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International Branch Campuses, Management of

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Branch institutions; Cross-border education; Foreign campuses; Off-shore campuses; Transnational education

Definition

An international branch campus is a higher education institution which is at least part owned by and offers the academic qualifications of a university based in another country.

Introduction

International branch campuses (IBCs) are essentially offshore subsidiaries of a university. The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (OBHE) and the Cross-Border Education Research Team (C-BERT), the two leading research groups monitoring the growth of IBCs, define an IBC as “an entity that is owned, at least in part, by a foreign education provider; operated in the name of the foreign education provider; and provides an entire academic program, substantially on site, leading to a degree awarded by the foreign education provider” (Garrett et al. 2016). In its latest survey, C-BERT identified 248 operational IBCs, 41 IBCs which have closed and a further 22 pending...

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  1. Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji

    Nigel Healey

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  1. Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Hans De Wit

  2. Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA

    Laura Rumbley

  3. Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Lombardy, Italy

    Fiona Hunter

  4. Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

    Lisa Unangst

  5. Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

    Edward Choi

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Healey, N. (2018). International Branch Campuses, Management of. In: Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_253-1

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