News
May 31, 2010
International Partnerships
Lansbridge University (LU) President, Ernest Smith travelled to Hong Kong and Mainland China this month (May 1st to May 11th) in order to establish partnerships with a prominent international business group and a long standing post-secondary institution.
Life Office Management Association (LOMA) Society of Hong Kong (formerly known as FLMI Society of Hong Kong) was founded in 1978. Members of the society are mainly insurance practitioners and professionals who have earned the designations of Fellow Life Management Institute (FLMI) offered by the LOMA.
LOMA Societies are under the charter of the US-based LOMA, an international insurance and financial services institution founded in 1924. Today, LOMA has a total of 11 professional designation education programs available worldwide. Among them, the FLMI Program is the largest university-level insurance education program in the world.
Signed by LOMA Hong Kong President Gollum Shau and Lansbridge President Ernest Smith on May 10th, 2010 the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) states that LOMA will work in close association with the LU for the purpose of educating its members in a North American business education. Both parties are very enthusiastic about working together for mutual benefit.
Northwest University founded in 1902, is the oldest institution of higher learning in Northwest China, and one of the leading comprehensive universities in China. It is also one of the key institutions of higher education listed in the construction of the State "211 Project". The university is located in Xi'an, a famous ancient capital of China and the heart of ancient Chinese culture.
The University has 24 schools and departments offering 69 undergraduate programs, 143 Master's programs, 76 doctoral programs and nine Post-doctoral programs. The University has a faculty and staff of over 2,300, of which more than 1,100 are full-time faculty and nearly 600 are professors and associate professors including 2 full-time and 8 part-time academicians of the Chinese Academy of Science. The University has a student body of over 20,000, including 5,000 doctoral and graduate students, and over 300 international students.
The University pays attention to international exchange and cooperation and has established exchange relations with over 90 institutions of higher learning in the United States, Japan, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Since 1965, the University has trained more than 5000 international students. In 1992, the University established a special entity, the College of International Cultural Exchanges (CICE), as a University-wide unit responsible for the admission of international students into various programs of study at the University.
Lansbridge and Northwest have engaged in preliminary talks regarding offering the LU MBA in English through the CICE arm.