The Macao Polytechnic Institute (IPM) and the Shanghai University of Sport (SUS), along with the support from the Ministry of Education of China and the local government, have officially launched the Master of Physical Education last week.
Professor Lei Heong Iok, president of IPM, and Dr Pei-Jie Chen, president of SUS, attended the program’s opening ceremony.
IPM outlined in a statement that students who have obtained the required credits and who have completed the training program will be awarded the Master of Physical Education by SUS.
The two collaborating institutions believe that through this joint effort, the program will cultivate more high-level sports professionals in the region.
Established in 1952, SUS was the first university of its kind in China. Since then, SUS has grown into a “comprehensive, multi-disciplinary university” with sports science being its core specialization and education, literature and management being its three major disciplines. According to the statement, SUS is China’s first higher education institute in the field of sports science being granted the rights to award master’s degrees and doctoral degrees. It is also China’s only university being authorized to confer PhD degrees in all four second-category PhD programs under the sports discipline.
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