Global Comparison of International Education

This chapter focuses on the global comparison of international educationInternational education. The first part of this chapter provides a working definition of international education for this chapter as well as an overview of international educationInternational education in China, and then analyzes China’s education mobilityMobility from a global comparative perspective. Drawing upon statistics generated from government websites, official yearbooks, and academic reports, the results of this chapter demonstrate that China has effectively promoted the development of international educationInternational education and international research collaboration in the past few decades. It also shows that China has been catching up with top universities in the world, in terms of the overseas campusesOverseas campus, overseas research center, exchange programsExchange program, international facultyInternational faculty ratio, international joint publicationInternational joint publication, international studentInternational student ratio, student mobilityMobility, and international doctorate degrees. In terms of the student and faculty-related indicators, Chinese universities still have much potential to develop considering the percentages of international students and faculty in Chinese universities are still low. The second part of this chapter introduces the development of international education in China from four aspects, including best practices of international educationInternational education, stories of inspiring international collaborationsInternational collaboration, latest research in international education, and overview of fundamental and key policies in international educationInternational education. This chapter suggests that the continuous improvement of relevant policies, the strengthening of regulatory mechanisms, and the gradual deepening of China’s international exchanges strategies have jointly promoted the development of international education in China. International educationInternational education has an increasingly important role to play in developing global workforce and facilitating cultural exchanges between China and the world.