WXUT's School of International Education hosts a homecoming session to help current international students plan their studies and aim higher.
On the morning of November 7, the School of International Education of Wuxi University of Technology (WXUT) hosted an alumni sharing session under the theme "From Wuxi to the World," inviting three outstanding international graduates — He Sama, Gu Moran and Su Qian — back to campus to talk about their years of study and life in China and to encourage current international students to work hard at their Chinese and plan their academic path.
Speaking in turn, the three alumni traced very different routes out of Wuxi. He Sama, who graduated in 2018, described how he went on from WXUT to a doctoral programme in business administration at Southwest Jiaotong University on a Chinese Government Scholarship, and explained why he chose to return to full-time study after working in China. Gu Moran, a 2019 graduate, shared his experience of earning a master's degree in artificial intelligence at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology as a Jiangsu Government Scholarship recipient, and talked with students about how to choose a major and map out their academic progress. Su Qian, also a 2019 graduate, drew on her master's in management science and engineering at Jiangsu University, funded by the same provincial scholarship, to show how passing HSK Level 6 and strengthening her Chinese have paid off in both her studies and her career.
The Q&A session that followed was lively, with current students pressing the alumni on Chinese-language learning, scholarship applications and choice of major.
The session worked on two levels: as an inspiring lesson in what former students have achieved, and as part of the school's wider effort to keep in touch with its overseas graduates. For students still on campus, the three alumni offered visible proof that a Wuxi start can lead to a China-wide career; for the school, the event opened a channel of communication with alumni abroad and brought alumni resources into its work, laying useful groundwork for a lasting overseas alumni network and for deeper development of its international student education. The School of International Education plans to build on the occasion to further improve its alumni work and to support high-quality development in international education and the university's internationalisation.
(Written by Sun Taiwei; photos by Wang Jiawen; reviewed by Li Xiang, School of International Education)
Alumni Share Their Experiences at the Session
Alumni and Students Together at the Close of the Event
The Three Returning Alumni: He Sama, Gu Moran and Su Qian
