Houston International Institute, Dalian Maritime University (HII-DMU), is officially approved by the Ministry of Education recently. It is a Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run school of Dalian Maritime University (DMU) and University of Houston (UH) that will embrace the first batch of undergraduate students in 2020. The approval of the institute has filled the gap in the aspect of Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run school. It is a milestone breakthrough in the process of further opening the education sector to the world, enhancing international exchanges and cooperation, integrating high-quality education resources, and promoting the internationalization of education.
The institute is an important platform for the integration of higher education, international talents training, research cooperation and people-to-people exchanges between the two universities. It integrates the advanced discipline of marine engineering in DMU with the first program of subsea engineering in the Unites States, setting up three undergraduate programs, that are Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
In 2016, DMU and UH embarked on educational and scientific researches cooperation.
In June 2017, both universities cooperatively established International Collaboration Research Center of Subsea Engineering Technology and Equipment and it was nationally awarded as International Technological Collaboration Base.
In November 2017, DMU College of International Collaboration was set up to push ahead with establishing a Chinese-foreign cooperatively run institute with UH.
In January 2018, both sides formally signed the articulation agreement. DMU and UH carried out joint education for students of all science and engineering programs, covering all levels of undergraduate, master, and doctoral programs.
On September 16, 2019, Renu Khator, President of University of Houston, visited Dalian Maritime University and signed the Cooperation Agreement to establish the “UH Institute, Dalian Maritime university”.
With its approval, the institute will attract and bring in first-class international faculty teams, cultivate outstanding industry talents and make first-class innovative achievements, to help establish the leading position of DMU in the field of international maritime education and promote the university’s “double first-class” construction.
