First class graduates from RIT China
Presidents of both RIT and Beijing Jiaotong University Weihai were present at the commencement ceremony.
RIT’s campus in Weihai, China, held its first commencement ceremony in 2019, recognizing the initial class of students to earn BS degrees in management information systems.
Courses at RIT China are jointly offered by RIT’s Saunders College of Business and the Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) School of Economics and Management, allowing students to earn a dual degree from RIT and BJTU.
Jiawei Xing, one of the 103 graduates who received his diploma at the Weihai campus on June 23, called the event “ceremonious and memorable.”
He said it was an honor to be a part of the first graduating class and he was excited that the presidents of both universities could be present at the event to certify the new graduates.
RIT China opened in 2015 and now boasts enrollment of more than 450 students.
Xing and several of his classmates have continued their studies in graduate school at the main RIT campus.
He is currently pursuing his MS in computational finance in Rochester and is excited to build on the momentum from his undergraduate studies.
“The program will take me one year to complete and I will enter the career market early to gain experience quickly,” he said. “Additionally, after coming here as a global scholar during my undergraduate study, I really enjoyed the academic atmosphere here.”