The 64 Chinese students and 11 teachers in town from Shanghai, China, split up in groups Thursday to perform various forms of community service to local organizations.

One group of students from the foreign exchange program sponsored by the Forte International Exchange Association helped clean up the facilities at the Raemelton Therapeutic Equestrian Center in Mansfeild.

The Chinese students are in Mansfield for 12 days taking English classes at Mansfield Senior High School and learning about American culture.
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While many foreign universities have set up joint programmes or campuses in China, even more are recruiting Chinese students to their home campuses.

In 2008, a total of 98,510 Chinese students arrived in colleges and universities in the US alone to begin undergraduate or postgraduate studies.

Students from overseas can be a valuable source of revenue, since they typically pay higher fees.

For example, the University of Nottingham in the UK charges home students £3,290 a year to study agriculture, while international students pay £14,260.

Growth in recruitment has been rapid. Shibin Li, the managing director of the Beijing office of Michigan State University, says that in 2003 it enrolled about 30 Chinese students to study in the US. Last year the university recruited 500. Numbers have increased, he says, “because Chinese guys are rich”.

“The Chinese families now have money, and to get a visa is more easy,” he says.

The US authorities are thought to be keen to let Chinese students in, since China’s rapid improvement in living standards means most will return home.

“It’s a gold mine,” Mr Li adds. “The tuition every year is $42,000. So that’s 500 multiplied by $42,000.”

However, he says the university will restrict numbers to ensure a balance of nationalities among foreign students.

Universities also insist they take only highly qualified Chinese students.

“We are more focused on the academic quality of the students rather than the number we admit,” says Wanling Qu of the Beijing office of the University of Minnesota, an institution that last year recruited 254 Chinese students, bringing the total in the university to 1,400.

And they could do well once they returned home.Sonia Sren, a recruitment assistant at Kansas State University’s office in Beijing, says a Chinese person with a degree from the US may enjoy improved employment prospects.

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The Top Business Schools in the US for Chinese Students

After two year of interviews and research we have compiled our lists of top business schools and Executive MBA (E-MBA) programs for Chinese students looking for study opportunities in America, Australia, Canada, UK, Singapore and New Zealand.

We will be listing the top five schools in each country in no particular order. The criteria used to evaluate schools differs greatly from that used by US News and World Report and others. We queried parents and prospective students during our travels about those issues that most concerned them and most affected their choices before and after admission. The rankings displayed are unbiased and were not affected by our affinity for any program despite one of the schools being a strong supporter of the Blog of Dreams.

Criteria:

• Openness Toward Foreign Students/Ethnic Diversity
• Financial Assistance
• Post Graduation Placement Assistance
• Faculty to Student Ratio
• Overall Reputation of Graduate School
• Campus Safety
• Ease of Application/Admission Office Attitude
• Affordability: Living Costs, Tuition
• Curriculum
• Student Life
• Internship Options
• Salary After Graduation
• Alumni Network

Top Five Business Schools in no particular order for the second year in a row:

• Purdue: Scored highest in Ethic diversity (Chinese students make up 2nd largest population), Alumni Network, Graduate School Reputation, and Curriculum. Downside: “Too many foreign students”

• Ohio State: Scored highest in Student Life, Ease of Application and Financial Assistance. Downside:”Community off-campus lacks resources”

• Cal Poly: Scored highest in Affordability, Campus Safety, Faculty to Student Ratio, Graduate School Reputation (Top Overall Masters Degree Granting Institution in the West) and Post Graduate Placement and salary (for state run schools). Downside: “Application procedure daunting and deadlines are not in line with desirable schools”

• Harvard: Scored Highest in Reputation, Alumni Network, Salary After Graduation, Faculty to Student Ratio, Ethnic Diversity, and Internship Options. Downside: “Impersonal admissions personnel and application procedures”

• University of Minnesota: Scored highest in Ethnic Diversity, Curriculum, Campus Safety, Ease of Application. Downside: “Off-campus life lacks diversity and weather is difficult for some”

Other schools close to making the cut: University of Arizona, Columbia University, UCLA, University of California at Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania and the University of Iowa…

Guide for Chinese Students 如果你想留学美国《本科学习》

Here you can download the guide to studying in the USA.The guides will help you to apply for training and visas relating to 《本科学习》是美国国务院编撰的四册一套引介从书种的第一册。这套丛书是向希望到美国学习的国际学生和学者提供客观和实际的。本书介绍如何选择和申请美国本科学位和职业学校教育机会的信息。

美国有三千六百多所学院和大学提供本科学位。这本小册子将告诉你如何准备成功的大学申请材料（第八章和第九章）以及签证的申请过程（第十一章）。一旦获得录取，你一定想知道抵达美国的时候应该期望些什么，我们给你提供了这方面的提示（第十二章）。这本小册子最后的术语汇编向你解释你在申请到美国留学时会经常碰到的一些词和用语。

本册的内容还包括美国的本科教育，学院大学、学位日历、系统、课程、社区学院、大学生活方式、费用住宿、环境、学校规模、入学要求、奖学金，转学，签证申请等等。

详细信息，可以下载以下资料。

Download Here:

Study in the USA

留学美国： Jacky 的留学梦

看中文内容，请点击更多。（This article is in English. To read it in Chinese, click on the more tag.)

A major goal of the China Dreamblogue is to create educational opportunities for students who may not otherwise have the chance, and as a part of this, we are creating possibilities for students to study abroad at US and UK Schools as well as other places. As a part of our journey, we will be giving away approximately $24,000 USD (￥186,000) in scholarships from America to qualified applicants looking to make their educational dreams come true.

Living in a foreign country is difficult, and often students need guides. Here, you will find guides written in Chinese about preparing for study abroad, learning about the US and UK foreign culture, and preparing for the strange and interesting experience of studying abroad and living in a foreign country.

Jacky, one of the loyal dreamers of this blog, has made a decision to prepare for studying abroad in the US in hopes of earning an MBA from Calpoly’s MBA program. I’ve asked him a few questions about his dreams with us and why he has chosen to study abroad.

David: Why do you dream about studying abroad?

Jacky: I want better education opportunities, and I think universities in UK and USA can give me this.

David: Why do you want a MBA?

Jacky: My father has a factory that is neither big nor small. And my dream is to help him to develop it into a big, international company. I hope that I will learn how to do that from the MBA program.

David: What is your dream for your family?

Jacky: I hope my father and my mother has a good and relaxing life after I come back from abroad. I hope that what I do will support all the spending in my family’s daily life. What’s more, I really just want them have a happy life.

David: What about your community?

Jacky: I’m from Foshan, a city near Guangzhou. I think my city now is a wealthy city and full of opportunities. People living in this city are happy. Foshan City is now the third biggest city in Canton province, behind Guangzhou and Shenzhen. I think it will become more and more popular all over the world in the future. This is a good chance for me.

David: If you wanted to give advice to other people about following their dreams, what would you say?

Jacky: In my opinion, study abroad requires a brave heart. You have to adapt to life in a whole different environment, culture and people. You have to study in a totally different educational system. You have to deal with your homesickness. You have to overcome disconnection from your friends and family.

David: How do you feel about living in foreign country?

Jacky: I think living in a foreign country is exciting at the beginning and is terrible after the first few weeks. When you first arrive, I think you will feel like you are traveling. But when you keep doing the same thing week after week, and there is no one you can talk to, that’s the most dangerous and terrible time for a international student. But during this time you explore your surroundings, and when you get used to it, it will become your second hometown, and you will feel you don’t want to leave.

Blog your Dream/把梦想写在博客上:

To continue in Chinese, read on…

中文待续……

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One thing I do miss about America is the grand amount of community and continuing education available to virtually anyone and much of it for free. I was stumbling through Illustratrator’s newest release on MAC yesterday and bemoaning the fact that even a book on the subject would be hard to come by or too expensive to ship or pick up in Hong Kong.

Coincidentally, two colleges contacted me about the possibility of low-residency Masters and Doctoral programs and Continuing Education. One school is based in the UK and one is in the US. Both have good reputations and a comprehensive offering of courses. Both asked me if I thought they could be successful in China with the expat community. I answered honestly that I hadn’t a clue, but that I would ask you.

Let me know your thoughts and please feel free to add a response or two to the poll.

This link is now on the front page….Leave your comments there please!

One of the goals of the China Dreamblogue is to create a strong, pro-China internet presence on the Internet. To do this, we need your help. And as we create our China friendly network, we would also like to help the people who help us get to the top of the rankigs. The process is simple and powerful.

We’ve created an idea called Link it Forward, similar to internet memes. “Link it Forward” will travel rapidly through pro-China blogs. In addition, this idea will help to create links–potentially thousands–to your website.

There are six simple steps:

1. Take the two lists of blogs below these instructions and put them in a post on your blog. The first list of three blogs, Onemanbandwidth, The China Dreamblogue, and Sinotrading, should always remain on the list.
2. On the second list, put a link to your blog at number 1.
3. Move each of the other links down one step on the list. The first blog becomes second, the second becomes third, etc.
4. This means the number 5 link has successfully completed its cycle.
5. Send your updated list to at least five other people and as many as you want. The more people you send to, the more links you will get. If you have a hundred people you want to send this to, go ahead!
6. If you want, create a new list of five blogs you think deserve some links. Be kind and include the permanent list as well.

Remember, please don’t change the permanent links or add a number six link. Also, all of the advertising money generated from the permanent links goes to charity. You are free to do as you will with the money you earn from Link It Forward. We will list some places you can go to monetize your site.

Permanent List:

Onemanbandwidth

The China Dreamblogue

Sinotrading

The Moveable list:

Your blog

four of your friends’ blogs

The numbers work out well for you. You will have approximately five rounds on the list.

On the first round, you’ll get five links.

On the second, you’ll get 25 (each of the five people you sent the list to will get five more people to put your link on their site).

The third round nets you 125, the fourth 625, and the fifth 3,125.

Your grand total (should everyone follow Link it Forward) will be 3,905 links. And if you get linked to again by another blog, you can start the process all over again to earn another 3,000 links. With a few thousand links, you can begin to generate money from your site via Google Adwords. Go to Google Adwords button at the bottom of this site now to begin to monetize your site.

This is for fun. This is to promote positive value for pro-China blogs in Western search engines, to raise money for China charities and needy people on the three permanent blogs (they donate their ad monies to charity) and to make China blogs more popular all over the Internet.

Let’s link it forward!

To monetize your site click on the links provided on the front page of Blog of Dreams

China Dreamblogue的其中一个目标是在因特网上创建一个强大的，支持中国的互联网。实现这个目标，我们需要你的帮助。在我们建造我们中国的友好互联网的同时，我们将会帮助那些支持我们的人，把他们的博客推到网络排名的最前列。这个过程既简单又有效。

我们已经有一个构想，称为“链接在一起”（Link it Forward），与“网络媒母”（internet memes）相类似。“Link it Forward”（ 链接在一起）会以很快的速度在支持中国的博客上移动。另外，这个构想可以使你的网站的链接数量增加几千个以上。

以下是六个简单的步骤：

1. 按照以下的说明列两组博客的目录然后放到您的博客上。第一组名单是三个固定的博客：Onemanbandwidth, The China Dreamblogue, 和Sinotrading。这三个博客的连接必须永远的保留和不可改变。
2. 在第二组上，把您自己的博客连接放在目录的第一位上。
3. 把所有在第二组目录上的连接排名依次向下移动一位。即排第一的移到第二位，排第二的移到第三位等等（第五位的移到第一位）。
4. 这就是说排第五的应该要完成一个循坏回到第五的位置上。
5. 将你的更新了的列表发给至少5个其他博客。您发的越多，您就能获得更多的链接。如果您有一百个人，那就快点去做吧。
6. 如果您想的话，还可以另外创建一个您认为有价值的列表。请也同样包括那个不变名单（即onemanbandwidth, china dreamblogue 和 sinotrading）

请记住，不要改动或者改变第一组名单和不要在第二组名单上加上第六个链接。同样，通过第一组名单所得到的广告收益将用作慈善用途。而从第二组“link it forward”上所得的收益将有您自己支配。我们会为您列举一些能够推算您自己网站价值的地方。

第一组（长期不变得目录）：

Onemanbandwidth

The China Dreamblogue

Sinotrading

第二组（可更新的目录）：

您的博客

您朋友的博客

如果理想的话，您大约会有比从前翻5倍的链接量。

第一个循环，您会得到5个链接。

第二个循环您会得到25个链接（跟您建立链接的那5个人每人会给您带来5个新的链接）

第三个循环您会有125个链接，第四个有625，第五个有3，125个。

如果每个人都按照Link it Forward的方法，您最后会得到3，905个链接。如果您同时又跟其他博客建立同种方法的链接，您将会得到另外3，000多个的链接。有了这上千个的 连接，您就能从Google Adwords（Google搜索引擎营销）那里得到相应的收益了。现在就请按本页底部的Google Adwords按钮来看一下您的网站的价值吧。

这是为了兴趣；这是为了提高中国博客在西方搜索引擎的排名；这更是为了中国的慈善事业出一分力（因为限定组中的3个博客将会把全部广告收益捐献给中国的慈善机构）；同样也能增加中国博客在互联网上的知名度。

让我们一起link it forward(链接在一起)吧！

The China Dreamblogue is a project undertaken by two American teachers to provide educational opportunities for people in China. We are doing this because we want to help people to achieve the dreams that they haven’t been able to. Hence our name is The China Dreamblogue.

中国载梦博客是由两位美国教师组建，为了给中国学生提供教育机会的一个计划。我们这样做是为了帮助人们实现他们如今还没有实现的愿望。因此我们的名字叫中国载梦博客

Our project has 4 major parts:
我们的计划由几个主要部分组成：

1. Traveling: First, Yanzhi Liu and I will be traveling to the 22 provinces of mainland China over the course of the next 12-16 months. We will visit and interview at least one person from every ethnic group and from every province to find out about their lifestyle, their beliefs, and their hopes and ambitions for themselves and others. We will post these interviews on the Dreamblogue for you to read.
2. Free Scholarships: Yanzhi and I are giving away scholarships that will allow students to study abroad in the UK and the US.
3. China information: Yanzhi and I will be posting regular information about China on this blog. Yanzhi and I have found that Westerners’ understanding of China is often darkened by news reports that focus on the negative parts of China. We will be putting up information here on the blog that seeks to find the interesting, curious, good parts of Chinese culture and highlight them here.
4. Money for Charity: Yanzhi and I are raising money for two charities, Thomas Stader’s Library Project and Terry Dougherty’s Reading Tub. We will be raising money by selling advertising on the Blog of Dreams and giving away the advertising money to Thomas and Terry directly through a Feedburner account. Yanzhi and I will never touch the money.

1. 行程：在接下来的12-16个月中， 刘彦志和我将会游历中国大陆22个省份。在去到每一个民族的地区的时候我们将会采访该民族的人，了解他们的生活方式、信仰、愿望、理想等等。我们将会将这些采访刊登在“载梦博客”上供大家阅读参考。
2. 免费奖学金：彦志和我将会发放奖学金供同学们去英国和美国留学。
3. 中国信息：彦志和我将会定期发布关于中国的信息在这个网站上。我们发现西方人对中国的理解经常遭到新闻报纸的误导，因为它们专注于报导中国消极方面的信息。我们将会把中国有趣的、奇特的事物、事件或中国文化积极的方面和它们最精彩的方面放上这个博客。
4. 慈善基金：我们将为两个慈善机构筹集基金：Thomas Stader的图书馆计划和Terry Dougherty的读书俱乐部筹集善款。我们将把载梦博客的广告收入通过账户直接捐给Thomas和Terry.

How you can help (and don’t worry, none of these cost you a dime):
你们怎样帮助我们呢？（放心，不需花费你们分钱）

1. Blog your dreams. It’s simple. Go the form the the bottom of this page (and at the end of most posts, and fill out your dream. You can send your dream as a photo, video, text, or any other medium you can imagine. It can be a big dream or a small one. We are currently looking for sponsors who will be able to help fund your dream.
2. Visit the site often. The more people visit, the more hits and pageviews the site gets, and the more money we can charge advertisers. More money will go to charity. We’ll be sure to have fresh content for you to come back to every day.
3. Send us your photos. Over the course of the Dreamblogue journey, we’ll be sponsoring a photo contest for both professionals and amateurs, with prizes for the photos who get the most votes.
4. Favorite us on Technorati. There is a little green button you can click on that says, “fave this blog technorati.” We are trying to generate publicity for our project by becoming the most favorited blog in the world on Technorati. Click on the button, register as a member (don’t worry, it’s free and spam-free), and click on the button one more time on our site to move us one step closer to our goal.

1. 将你们的梦想写在我们的博客上。非常简单，只要写在博客下方的方框里就行了（在每篇文章的末尾写上你们的梦想。你们可以把你们的图片、视频或其他媒体文件发送给我们。它可以是大的，也可以是小的梦想。我们会寻找赞助商尽量来帮助你们实现它们。）
2. 经常登陆这个网站。越多人登陆这个网站，我们网站就会有越多的点击率和读者，然后我们就可以向登广告的人索取更多的广告费，那么我们就有更多的钱资助慈善机构。为了使大家每天都来浏览我们的网站，我们保证每天都有新鲜的内容提供给大家。
3. 把你们的照片发给我们。在这个“载梦博客”的旅途上，我们将举行专业级和业余级的摄影大赛，获奖者将会赢得丰富的奖品。
4. 在Technorati 上投我们一票。点击那个写着“fabe this blog technorati.”的绿色按钮。我们正在尝试使我们的网站在Technorati 上，也就是全球范围出名，进而推广我们的这个计划。点击这个按钮，注册一个账户（别担心，它是免费的）然后在Technorati里点击我的网站，使我们更快地接近我们的目标。

Blog your Dream/把梦想写在博客上:

One of the many goals of the China Dreamblogue is to create a strong, pro-China internet presence in the blogosphere. To do this, we need your help. And as we create our pro-China network, we would also like to help the people who want to be part of this network by giving them a way to increase their SEO power and their ability to monetize their site. Sound complicated and difficult? The process is deceptively simple and powerful.

We’ve created an idea called link it forward. Similar to the internet memes and the Thinking Blog tag that recently moved through a number of English-language blogs about China, our idea will travel rapidly through pro-China blogs. In addition, this idea will help to create links–as many as four thousand–to your site through a trickle-down method.

There are five simple steps:

1. Take this list of 8 blogs and put them in a post on your blog. The first three blogs, Onemanbandwidth, The China Dreamblogue, and Sinotrading, remain on the list.
2. At the top of the moveable list, put a link to your blog.
3. Remove the link from the bottom of blog.
4. Send your updated list to at least five other people.
5. If you want, create a new moveable list of five blogs you think deserve some links. Be kind and include the permanent list as well.

Perma-List:

• Onemanbandwidth
• The China Dreamblogue
• Sinotrading

The Moveable list:

• The Hao Hao Report
• East South North West
• The Cal Poly MBA Trip
• China Law Blog
• The Opposite End of China

The numbers work out well for you. You will have approximately five rounds on the list. On the first round, you’ll get five links. On the second, you’ll get 25 (each of the five people you sent the list to will get five more people to put your link on their site). The third round nets you 125, the fourth 525, and the fifth 2,625. Your grand total (should everyone follow Link it Forward) will be 3,305 links. And if you get linked to again by another blog, you can start the process all over again to earn another 3,000 links.

To monetize your blog or site please click on the links found on the front page of this blog.

China Dreamblogue的其中一个目标是在因特网上创建一个强大的，支持中国的互联网。实现这个目标，我们需要你的帮助。在我们建造我们中国的友好互联网的同时，我们将会帮助那些支持我们的人，把他们的博客推到网络排名的最前列。这个过程既简单又有效。

我们已经有一个构想，称为“链接在一起”（Link it Forward），与“网络媒母”（internet memes）相类似。“Link it Forward”（ 链接在一起）会以很快的速度在支持中国的博客上移动。另外，这个构想可以使你的网站的链接数量增加几千个以上。

以下是六个简单的步骤：

1. 按照以下的说明列两组博客的目录然后放到您的博客上。第一组名单是三个固定的博客：Onemanbandwidth, The China Dreamblogue, 和Sinotrading。这三个博客的连接必须永远的保留和不可改变。
2. 在第二组上，把您自己的博客连接放在目录的第一位上。
3. 把所有在第二组目录上的连接排名依次向下移动一位。即排第一的移到第二位，排第二的移到第三位等等（第五位的移到第一位）。
4. 这就是说排第五的应该要完成一个循坏回到第五的位置上。
5. 将你的更新了的列表发给至少5个其他博客。您发的越多，您就能获得更多的链接。如果您有一百个人，那就快点去做吧。
6. 如果您想的话，还可以另外创建一个您认为有价值的列表。请也同样包括那个不变名单（即onemanbandwidth, china dreamblogue 和 sinotrading）

请记住，不要改动或者改变第一组名单和不要在第二组名单上加上第六个链接。同样，通过第一组名单所得到的广告收益将用作慈善用途。而从第二组“link it forward”上所得的收益将有您自己支配。我们会为您列举一些能够推算您自己网站价值的地方。

第一组（长期不变得目录）：

Onemanbandwidth

The China Dreamblogue

Sinotrading

第二组（可更新的目录）：

您的博客

您朋友的博客

如果理想的话，您大约会有比从前翻5倍的链接量。

第一个循环，您会得到5个链接。

第二个循环您会得到25个链接（跟您建立链接的那5个人每人会给您带来5个新的链接）

第三个循环您会有125个链接，第四个有625，第五个有3，125个。

如果每个人都按照Link it Forward的方法，您最后会得到3，905个链接。如果您同时又跟其他博客建立同种方法的链接，您将会得到另外3，000多个的链接。有了这上千个的 连接，您就能从Google Adwords（Google搜索引擎营销）那里得到相应的收益了。现在就请按本页底部的Google Adwords按钮来看一下您的网站的价值吧。

这是为了兴趣；这是为了提高中国博客在西方搜索引擎的排名；这更是为了中国的慈善事业出一分力（因为限定组中的3个博客将会把全部广告收益捐献给中国的慈善机构）；同样也能增加中国博客在互联网上的知名度。

让我们一起link it forward(链接在一起)吧！