Recently, President Ma Jian of Chang’ an University and President E. Gordon Gee of West Virginia University signed MOU between the two Universities.
According to the agreement, to promote educational and academic exchanges, both sides will initiate cooperation and communication in the field of faculty and student exchange and cooperation in scientific research on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, complementary advantages, mutual cooperation and common development. To deepen cooperation in co- organizing international conferences, jointly establish engineering laboratories so that both sides can establish and carry out a comprehensive, long-term and stable cooperative partnership. The signing of the cooperation agreements will provide better platforms for sharing resources, transferring information and cooperating research of the two universities.
West Virginia University, located in Morgantown, was founded in 1867. It is a comprehensive public university. And it has been evaluated as one of the primary research universities by Carnegie, a senior education foundation. Besides, its faculty of Engineering ranks highly in the America’s Top Universities organized by the U.S. News and World Report. The discipline of landscape architecture ranks the 13th in the evaluation hosted by Design Futures Council.
