英国杜伦大学校方通知，信息如下：

Durham University 更新了2019学年对于中国申请人的录取要求，同时杜伦商学院也更新了认可大学的名单，大部分为上海交大排名TOP50的学校。杜伦商学院申请要求为TOP10大学80+；其他大学85+。杜伦大学2019申请开放时间为2018年10月1日。

特别列出，即使属于上交排名TOP50大学，以下中国大学的学生杜伦商学院将不再考虑其申请材料，

1.西北工业大学（985）

2.北京科技大学（211）

3.上海财经大学 （211）

4.中国农业大学（985）

5.东北大学 （985）

6.华中师范大学（211）

7.南方科技大学

8.北京交通大学（211）

9.首都医科大学

10.东华大学（211）

根据以往的申请情况，国内不少985/211院校的同学目标就是G5（牛津，剑桥，帝国理工，LSE，UCL），这部分学校的小伙伴特别喜欢把杜伦大学、华威大学、巴斯大学，曼彻斯特大学等在世界享有极高声誉的英国老牌名校作为“保底学校”，放弃入读的概率不低！而本次的主角——杜伦大学，可能意识到这个问题了，直接在近期公布的2019年中国大陆学生入学最新要求中取消了多所中国前五十高校学生申请其商学院的资格。

以下为学校官方邮件原文：

Dear Partners

Greetings from Durham

As we come to the end of the current recruitment year, I would like to send our thanks to you and your staff for all of your support throughout 2018. We are looking forward to mutually beneficial 2018 intake and a fruitful 2019 ahead.

In preparation for the next recruitment cycle, I have attached a copy of Durham’s entry requirements for Mainland Chinese students (2019 intake). In this document, there are a few points I need to bring to your attention;

• The list of Chinese universities has been updated, using the Shanghai Jiatong Rankings - Top 200 Chinese Universities Rankings - Overall Ranking (2018). We have also included select Project 211 and 985 institutions.

• The full list of approved institutions applies to all programmes at Durham University, with the exception of Durham University Business School (DUBS) postgraduate taught programmes

• You will see a separate column of entry grades and approved institutions for DUBS postgraduate programmes – please note that this column only applies to DUBS PGT programmes. DUBS undergraduate programmes will be considered the same as all other undergraduate programmes across the University i.e. an undergraduate business-related applicant with one year of study at any of the listed Chinese institutions, can be considered if they have achieved the requisite grades.

• Admissions teams will be working strictly to this new list, so it is important that your counselling staff only refer applications that meet our criteria. This will avoid wasting time on your and our part, and application fees (where applicable) on the student’s part. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.  

When reviewing the list of approved institutions you may notice that there are a number of top 50 ranked Chinese universities that DUBS are not considering this year. Marketing staff at DUBS have provided the following statement, to explain the rationale for their decision;  

“Durham University Business School have made a strategic decision to amend the list of institutions for 2019 entry. We are looking for the highest calibre applicants for our Postgraduate Taught programmes from across China and have revised the list in order to achieve this aim. We are prepared to consider applications from lower ranked intuitions as they have previously provided us with good quality applicants and have demonstrated good conversion from application to acceptance. In some cases we have received high volumes of applications from higher ranked institutions that have been removed from the list, as they have not consistently demonstrated the quality that we are seeking.”

Durham will open for new (2019) postgraduate applications on the 1st October 2018.

There is a final piece of good news. DUBS will be dropping their application deadline of the 31st January for Mainland Chinese students for the 2019 intake.

Please can I ask you to circulate this message and attachment to branch offices and frontline counselling staff as appropriate.   

Best Wishes

David