Peking University

• Students in most areas of study are eligible to apply to this partner university
• Note: Peking University does not accept Chinese citizens (including Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao). This applies to all agreements, including Commerce.  

When applying to Go Global:

• Commerce: UBC-V Commerce students must select 'Peking University-COMM' 
• Law: UBC-V Law students must select 'Peking University-LAW' 
• All other students: Select 'Peking University-Uniwide'

Term dates

• UBC Term 1 (Peking Semester 1): Early September to late January
• UBC Term 2 (Peking Semester 2): Early February to late June
• UBC Full Year (Peking Semester 1+2): September - June
• UBC Split Year (Peking Semester 2+1): February - January

*COMM students at Peking in Term 1: Some courses for exchange students in Guanghua School of Management end in December
*Exchange in term 1 is not recommended if returning to UBC in January due to limited course availability

Areas of study available:

• Arts
• Commerce (UBCV)
• Engineering
• Land and Food Systems
• Law
• Science

Course availability and restrictions

• Commerce students may take 2 or 3 classes outside of the Guanghua School of Management
• When using the website, note that most courses are taught in Chinese - courses taught in English are marked out in Chinese at the last column
• When selecting courses, ensure that they are available in the semester for which you are applying
• The English-taught undergraduate courses are open to exchange students, but the English-taught graduate courses of special Master programs (MIR, MBA, MPA, LLM, Yenching Academy, etc.) are NOT open. 
• Chinese language courses are training courses designed for international students, therefore they are not undergraduate courses and they have class hours but no credits at PKU. 
• Once students decides to give up Chinese language courses and only take undergraduate/graduate courses (Chinese-taught/English-taught) at other departments (专业院系), they are unable to change to learn Chinese at the School of Chinese as a Second Language in the first semester.
• The courses at the PKU Health Science Center (medicine, anatomy, etc.) are NOT open to exchange students.

Partner Course Information

Course equivalency Formula

• 1 Peking credit = 1 UBC credits

Course load Information

• Minimum: 18 hours/week for students in Chinese School as a Second Language
• Minimum: 6-20 credits for students in other departments
• Normally 1 credit demands one or two hours/week

Transfer credit

The transfer credit process takes approximately 16 weeks following each submission deadline. You should allow sufficient time to meet important deadlines that may affect you (e.g. application for graduation, registration in courses that require prerequisites that you took on exchange, entry to a major/honours program, etc.)

Search for previously approved courses

Additional note for language of instruction

• Please note that there are a limited number of courses taught in English
• If you are proficient in Chinese, you can apply to be enrolled in the interested school/department either by providing qualified HSK certificate or by passing the Chinese language test upon registration
• New HSK test - student must pass Level 6 
• Old HSK test - student must pass Level 7