Can foreign branch campuses be research universities?

By Agustian Sutrisno. Many international branch campuses, or IBCs, are established by research-intensive universities in their home countries, such as Monash University Malaysia and NYU Abu Dhabi. There are also cases when a partnership needs to be formed between foreign and local universities – Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou is an example of an IBC whose ‘parent’ universities are both classified as research universities. More...