Dushan Knezevich, Director of International Cooperation and Exchange Office and Graduate School of Business Science and Technology of Saint Mary's University of Minnesota visited XPU.

On October 23, Principal Gao Yong first on behalf of the university in VIP lounge gave a cordial welcome to the visiting guests saying shaanxi province and Minnesota have established friendly province-state relations more than 30 years; for two years since the cooperation began between us, we have been familiar with each other and established a profound friendship. Furthermore, we should take this as an opportunity on the basis of promoting student program to strengthen teachers’ cooperation and exchange in teaching and scientific research, hoping to achieve more fruitful results.

Later, Prof. Knezevich had a further discussion on the “1+1+ 0.5” double-master degree, “2+ 2” ,double-bachelor degree, and “3+1+ 1” for bachelor-master degree respectively in the joint cultivation, teachers exchange, short-term exchange students and other related affaires with persons in charge of International Cooperation and Exchange Office, Educational Office, Postgraduate Department, Management College, Science College, Apparel College, Environment and Chemistry College, Computer College, Humanities College, Art and Engineering College and other departments.

On the afternoon of October 23, Prof. Knezevich met students with double joint cultivation program in 2014 first introduced the American educational system, and then illustrated in detail the course setting, teaching mode, credit transfer, tuition discount of Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and other problems students were concerned about.

Saint Mary's university of Minnesota as one of the most important partners of our university, located in Minnesota was the fist batch of overseas universities acknowledged by Ministry of Education in China and was praised as “most prestigious university in America ”