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3 British Universities in China, Malaysia and Singapore

13th October 2015 Posted by: Francesca Turauskis

FOR many international students, the pull of a British degree is about more than studying in the country. British universities are world renowned for their quality control and traditions of higher education. As well as this, UK universities have more control over the subjects they can teach, leading to a greater choice than other universities worldwide. If you are after this high standard and variety of education a UK degree can offer you, but you are not keen on living so far away from home, you could consider the British universities that have branch campuses around the world.

Singapore's Gardens by the Bay, complete with 'supertrees'

Newcastle University

Newcastle has a world-class reputation and is consistently ranked among the best in the UK for research excellence. It has also received the highest grade for management of academic standards and quality of learning from the British Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA.)

It has now collaborated with the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) to create the Newcastle University International Singapore (NUIS.) As well as that, it is the first UK university to offer medical degrees at an international campus - NUMed in Malaysia. The NUIS offers various degrees in engineering, architecture, and nutrition. The NUMed is based in Jahor, and offers two undergraduate courses: Medicine or Biomedical Sciences. All the degrees follow the same programme as the courses taught in England. Both campuses also offer postgraduate study options, and The Overseas Immersion Programme allows students from both campuses to study at the English campus for part of the course.

Liverpool University

Liverpool is another university with a research reputation. Founded in 1881, the University has over 27,000 students. The first UK Nobel Prize winner, Professor Ronald Ross, went to Liverpool University and today, it has over 1,300 leading researchers. It also has countless partners around the world, including China.

The Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) is a joint-venture university that was founded in 2006 in Suzhou on China's east coast. Suzhou is one of the most developed cities in China, and offers students a unique mix of deep-seated tradition and rapid economical development. In a similar way, XJTLU aims to blend both the West and the East in its approach to teaching. Undergraduate degrees are offered in the fields of science, engineering and management. The university awards both its own Chinese degree and a degree from the University of Liverpool. This gives graduates a global perspective on their subjects and tries to prepare them for “a happy life and a successful career.” The university is growing more popular, and the amount of students is expected to reach 14,000 by 2019.

Ningbo, China, is the home of one of Liverpool's international campuses.

University of Nottingham

In 1881, Nottingham’s first civic college opened and the college became the University of Nottingham in 1948. Since then, many students and staff have gone on to win awards and Nobel prizes. It has recently been ranked 8th in the British top ten research universities and the QAA gave the university the highest ranking.

Nottingham was the first British university to establish a campus abroad in 2000. It now has two branch campuses. The Semenyih Campus in Malaysia has over 4500 students and the Ningbo campus in China has over 7,000 years of history. Both campuses offer a range of courses across disciplines, including art, social science, engineering and various foundation courses.  Also, both campuses are designed to look like the University Park in the UK: There is on-site accommodation, purpose-built sports centres and swimming pools, as well as shops and restaurants. Students get the opportunity to study at any of the Nottingham campuses as part of an exchange. All classes are taught in English, but fees are charged in the local currency.

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)

Originally called the Institution for the Diffusion of Knowledge, The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in Preston was founded in 1828. Since then, the university’s motto has been “ex solo ad solem”, or in translation, “from the Earth to the Sun.” It is one of the UK’s largest universities, with nearly 38,000 staff and students. It is especially renowned for business: UCLan ranked second in the UK for the number of graduate start-ups and has helped over 1,000 students or graduates start a business in the past 5 years.

UCLan is the first UK university to set up a campus in Cyprus. The purpose-built campus opened in Larnaka in 2012, and has modern and well-equipped lecture theatres. The Oceania Bay Village is luxury student accommodation that includes swimming pools and landscaped gardens. UCLan Cyprus offers courses in a mix of subjects, including Business Administration, Educational Leadership and Accounting and Finance. There are some English modules included in every course, and the university can provide extra help for non-English speakers. Prospective students can either apply to UCLan Cyprus, or via the main UCLan process, and there are scholarships available each way.


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