1. Brief Introduction
Houston International Institute, Dalian Maritime University (license number: MOE21USA02DNR20202063N), approved by the Ministry of Education in April 2020, is a Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run school of Dalian Maritime University (DMU) in China and the University of Houston (UH) in the United States. It is an important platform for the integration of higher education, international talents training, research cooperation and people-to-people exchanges between two universities. Introducing teaching resources of the top programs in the UH Cullen College of Engineering and combining them with advantages of the marine programs in DMU, this Institute adheres to the idea of establishing an innovation-oriented and characteristic school to create leading areas of the cultivation of talents in need and the output of China's education management, with open education and subject innovation as its drive, the service to the strategy of building China into a maritime world leader as its guide, connotative development and brand building as its aim, and filling the reserve of marine engineering professionals as its mission.
2. Recruitment plan
The Institute offers three undergraduate programs, Mechanical Engineering (080202H), Civil Engineering (081001H) and Electrical Engineering (080701H), providing four-year full-time undergraduate education, adopting the mode of “4+0” and “Double Degrees”. Each program recruits 60 students by 2020, 180 in total. Specific recruitment numbers of different provinces and programs are shown in the table below.
2020 Recruitment Plan (by Province and Program)
| Prog. |
Sub. |
BJ |
TJ |
HB |
SX |
NMG |
LN |
HLJ |
ZJ |
AH |
SD |
HeN |
HuN |
SC |
Others |
CE |
SCI |
0 |
3 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
12 |
8 |
4 |
4 |
7 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
EE |
SCI |
3 |
3 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
12 |
6 |
3 |
4 |
7 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
ME |
SCI |
3 |
3 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
11 |
6 |
4 |
4 |
7 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
3. Application Requirements
The core courses are taught in English only, which requires candidates to have basic proficiency in English. Candidates in non-English languages shall be prudent. After enrollment, they will receive intensive English learning in the first year, and must adapt to the English-only teaching environment when they are sophomores.
Tuition: CNY 60,000 per student per school year.
Accommodation fee: CNY 1,200 per student per school year.
The institute recruits 180 students totally and each program recruits 60 students.
