Stanford, one of America's top universities, will open its "branch school" program at Peking University next year.

Around 40 undergraduate students from Stanford will come and take courses by teachers from the two universities for three or four months every year.

Stanford University has been sending students to leading Chinese colleges since 1994. So far, more than 200 students from Stanford have finished their short-time study of Chinese language at Peking University, one of China's most renowned universities, with a history of over one hundred years.

The new program is different from the former ones in that students will be offered a wider range of majors, such as economics and international relations, and the credits they get in Peking University will be accepted by Stanford.

This will be Stanford's ninth foreign branch school, together with those in Paris, London, Tokyo and other cities.

(Cri.com.cn November 18, 2003)