Foreign Student Affairs Office

Tsinghua International Alumni

In December 1950, 14 students from Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary were enrolled into Tsinghua University, followed by 19 students from Poland, Czech Slovakia and Hungary in 1951. These 33 students were regarded as the first group of foreign students studying in new China. They studied at Tsinghua University in the Chinese Language Class for Exchange Students from East Europe, and then transferred to Peking University in September 1952.

In the past six decades, Tsinghua University has enrolled a total of more than 20,000 international students from over 170 countries. Some of them studied at Tsinghua for academic degrees, and some took courses or performed research as visiting students. The Tsinghua Garden campus has witnessed the beautiful, vigorous youthfulness of these foreign students, and the Tsinghua Mottos of Self-discipline and Social Commitment have also been imprinted on their mind.

Tsinghua international alumni have distributed in various fields all over the world. Among them, there are university presidents, professors, artists, architects, engineers, government officials, entrepreneurs, military generals, as well as ambassadors and so on. They have been playing important roles in the development of science, technology, education, culture, economy and society of their home countries. Meanwhile, as the bridges of cross-cultural communications, they also make great dedication to the friendship and cooperation between China and the world.

Tsinghua has always paid close attention to the professional development of our international alumni and is proud of the achievements they have made.