Yenching Academy of Peking University Introducing the 2025 Cohort of Yenching Scholars

The Yenching Academy of Peking University introduces its eleventh cohort: 114 outstanding young scholars who will enroll in the interdisciplinary China Studies Master's program this September. The scholars hail from 40 countries and regions; 83 international students will come together with 31 Chinese students. Through coursework, independent research, and field studies, they will examine China’s past, present and future, with particular emphasis on China’s development and role in the world. The incoming scholars have attended 90 universities, the most represented including the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Columbia University, Cornell University, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, Waseda University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Duke Kunshan University, and New York University Shanghai.

The Yenching Academy of Peking University was established in 2014 with the goal of pushing academic study of China beyond the boundaries of traditionally defined Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines through a specially designed, English-taught Master’s program. Students from its first ten cohorts hail from a total of 85 different countries and regions.

The 2026 recruitment cycle for international, Chinese Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan candidates will be open from mid-August to December 2025. For detailed information, please visit our official website.


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