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Indian students looking to secure cheap Chinese medical degrees will no longer trip over the language question.
The Chinese Ministry of Education has restricted domestic universities from drawing foreign students with promises of “bilingual” curriculums. It has issued a list of 45 universities that teach medicine in English, while directing all other colleges to only offer lessons in Chinese.
China hosted more than 23,000 Indian students at its universities last year, according to its Ministry of Education, a large number of whom, around 7,000, were enrolled to study medicine.
Medical education in China is known to be much cheaper than in India — some courses cost as less as a tenth of those at Indian private colleges — but the 45 universities that offer MBBS in English only have an annual quota of close to 3,400 seats, according to the Medical Council of India.
The remaining aspirants so far found an alternative in 214 bilingual universities that claimed to offer lessons in both English and Chinese.
However, field experts told ThePrint that a lot of foreign students got taken for a ride as they arrived in China to discover that the colleges didn’t offer English lessons at all, or taught disciplines such as Chinese traditional medicine, instead of conventional medicine.
The China government order, issued ahead of the 2019-20 admission season, is likely meant to curb these violations.
theprint.in
The Chinese Ministry of Education has restricted domestic universities from drawing foreign students with promises of “bilingual” curriculums. It has issued a list of 45 universities that teach medicine in English, while directing all other colleges to only offer lessons in Chinese.
China hosted more than 23,000 Indian students at its universities last year, according to its Ministry of Education, a large number of whom, around 7,000, were enrolled to study medicine.
Medical education in China is known to be much cheaper than in India — some courses cost as less as a tenth of those at Indian private colleges — but the 45 universities that offer MBBS in English only have an annual quota of close to 3,400 seats, according to the Medical Council of India.
The remaining aspirants so far found an alternative in 214 bilingual universities that claimed to offer lessons in both English and Chinese.
However, field experts told ThePrint that a lot of foreign students got taken for a ride as they arrived in China to discover that the colleges didn’t offer English lessons at all, or taught disciplines such as Chinese traditional medicine, instead of conventional medicine.
The China government order, issued ahead of the 2019-20 admission season, is likely meant to curb these violations.
Cheap Chinese medical degrees may no longer be an easy option for Indian students
China's medical universities have been a strong draw for Indian students for years with their cheap courses and low threshold for admission scores.
theprint.in
