Yenching Scholars

The Yenching Scholarsip (also Yanjing Scholars; Chinese: 燕京学者, pinyin: Yānjīng Xuézhe) is an elite interdisciplinary graduate leadership program at the Yenching Academy of Peking University (PKU) in Beijing, China. The highly selective program, hosted in its own purpose-built residential college, is designed "to cultivate leaders who will advocate for global progress and cultural understanding." Starting in 2015, the program will provide Yenching Scholars, selected annually from around the world, with full scholarships for one year of study leading to a master's degree from Peking University, China's "most prestigious" and "first modern" university. At its announcement, then Peking University President Wang Enge described the program as the "most ambitious academic initiative PKU has launched since the turn of the new century."