School of Journalism and Communication signs tripartite memorandum of understanding with USC schools
On May 28th, the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University (TSJC) signed a tripartite memorandum of understanding with the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California (USC).
Gao Hong, Vice Provost for International Education of Tsinghua, Professor Hu Yu, Secretary of the CPC TSJC Committee, Yannis C. Yortsos, Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and Deng Feng, a Tsinghua alumnus and founder of the Northern Light Venture Capital, attended the signing ceremony.
Professor Chen Changfeng, Executive Dean of TSJC, and Professor Hu Yu signed the document on behalf of TSJC.
This tripartite memorandum of understanding establishes concrete plans for faculty exchanges among the three institutions, and for the joint training of students, as well as for collaborative research projects. It also establishes a Media Entrepreneurship double-degree Master’s program, which will focus on the application of data science in journalism and communication.
Writer: Zhu Lvhe
Editor: Galia Popov, John Olbrich
