Seven CUHK-Shenzhen Undergraduate Students Selected for Yale Visiting Student Program

Recently, Yale University announced the admissions results of its Visiting International Student Program (Y-VISP), featuring seven undergraduate students from the first collaborative nomination of CUHK-Shenzhen.

With the signing of an agreement between CUHK-Shenzhen and Yale University in November 2019, CUHK-Shenzhen became one of Yale's partner colleges for the selection of top undergraduate students, and the latter became CUHK-Shenzhen's 100th global partner. As agreed by both parties at the time, the Y-VISP nomination and selection process would be launched in the spring of 2020. In the end, five students from the School of Management and Economics (SME) and two students from the School of Science and Engineering, CUHK-Shenzhen were shortlisted after a rigorous assessment and online interviews, and have received offers to join the Yale undergraduate community this fall or next spring for either a semester or a full academic year.

The Yale Visiting International Student Program (Y-VISP) is an exchange program at Yale which invites top undergraduate students from select partner institutions to study abroad at Yale, including the National University of Singapore, Yale-NUS College, Waseda University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and The University of Hong Kong. Students granted admission to Y-VISP will be entitled to enroll in Yale undergraduate courses, live alongside Yale students in one of fourteen residential colleges, and receive support and assistance from a designated academic adviser. This is a great opportunity for students from all over the world to become fully integrated members of the Yale community. Under the agreement between the two universities, CUHK-Shenzhen students are not required to provide English language test scores and are entitled to a 20% tuition fee waiver.

Data from Yale University shows that CUHK-Shenzhen is second only to Yale-NUS College in terms of the number of admissions. In a letter to the Office of Academic Links, CUHK-Shenzhen after the results were released, the head of Yale's Visiting International Student Program said, "I was pleasantly surprised by the number of students selected from CUHK-Shenzhen, even though it was the first time we had collaborated on nominations. This will be a good start to the future cooperation between the two universities and I believe that students of CUHK-Shenzhen will enjoy this unforgettable learning experience to the fullest."

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the 14 founding institutions of the Association of American Universities. Yale is ranked No. 3 in U.S. News & World Report's National Universities and No. 17 in the QS World University Rankings for 2020. As of October 2019, 62 Nobel laureates, 5 Fields Medalists and 3 Turing Award winners have been affiliated with Yale University as alumni, faculty members or researchers.