User Growth has soared by over 50 times - CUSSA Makes Studies Abroad Much Easier

CUSSA is a summer program that enables students to graduate quickly and save a lot of money by students’ earning credits during vacations in home country. With this business alone, the number of users has increased 50 times, and it is reported that CUSSA has become the largest program in the field of summer school with the most campuses in 2018.

(Professor Jack from Yale University is giving a lecture on Introduction to Psychology to CUSSA students in Shanghai.)

8 years ago, very few people could accept that the students entering universities would return to Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and other domestic universities in the summer to take credit courses offered by professors from North American universities. Facing the “back-end study abroad market", CUSSA grew quickly into a unicorn company within a few years. The growth potential of CUSSA is beyond everyone's imagination.

Eight years of growth as an industry leader

In 2011, the China University Summer Schools Association (CUSSA) was launched in Wuhan with over 200 students who successfully participated in the program and transferred their credits back to their universities abroad.

Thus, the founder, Li Lin, a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh, landed on the ground with the idea of introducing summer schools to China, and from there began a wild ride, doubling the number of students in the second and third years.

In the past 8 years, 10,000+ international students from overseas universities have successfully completed the program and earned credits from overseas universities. With many years of successful experience and internationally recognized faculties, CUSSA has been accredited by the Ministry of Education, WES, AACSB, JS&A, CHESICC, IERF and many other international authorities. At present, it has become the largest and most successful international summer school in China.

6 features to solve 3 study issues

At present, CUSSA has 3 major programs - CUSSA North American Summer School, CUSSA Australian Summer School, and CUSSA North American Winter School, all of which are under enrollment. CUSSA provides customized services for Chinese students from different areas such as North America and Australia and helps overseas students to make use of vacations to earn credits, save money, and graduate early.

According to the introduction, the CUSSA program has 6 main features:

(1)Fast graduation. Students can take up to 6 courses in two phases and get up to 24 credits (3 courses in one phase) to graduate early.

(2)Less cost. The tuition fee per credit is about 1/3 of the average overseas tuition fee, which enables students to save a lot of money.

(3)Easy to learn difficult courses. Students can choose to customize courses that are too difficult, so that they can solve the problem of failing graduation due to specific over-difficult courses.

(4)Famous professors worldwide. Instructors come from famous universities all over the world, such as the North American Ivy League to help students prepare for their graduate studies.

(5)Make international friends. Students can get to know their study abroad buddies from different countries and widen their social circle.

(6)Experience overseas courses in advance (for prospective students). Prospective students will adapt to overseas education and earn credits in advance, laying a solid foundation for the upcoming study abroad life.

These six features precisely address the 3 major issues of international students: difficulty in enrollment, difficulty in credits, and difficulty in employment. CUSSA provides comprehensive support from familiarizing with overseas education mode, assisting in successful completion of studies, and making connections to expand employment space.
First-tier brand highlights the growth potential

Up to now, CUSSA has cooperated with dozens of famous universities and colleges such as Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ocean University of China, Shanghai Normal University, Chongqing University, Sichuan Normal University, Nanchang University, Beijing University of Technology, and Sun Yat-sen University (Taiwan), covering 11 major cities in China. This year, we have also opened up the option of online courses for students from some foreign universities.

In terms of courses, CUSSA offers a wide range of courses, such as calculus, psychology, philosophy, art, history and other general courses, as well as some professional courses in business and engineering.

What's worth mentioning is that this year, there is also a U.S. Cooperative Campus, which opens a new fast track to transfer credits for Chinese students who are only accepted by U.S. university transfer schools. Whether you are from a top school like Harvard-Columbia, a professional art school like Parsons, a college of arts and sciences, or a community college, you can participate in the program and earn credits for overseas graduation.

The rapid and steady development of the program has attracted the industry's attention, not only because of CUSSA’s luck, but also because of its model. It is reported that in the next few years, CUSSA will be gradually extended to Europe and other regions in addition to North America and Australia. In the second half of this year, CUSSA's study abroad brand and international student job search brand will be launched one after another, providing more professional and high-qualified services to overseas Chinese students and prospective students, making study abroad and life abroad no longer difficult.

Even under the situation of Covid-19 economic conflict and the trend of world economic integration, it is believed that the international education market will explode with greater growth. CUSSA, as a leading brand, will exert its advantages in terms of volume and continue to expand the boundaries of the international study market.