BEIJING, May 6 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- ChinaEdu
Corporation (Nasdaq: CEDU) ("ChinaEdu" or "the Company"), a leading
educational services provider in China, today announced that it has signed a
recruiting and support cooperation agreement with Sichuan
Agricultural University.
Sichuan Agricultural University is one of the 68 universities
that are currently licensed to offer online degree education by the
Ministry of Education in China.
Under the agreement, the Company's nationwide learning center
network will provide recruiting and support services to Sichuan
Agricultural University's online college for a period of five
years.
Sichuan Agricultural University is the first agricultural
institution in Sichuan province
and was founded in 1906. The university consists of three separate
campuses which covers over 4,500 Chinese acres. There are 17
colleges, six research centers with 70 bachelor degrees as well are
multiple centers for advanced studies and search. There are more
than 30,000 students enrolled and over 2,900 masters' student, with
over 1,500 professors and 500 administrative professionals. Sichuan
Agricultural University is well known for its programs in
agricultural, engineer, medicine, science, management and
education.
ChinaEdu's learning center network is currently providing
recruiting and support services to 17 university's online college
which includes: Nanjing
University, Chongqing University,
Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dongbei Normal
University, Jilin University,
Fujian Normal University, University of Electronic Science and
Technology of China, Southwest
Jiaotong University, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Agricultural University, China
University of Geoscience (Wuhan),
Beijing Foreign Studies University, Jiangnan University,
Xiamen University, South China
Normal University, Beijing Language and Culture University and
Sichuan Agricultural University.
About ChinaEdu
ChinaEdu Corporation is an educational services provider in
China, incorporated as an exempted
limited liability company in the Cayman
Islands. Established in 1999, the Company's primary business
is to provide comprehensive services to the online degree programs
of leading Chinese universities. These services include academic
program development, technology services, enrollment marketing,
student support services and finance operations. The Company's
other lines of businesses include the operation of private primary
and secondary schools, online interactive tutoring services and
providing marketing and support for international curriculum
programs.
The Company believes it is the largest service provider to
online degree programs in China in
terms of the number of higher education institutions that are
served and the number of student enrollments supported. The Company
currently has 17 long-term, exclusive contracts that generally vary
from 10 to 50 years in length. ChinaEdu also performs recruiting
services for 17 universities through our nationwide learning center
network.
For more information, please contact:
Company Contacts:
Lily Liu, CFO
ChinaEdu Corporation
Phone: +86-10-8418-6655 x1002
Email: ir@chinaedu.net
S. Jimmy Xia, IR Manager
ChinaEdu Corporation
Phone: +86-10-8418-6655 x1150
Email: ir@chinaedu.net
SOURCE ChinaEdu Corporation