燕京学者 (Chinese) | |
| Type | Postgraduate Leadership |
|---|---|
| Established | 2014 |
Parent institution | Peking University |
| Dean | Yuan Ming |
| Associate Dean | Wang Bo |
| Location | , China |
| Language | English (Chinese language study is compulsory for all international students who are placed into one of different levels according to their knowledge) |
| Colors | Red |
| Website | yenchingacademy |
The Yenching Scholarship (also Yanjing Scholars; Chinese: 燕京学者, pinyin: Yānjīng Xuézhě) is a selective interdisciplinary graduate program at the Yenching Academy of Peking University (PKU) in Beijing, China.
The program, started in 2015, will provide Yenching Scholars, selected annually from around the world, with full scholarships for a two-years master's degree from Peking University. The program hosts in its own purpose-built residential college and is designed to cultivate leaders who will advocate for global progress and cultural understanding.
Inspired by the classical Chinese academies known as Shūyuàn and the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University (Yenching Academy is called Yānjīng Xuétáng in Chinese, translated directly as Yanjing College), Yenching Academy at Peking University will compete with Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University in China and similar global scholarship programs around the world. It is the first such program to launch in Asia.[1][2]