Non-Degree:

Bachelor Program:

Master’s Program:

Doctorate Program:

Expenses in Central South University

1. Tuition fee: 

• Non-degree: 10500 RMB to 42000 RMB 
• Bachelor Degree: 19000 RMB to 40000 RMB
• Master’s Degree: 23000 RMB  to 46000 RMB 
• Doctoral Degree: 28000 RMB to 52000 RMB 

1. Accommodation Fee: 

• Single Room: 12000RMB per Year
• Double Room: 6000RMB per Year

1. Food cost: 146 RMB to 240 RMB
2. Application Fee: 500 RMB
3. Service fee: USD 50
4. Living expanse: 2000 RMB to 2500 RMB per month
5. Medical checkup: 500 RMB
6. Residence permit: 400-1000 RMB per year
7. Insurance: 600 RMB per year

After you are admitted, we will inform you via email for your confirmation of acceptance. Afterward, we will issue the admission letter, JW201/202 Form for visa application. If you wish to live on campus, please complete the Housing Application form.

Prepare Your Departure:

Before your departure, be sure to take the following materials:

(1) The Admission Letter

(2) Passport (valid for at least 6 months).

(3) JW201/202 Form

(4) Official Foreigner Physical Examination Form and your blood test report. Be aware that the orientation is mandatory for freshman students.

Applying for any course at Central South University is very easy. Following some easy steps, you can easily apply for your desired course. You can complete your application online by following some simple steps.

Here is the detailed information about the required admission documents. International applicants are highly recommended to provide the following documents.

1. Passport & Passport Size Photo (Scan Copy)
Passport
First of all, you must have a passport. As we know passport is a very essential document and without this, we can not go out of our country. So if you don’t have it yet, we advise you to make it from your home country as soon as possible. Moreover, if you already have your passport, then make sure that it is not expired. If your passport already expired then you need to renew it. Please note, your passport must have to be ready before your visa processing. See a sample of passport.

Passport Size Photo
The general size of the passport size photo is (50mm x 40mm). For applying in china universities, your passport size photo has to be clear and the background must be plain, white or off-white in colour. The height of the head between 28mm – 33mm and head width 21mm–24mm. Advice to submit a colour photo which is taken 6 months before. Use a clear picture of your face. Do not use any filters and take off your eyeglasses for passport size photos, selfies or pictures with someone do not use as a passport size photo. Here is a sample of a Passport Size Photo.

2. Academic Transcript and Certificate (must be notarized copy)
Submit your immediate academic transcripts & certificate for applying. For example, if you are applying for bachelor submit your school transcripts and certificates. For Master’s Degree provide your undergraduate transcripts and certificates. When you are applying for Ph.D, you have to provide your both (undergraduate and graduate) transcripts and certificates. Transcript And Certificate are important, it help universities to decide if you have the necessary background and skills for the major. All Transcripts and Certificates must have to be notarized. You can notarize your document from an advocate who is authorized by the government.

Note: All the applicant’s transcripts and certificates must be notarized and language should be in Chinese or English version.

3. CV/Resume
You must prepare a CV or resume for applying in abroad country. CV acts as your business profile, though universities are not interested in detailed descriptions of your jobs or experience, but you have to add this. You should focus on your published academic papers, describe academic group works or extracurricular activities, relevant think-thanks, etc. Add your academic qualifications with results, personal details, personal achievement these are must for a perfect CV. Here is a sample of the CV/resume.

4. Physical Examination
Aspiring overseas students are required to a medical examination to ensure that you are in a good physical condition. The medical examination must include all the items which are listed in the Foreigner Physical Examination Form. The medical examination result will be declared as invalid without the signature of the attending doctor and hospital stamp or seal. You must bring the original medical documents when you come to arrive in China. The Medical certificate will be carried out on behalf of The Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Public Security. Here get a sample of physical examination.

5. Police Clearance
The police clearance certificate is known as “No Criminal Record Certificate” and also known as a good citizen certificate. Police clearance is very important for going to abroad because a foreign country does not allow any criminal records. Police Clearance Certificate is an official document approved by the police or government agencies to prove that you have no criminal offense like arrest, conviction. Additionally, a police clearance certificate is valid for the next 6 months, After 6 months of issue, it will be declared as invalid. See the sample of the Police Clearance Certificate.

6. Bank Statement
A bank statement is mandatory when we go foreign for different purposes like a visitor, a business or immigrants. These rules are not changeable for study. So, students also have to show a bank statement. China has no strict rules that only your parents have to be your sponsor. Anyone can be your sponsor. See the sample of a bank statement.

7. English Proficiency Certificate
For studying in China you must have to submit your English proficient certificate to prove your English skills. It is not mandatory that you must have IELTS, you can take English Proficiency Certificate from your school or university. Additionally, If you have done IELTS or TOFEL you can submit it. See the sample of English proficient certificate.

8. HSK certificate of proficiency in Chinese (if you have)
If you want to study in Chinese taught and want to get CSC scholarship then you must have to submit HSK certificate of proficiency in Chinese. HSK is not mandatory for English taught, but if you have it will be beneficial for you. HSK supervised by the HSK Center of Beijing Language and Culture University to judge the Chinese language skill of non-native speakers. See the sample of HSK certificate of proficiency in Chinese.

9. 2 Recommendation Letter (Ms/Ph.D.)
Students of masters & Ph.D. have to submit two recommendation letters. A recommendation letter is usually written by a supervisor, colleague, and teacher. Two recommendation letters have to be written by two-person. Make sure that the writer knows you very well and you have completed any course with them or work with them.  In the letter mention about your academic and personal traits and emphasize the strengths that are relevant to the major or university where you are applying. Have to maintain a positive and enthusiastic tone about you and include professor’s phone numbers and email addresses. Here is the sample of the Recommendation Letter.

10. Study Plan/ Research Proposal (Ms/PhD)
If you want to apply for MS/Ph.D you must need a study plan or research proposal in Chinese or English (no less than 800 words). A study plan describes in detail what you are going to do with the scholarship. Explain your main educational goal, and how you want to achieve this. And keep in mind that it is very important, that helps in an excellent organization as well as creating a sense of liability in your learning process. This document is needed only for Ms or Ph.D applicants, so please make sure that your study plan or research proposal states that information as specific as possible. See the sample of Study Plan.

11. Study Gap Certificates
Study gap certificate is an affidavit that is used to show a gap in education or further study. Gap certificate provides your statement on the non-judicial stamp paper stating the reason for taking the gap and claim that you did not take admission to any other college, university or courses during the gap year. You can get this stamp paper from any notary, sub-registry office or court and contact with an advocate they will prepare your gap certificate.

12. Application Form
Fills this form in Chinese or English language. It is essential to fill all the information that should be very authentic. 

Central South University as setting up a series of scholarship schemes to sponsor international students and scholars to undertake studies and research.  

Application Requirements

1. Applicants should have to be non-Chinese or foreigners, hold a valid foreign passport and meet the appropriate requirements of studying abroad in China. 
2. Applicants should be  friendly to China and be in good health
3. Applicants should have received an undergraduate program or long term language must have a senior high school diploma and are under the age of 30.
4. Applicants should have excellent academic performance and have a good command of English
5. Law-abiding, diligent and studious, good grades and good conduct.

Application Materials   

1. Application Form.
2. Scan copy of notarized highest diploma and transcripts.
3. San copy of Study Plan or Research Proposal (800 words or above).
4. Two Recommendation Letters (written in Chinese or English) signed by a professor or an associate professor who knows you.
5. Scan copy of Foreigner Physical Examination Form or Blood Examination Report or notarized photocopy.
6. Student under 18 should have to submit relevant legal documents from their guardians.

The final information is subject to the University If there is any inconsistency!

Central South University (中南大学) is located in Changsha, Hunan Province, a famous historical and cultural city in China. It is the only deputy national key university in Hunan Province under the direct management of the central government and the Ministry of Education. The national “211 Project”, “985 Project”, The “2011 Plan” is the first batch of universities to be built. The “111 Plan”, “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan”, “Excellent Doctor Education and Training Plan”, and “Excellent Legal Personnel Education and Training Plan” have been selected as universities. The Ministry of Information Technology and the Hunan Provincial Tripartite Key Joint University.

 On April 29, 2000, Central South University (中南大学) was formed by the merger of Central South University of Technology, Hunan Medical University, and Changsha Railway College in the restructuring of the national colleges and universities. Its earliest traces go back to Hunan Advanced Industrial School and Xiangya Medical College, which were founded in 1903 and 1914, respectively.

After more than 100 years of development, the school has the world’s most complete nonferrous metallurgy discipline system chain. It has a world-renowned Xiangya medical and medical group and it has a research base for China’s high-speed railway, plateau railway, and heavy-duty transportation. At present, the school is forging ahead towards the goal of a world-class university.

The school has a full range of disciplines, and has a complete non-ferrous metal, medical, rail transportation and other discipline systems, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, medicine, management, arts and other 10 university disciplines, radiation Military science. The school adheres to the strategy of strengthening the school by talents and has strong teachers. There are 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 54 special professors and lecturers of the Cheung Kong Scholars Award Scheme and 26 winners of the National Outstanding Young Scientists Fund.

It is the first in China to establish an experimental class of innovative senior engineering talents and has become a pilot university for education and training programs for outstanding engineers, physicians, and legal talents of the Ministry of Education. The school is one of the first universities in the country to pilot an eight-year medical education, and it is also the first university in the country to train active-duty military officers for a master’s degree.

Schools adhere to open schools, international cooperation and cross-flow activity, has with the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Russia, and other 40 countries and regions, 200 to establish a long-term relationship many universities and research institutions, Extensive industry-university-research cooperation with many multinational enterprise groups. There are currently international students from more than 100 countries and regions studying at school.

Central South University (中南大学) is shouldering the historical responsibility of building a high-level university in the country. Based on Hunan, facing the country and the world, it will accelerate the comprehensive reform and connotative development of the university and strive to build its characteristics A distinctive world-class university, making greater contributions to the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.