What type of degree to take?

[imron]

I hope Josh documents his account of the visit

If nothing else, an update to the original thread regarding PSB registration would be helpful to future readers I'm sure

[rob07]

I'd recommend staying away from studying law in China. It's mostly taught by black-letter law and rote memorization, as opposed to the more effective case studies method.

My understanding is that while foreigners can study law at a Chinese university, they are not eligible to take the bar exams in China so cannot qualify to practice as lawyers there. Plus the bar exam is extremely tough - pass rate under 25%, which itself is up from less than 10% about 10 years ago. More reasons to stay away.

[gato]

That's a second reason. It the course itself was good, then it might still be worthwhile regardless of the bar qualification requirements. The course is pretty worthless across the board, I am afraid to say, even at the top law schools.

[skylee]

The course is pretty worthless across the board, I am afraid to say, even at the top law schools.

Is that because the rule of law in China sucks?

[gato]

Is that because the rule of law in China sucks?

That's one reason, which makes it hard for law professor to teach law as practiced in China. What they try to teach instead is a very jumbled and abstract version of "legal theory", which most of them do not really understand clearly anyway because they themselves had an inadequate legal education. The incredible pace of expansion of law schools has made things much worse. Before 1990s, there were only about six law schools in China. Today there are hundreds. The number of students has probably multiplied several hundred fold. It means that the schools can't hire enough qualified teachers and the teachers don't have enough resources for teaching. Most of them many very little salary from teaching and have to get outside jobs to make ends meet, or in the case of a few, to make good money outside by using their academic affiliation.

[mikad0]

(I'm in the economics discipline, and I happen to know that a good handful of Chinese universities train their students very well and to a competitive international standard. Others provide training which is so-so with a bunch of ideology thrown in.)

Hello,

Sorry to bring this post up, but I am myself interested in applying for master degree in Economics in China. I looked up a few universities but getting reviews, reputation, doesn't seem an easy task. I end up with 2 choices: Wuhan and Xiamen. I would like to know if you got any thoughts on those two or recommending other universities?