With the remarkable progress of internationalization, NCUE has extended its partner network to more areas around the world. Its partner universities cover 16 countries, including the United States, Germany, the UK, France, Australia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and China. Around ten quality non-Chinese new partner universities and prospective partners are added this year, all of which reserve exchange quota for NCUE students. Thailand, Russia and Spain, in which a new partner or partner-to-be is located respectively, are the countries that NCUE develops a partnership with for the very first time.

Currently NCUE has more than 140 partner universities. More partnership agreements would be concluded in the near future. It is worth mentioning that, among those new partner universities or partners-to-be, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University (LETI) in Russia, which is specialized in electrical engineering and electronics, the University of Jaén in Spain, and King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, which is one of the leading universities in Thailand, are the first in their countries to establish a partnership with NCUE. It is expected that they help facilitate the development of academic relationships between both sides.

Located in Germany, with which NCUE stays in a close partnership, Karlsruhe University of Education has been added to NCUE’s partner list lately, helping connect NCUE to international trends in teacher training. Bordeaux Montaigne University is the other new partner university in France other than the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), offering an option for NCUE students to study in France on exchange.

As for the New Southbound Policy countries, NCUE adds Universiti Malaysia Sarawak and Nommensen HKBP University as new partners. The former is NCUE’s first partner university in Eastern Malaysia, while the latter is the first in Indonesia that provides exchange opportunities for NCUE students. The University of Southern Queensland, the partner-to-be except for Thailand’s King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi in this region, is going to be NCUE’s first one with the university-level agreement in Australia. It is thus evident that establishing partnerships with the institutions mentioned is meaningful.

It is expected that NCUE students’ interest in studying abroad is likely to be largely fueled by the opportunities of exchange offered by all the new partner university and prospective partners.