Descriptive analysis toward academic research experience by the Chinese undergraduate applicants to the graduate programs in the United States of America

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10.2991/msie-16.2016.96How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Overseas education; Graduate study; Pedagogical methods; Educational resources.

Abstract

As Chinese undergraduates travelling overseas to the United States of America for advanced degrees gains its ground among Chinese students, applicants to U.S. graduate schools are faced with admission criteria heading opposite directions. This paper presents a descriptive study over the academic performance of the Chinese applicants to the graduate programs in the United States, holding undergraduate research experience as the main measurement. Also, disciplinary difference across different majors on undergraduate research has been discussed in terms of pedagogical methods, and institutionalized facts behind the educational resources distribution.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Haocheng Lan
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TI  - Descriptive analysis toward academic research experience by the Chinese undergraduate applicants to the graduate programs in the United States of America
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Management Science and Innovative Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
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