, full english teaching materials and examinations. Upon graduation, students receive not only a zhelong degree and a diploma, but also a bachelor's degree from a cooperative foreign institution, commonly known as the “double degree”。
Does the diploma have the same amount of gold
From the point of view of accreditation, both appear on the internet as “university of zhejiang”, and the certificate does not specifically refer to “chinese-foreign cooperation” or “heining campus”. But there is a division of labour between the two in terms of emphasis on development。
The general profession focuses more on solid foundations and is suitable for students who plan to study and study in the country, or who are candidates, examiners and enter domestic enterprises. In turn, thanks to the full range of english language teaching, the internationalization of the curriculum and the close interface with overseas universities, cooperation projects are better suited to students who have a well-defined programme of further studies abroad, or who wish to enter transnational corporations and develop foreign industries。
Four-year check
The total cost of choosing a general profession for four years is between $20,000 and $28,000, plus accommodation and living expenses in hangzhou。
In contrast, the choice of a medium-to-outside cooperation programme, with tuition costs of $640,000 for a four-year period alone, combined with relatively high accommodation and book fees, resulted in a general expenditure of more than $0. 8 million. If a master's degree is to follow, families will have to prepare hundreds of thousands of scholarships. Thus, economic affordability is the hard threshold of choice。
Avoid error. Reasonable choice
Before a decision is taken, several key points need to be clarified:
First, don't be blind. If the child has a weak english base, or if his/her personality is more secure, a high-intensity all-english teaching environment may become a burden and may even affect academic achievement and self-confidence. On the other hand, this project can provide a good springboard if the child is able to speak english and wants an international perspective。
Secondly, the nature of the school is differentiated. Zhe's high-cost project is part of the formal recruitment scheme, which is fundamentally different from private independent colleges or non-academic training projects in society. Parents must be aware of the admission plan code when filling out their volunteer service。
Thirdly, scholarships are difficult to cover. Although zhejiang has a well-established system of grants, the relatively limited number of special scholarships available to students of co-operative projects in china and abroad does not expect scholarships to offset the difference in school fees of 100,000。
The investment in education has never been “as expensive as possible” but “as fit”. A general specialization of $5,300 per year, based on a deep and deep base, is sufficient to raise the dreams of the majority; a $160,000 project of cooperation between china and foreign countries is an accelerator prepared for a given track。
For families with a hand-in-hand notification, rather than focusing on price labels, it is better to be quiet, combining the child's language skills, character characteristics and family financial planning, and to see which path allows the child to move further and more steadily. After all, the best path is the best one。
