University students in China are getting education from competitive global schools. (Photo : Getty Images)

One of the countries' small universities, the China Foreign Affairs University is gaining recognition as an influential school for studying diplomatic relations, as well as other schools for police training and medicine.



The C.F.A.U. is located in Beijing and has about 2,000 students. Most of China's diplomats are graduates of the university.




Also called the "Cradle of China's Diplomats," the C.F.A.U. has a strong international relations program. It has 9 faculties and a select few students.



According to the website of the China Scholarship Council, "The strong subjects of CFAU are Diplomacy, International Relations, and International Law. Over the past 50 years, China Foreign Affairs University has turned out nearly 20,000 students, who have excelled in the fields of Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, and International Studies, and have made tremendous contributions to China's diplomacy."



Another small university that is well-equipped to train police officers is the People's Public Security University of China (P.P.S.U.C.). Graduates of the school enter the Ministry of Public Security.



The university has a law school, department of foreign languages, literature, criminal investigation, criminology, management, information security, traffic control, and forensic science. There were several graduates who went overseas as U.N. peacekeepers.



The Peking Union Medical College is a small school but is considered the best medical school in China. It was established by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1917.



The Rockefeller Foundation used American methods and standards in building the school. The design of medical training is similar to John Hopkins University School of Medicine.



According to the foundation, "The Foundation's approach to Chinese medical education would inevitably follow the general patterns for reforming U.S. medical education advocated in the 1910 Flexner report and most fully embodied in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Medical education in China would be scientifically rigorous and adhere to Western standards."

