East China University of Science and Technology is a public research university located in Shanghai, China. Originally established with a focus on chemical technology, it has evolved into a comprehensive university that covers all academic disciplines and offers a large variety of majors. It is a Chinese Ministry of Education Double First-Class Discipline University, with Double First-Class status in certain disciplines. The school encompasses two campuses and a science park in the Xuhui, Fengxian, and Jinshan districts of Shanghai.

JMD at a Glance

• We're proud to be a world-leading higher education institution in China to launch the very pioneering “Joint Multi-Degree (JMD) Programme” which opens up global study hubs for future leaders, dedicated to the delivery of an exclusive university pathway for international students across the world. What makes this programme unique is down to three key components: faster, better, and stronger. We believe that this approach would give you an unrivaled study experience and the best chance of a successful career upon graduation

• FASTER: JMD is designed to offer a time- and cost-efficient programme that enables you to complete more degrees within a shorter duration. It takes only 4 years to get 3 degrees including two Bachelor Degrees:one from ECUST and one from a chosen JMD partner university, plus one optional Master Degree from any chosen university in the JMD-bridged country.

• BETTER: By building partnerships with prestigious partners in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia around the globe, JMD Programme also provides an exclusive solution for students not only to get more degrees, but also to obtain more invaluable opportunities to develop and share global perspectives.You can benefit from the internationally informed curricula as well as multicultural environments to live and learn in. This programme also facilitate the world-leading research that takes place at ECUST.

• STRONGER: JMD Programme is committed to building an elite education pathway to equip you with stronger knowledge, skills and attributes to be globally employable and to make a positive contribution to the world, by leveraging the merits of leading Eastern and Western institutions. You will be provided with the most cutting-edge knowledge, international outlook as well as practical experience in a real-life context, which would secure you a successful career upon graduation.

I. Academic Highlights

• The programme in Visual Communication Design seeks to develop exceptional, internationally focused, application-focused creative talents in visual design. While fostering students' design skills, it also considers the development of design concepts and methodologies, the accumulation of professional knowledge, the evolution of The Times, the highlighting of the qualities of brand visual design, and the bolstering of industry-university-research cooperation, disciplinary innovation integration, and practice.

• Teaching specialization in visual communication design integrates classroom instruction with extracurricular activities in a dialectic manner, emphasizing the progressive and multiple knowledge structure.

• The construction focuses on fostering students' creativity and practice ability, interdisciplinary integration ability, and independent thinking ability. It does this by leveraging Shanghai's advantage as an international metropolis, the discipline coordination of the university's pertinent specialty specialties, and the strength of outstanding teachers both domestically and internationally.

• To create a systematic professional knowledge system, it uses visual creative design, artificial intelligence visual design, dynamic visual design, interactive visual design, and integrated visual design. It also closely adheres to the professional development trend in the global arena and draws on the established science and technology programmes of universities to form a professional feature that is centered on the growth of the creative industry.

II.Educational Objectives

• This programme is committed to cultivating talents with a sense of social responsibility, all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical, beauty and labor, adapting to the needs of the national modernization construction and the professional talent market of design, possessing the correct concept of art design, systematically mastering the necessary theoretical knowledge, basic skills and practical ability of design for this programme. Have a strong innovative thinking, international vision, team spirit, professional quality and market awareness. Guide students to master advanced professional knowledge of visual communication design, advocate independent thinking, innovative spirit and teamwork, and become a new generation of innovative and practical visual communication design outstanding talents.
• Graduates can systematically master the basic theoretical knowledge and skills necessary for the programme, and understand the scientific and technological development, literary and artistic trends, humanities and history knowledge related to the programme; It can be engaged in the design, management, research and teaching of visual creative design, artificial intelligence visual design, visual creativity and design, brand design, packaging design, dynamic image design, publication design, illustration design, etc. It can also be engaged in interactive information design, film and television post-production, UI interface design and other emerging media design.

III. Eligibility Check:

• • 1.International students who hold foreign passports;
• • 2.Completed high school with a high school diploma or higher academic qualifications;
• • 3.No criminal records and in good physical and mental health;
• • 4.Aged 16 or above, for applicants who are under 18 need to provide a a letter of guarantee from a legally recognized adult guardian residing in China.

IV. Language Requirements:

• • 1.Proof of English - IELTS ≥6.0/ TOEFL ≥80 or other equivalent is needed for English-taught programmes.
• • 2. Applicants who have no language scores need to take additional language courses.

V. Scholarship

Overview:

Founded in 1952, East China University of Science and Technology（ECUST） is located in Shanghai, an economic, financial, commercial as well as a shipping center of China.

• The first national key university featuring chemical engineering disciplines in P.R.C
• One of the state-run and full-time institutions of higher education
• One of the research-oriented national key universities directly regulated by the Ministry of Education of China
• One of the National "211 Project" key construction universities
• One of the National “985 Project” Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform for high-level universities
• One of the first 6 universities in China that have established the National Technology Transfer Center

ECUST devotes itself to develop international cooperation and has established long-term and extensive academic exchanges and joint training cooperation with more than 200 universities, colleges, enterprises, and research institutions from all over the world, including the United States, Germany, Britain, France, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia, etc.

Academics:

It has a strong tradition of working with industries. The university is now developing into a multi-disciplinary higher educational institution with a balanced curriculum of science, engineering, economics, management, law, humanities, and arts spread across 15 academic schools.

The university offers 13 first level and 81 second-level doctoral programs, 25 first level, and 147 second-level master programs and 65 undergraduate programs. The total number of full-time students has reached around 24,140, including 15,460 undergraduates, 7,110 postgraduates studying for master's degrees, and 1,570 Ph.D. candidates.

Since 2007 the university has operated an exchange programme with the Technical University of Applied Sciences Lübeck in Germany. ECUST also operates a joint programme with L'École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie in Rennes and a joint business school with the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu in Romania.

You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it