Mrupe, an overseas student form Kazakhstan, studied very hard in class, and took active part in all kinds of cultural activities organized by the university. He said, “Xi’an is an ancient but also modernized city, it has many historical relics, you can learn and experience traditional Chinese culture here.

Sufian and Mrupe’s words represent voices of massive worldwide overseas students studying in Xi’an Shiyou University. So, what power is it that makes the western university with less than 10 years’ overseas student education win both the overseas students’ favour and educational administrative departments and mass universities’ praises?

Focusing on its specialty to make itself competitive.

"Xi’an Shiyou University insists on advanced school running principal, concentrates on top-level design and scientific and overall plan, and established “internationalization, comprehensiveness and application-based overseas student cultivation plan.” said Li Lin, director of International Exchange Office of Xi’an Shiyou University.

As well as cropping with features of overseas students under diverse culture atmosphere and personnel training principal,Xi’an Shiyou University establishes a teaching management model of "enrolling student in large categories, staged cultivation and convergent management” , which sets up overseas student teaching as 4 years’ late enrollment and separate classes educational system, 2+2 system and 2+1+1 system three types, formulated diverse overseas student training system.

In aspect of curriculum structure, the university established Chinese culture programs, international demand programs, disciplinary fundamental courses, professional programs and specialty training programs “five modules”. The university makes all its efforts to the elite specialty, petroleum engineering. Besides, to solve the enrollment and employment in the cultivation for overseas talents, Xi’an Shiyou University also builds multichannel student admission platforms and school-enterprise cooperation employment platforms, thus forming a complete overseas student cultivation system and “3352” (“Three factors” and “Three Types and “Five Modules” and “Two Platforms” framework for overseas student cultivating mode.

Moreover, Xi’an Shiyou University al attaches importance to overseas student’s quality-oriented education and cultural cross communication. In accord with personality of overseas student and the educational requirement for petroleum engineering majoring professionals, the university integrates the cutting-edge disciplinary knowledge and theoretical system into the curriculum content on the basic of integrating the original curriculum system, teaching content and current international programs. In the teaching progress, the university pay much attention to combine professional teaching with Chinese language teaching, combine theoretical teaching with practical skills training, and combine indoor human-quality teaching and outdoor social practice, and it makes good effect. The overseas student training mode innovation and practice project conducted by Xi’an Shiyou University won special prize in 2013 Shanxi Province Higher Educational Institute Teaching Achievements assessment.

For 10 tears, Xi’an Shiyou University has trained totally 2079 international students, which ranks at 1st place among engineering college in Shanxi province, becoming the second Shanxi provincial university having the qualification of Ministry of Education “Colleges approved to enroll China Government Scholarship Overseas Student”, in the meanwhile become the university qualified to independently enroll China Government Scholarship funded Russian Student. Many overseas students graduated from the Xi’an Shiyou University become transnational enterprises’ most wanted employees.