Huaqiao University based in Quanzhou City in east China's Fujian Province, the hometown of numerous overseas Chinese, has offered Master's degree to a total of 30 Macao students in 2002.
President Wu Chengye of the university said at a press conference here Wednesday that the move will partly meet the demand of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) for high-profile people in the process of economic expansion and help Macao's college graduates further enhance their abilities.
Huaqiao University decided to confer degrees on Macao students since they have mastered basic knowledge and skills in their majors, meeting the relevant conditions set by the Ministry of Education on degree awarding, he said.
Since 1997, the university has enrolled a total of 216 postgraduates from Macao, who pursued such majors as economy, enterprise management, computer science and philosophy.
Huaqiao University was set up in 1960, thanks to support from late Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, for overseas Chinese students to pursue further studies in their ancestral homeland. Now it has more than 700 postgraduates.
(Xinhua News Agency November 6, 2002)
