More and more people believe that as a rising strategic sector, nano technology will initiate next industrial revolution. To produce high-end talents in the field, Suzhou Industrial Park Administrative Committee (SIPAC), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) & University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Joint Nano-Science and Technology Institute, and UC Berkeley signed an agreement on February 21 on co-launching a PhD program.

 

  

 

According to the agreement, SIPAC offers to three students an annual scholarship of 50,000 dollars each for five-year study at UC Berkeley on the condition that they return to China and work in SIP after graduation.

 

There are at present 70,000 full-time students at 20 colleges in SIP Dushu Lake Sci-Edu Innovation Park, making it a university town in a real sense. Apart from UC Berkeley, National University of Singapore and University of Dayton also opened new campuses in SIP.