Schwarzman Scholars

Schwarzman Scholars
苏世民学者
TypePrivate
Established2016; 8 years ago (2016)
Endowment$575 million
ChairmanStephen A. Schwarzman
DeanXue Lan
DirectorAmy Stursberg
Students100–200
Location
Beijing
,
China
CampusUrban
LanguageEnglish
ColorsBlue, Purple, Gold, and White[1][2]
 
AffiliationsTsinghua University
Websitewww.schwarzmanscholars.org Edit this at Wikidata
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese苏世民学者
Traditional Chinese蘇世民學者
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinSūshìmín Xuézhě

Schwarzman Scholars (Chinese: 苏世民学者; pinyin: Sūshìmín Xuézhě), founded by American financier and philanthropist Stephen A. Schwarzman, is a one-year fully-funded master's degree leadership program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.[3][4][5] The program selects 100–200 scholars per year based on their leadership ability, academic achievement, and commitment to advancing mutual cultural understanding and global progress.[6] Selected scholars pursue a one-year master's degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University, residing at Schwarzman College.[7]

The program launched in June 2016, upon the completion of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University, located in Beijing, China[8][9] and is housed in a college designed by Robert A.M. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. It hosts up to 200 scholars annually from the United States, China, and other countries around the world. Schwarzman Scholars has an acceptance rate comparable to the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships, making it one of the most competitive scholarships in the world.[10][11]

Modeled on the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University and the classical Chinese academies known as Shūyuàn (Schwarzman College is called Sūshìmín Shūyuàn in Chinese, translated directly as Schwarzman Academy), Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University is a competitor to similar international scholarship programs like the Yenching Scholarship at Peking University.[12] Since its founding, the program has maintained ties to the United Front Work Department as well as other organizations and personnel affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party.[13][14][15]

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  9. ^ "College". Schwarzman Scholars. Archived from the original on 30 November 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  10. ^ "Beating the Odds to Become SMU's First Schwarzman Scholar". SMU Newsroom. 3 December 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  11. ^ "Dartmouth students named Marshall, Schwarzman scholars". The Dartmouth. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
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  13. ^ Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany (11 January 2020). "The Moral Hazard of Dealing With China". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  14. ^ "Beijing welcomes scholars funded by U.S. tycoon". Associated Press. 10 September 2016. Archived from the original on 11 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
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