Google launches scholarship programme in China

Google has launched its scholarship programme in China and hosted more than 130 scholarship recipients in its Beijing office recently. Undergraduates and graduate students in computer science and software engineering from more than twenty universities across China received the Google Excellence Scholarship and the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Google's first scholarships in China. The Google Excellence Scholarship aims to award undergraduates and master degree students from the computer science and software engineering disciplines. It has been set up at twenty universities in China, with five awardees for each university, three undergraduates and two graduates. The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship supports female students in computer science, including undergraduates, master's degree students and Ph.D. students, at five top universities. There are six awardees for each university, three undergraduates and three graduate students, and also three awardees from Taiwan. Google Scholarship Universities for this year include Beihang University, Beijing Normal University, Fudan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nankai University, Peking University, Renmin University of China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shandong University, South China University of Technology, Southeastern University, Sun Yat-sen University, Tianjin University, Tongji University, Tsinghua University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, University of Science and Technology of China, Xi'an Jiao Tong University and Wuhan University. Google plans to extend into other university collaboration programmes in the future.