From programme to programme, from photography to journalism, from UIC to Cambridge, the recent UIC graduate Cheng Yiran had walked out her own path decisively during her four years with hard work.Cheng Yiran, who has won the UIC First Class Award scholarship three timesIn her first year at UIC, Cheng decided to transfer her programme to Media and Communication Studies due to her strong interest. To ...

Niu Yishan: Finding her voice through mediaNiu YishanClass of 2025, Department of CommunicationOffer: Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh"Learn to express, think, question, and build trust in yourself." Over her four years at BNBU, Niu Yishan has been on a journey of self-discovery. Her summer internship at Henan TV thrust her into high-intensity news production: shooting in sweltering heat,...

When Wang Yi realised her growing interest in sociology, it was her second year, during an exchange programme in Hong Kong.Just three months in, she made a bold decision: she wrote to the Academic Registry to withdraw from the year-long exchange and return to Beijing Normal–Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU) to transfer into the Digital Social Science Programme.Wang YiClass of 2026, first batch of ...

"I couldn't have made it to Oxford without UIC," says Yang Jianing, a recent UIC graduate who is heading to Oxford University to study comparative social policy for his Master's degree. Looking back, Yang entered UIC four years ago with little idea of the transformative journey that lay ahead.Yang Jianing, Class of 2024, Department of Social SciencesAfter graduating from high school, Yang set out to ...