Institute of International Education

The program’s curriculum, leading to a Master's degree in Global Affairs, has been designed to build students’ leadership abilities and deepen their knowledge of China in a global context.

All Schwarzman Scholars share a core curriculum that serves as an anchor for the rest of their studies and builds connections among them as a cohort. Schwarzman Scholars will complete much of the core curriculum together early in the program, in the summer and fall of their year in Beijing. Core courses include: 

Chinese Culture, History, and Values; Leading Issues in the Global Economy; Leadership; Comparative Government; and Leading Issues in International Relations

In addition to the core curriculum, students will work with faculty advisors and tutors to design a set of concentration courses customized to reflect each scholar’s professional and academic interests. The concentration course offerings will fall into one of three broad fields, corresponding to Tsinghua’s schools and departments that have partnered with Schwarzman College to develop course offerings: Public Policy, Economics and Business, or International Studies