Students of the Exchange Programs Share their Stories of Studying in China

10:47, May 22, 2024

The meeting was held as part of the visit of the UrFU delegation to the country

This month the UrFU delegation headed by Rector Victor Koksharov visited China. The delegation included Alexander Ponomarev, Deputy First Vice-Rector, Alexey Fayustov, Vice-Rector for Information Policy, Alexey Klyuev, Director of the School of Public Administration and Entrepreneurship at the Graduate School of Economics and Management, and Nikita Kornev, Executive Director of the Center for China and Asia-Pacific Studies.

During the visit the delegation met with seven students of the Ural Federal University studying under exchange programs at the Beijing Institute of Technology: Ekaterina Terentyeva, Dmitry Muras, Olga Sergeeva, Diana Martynova, Grigory Vyatkin, Artem Popov, Oleg Buller.

The students are from different UrFU institutes - the Institute of Physics and Technology, the Engineering School of Information Technologies, Telecommunications and Control Systems, the Institute of New Materials and Technologies, the Ural Institute for the Humanities, and the Graduate School of Economics and Management.

Students shared their impressions of China, exchange programs, studying in English at BIT, cultural programs, communicating with students from other countries, cultural aspects of China, and their extracurricular activities.

For example, in addition to his studies, Dmitry Muras actively helps international students with their adaptation and participates in various events. He is the main student coordinator for 200 students who come to BIT from all over the world.

Alina Zolotnikova