On May 12, Cory Searcy, Assistant Vice President of Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, and Darren Finlay, Associate Director of Transnational Education Partnerships, visited our university. Our Vice President Wang Jianwen held the meeting with the guests in Conference Room 302 of the Dunpin Building.

Wang Jianwen introduced the university's educational conditions, scale of faculty and students, disciplinary classifications, and program characteristics. He expressed the university's hope to establish broader and closer cooperation with Canadian universities. Based on similar programs offered by both universities in business administration, economics, finance, law, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering, potential collaborations could include two-way faculty and student exchanges, short-term exchange programs during winter and summer vacations, and joint research projects. He also suggested exploring the feasibility of jointly establishing the international cooperation programs. Cory Searcy made an introduction to Toronto Metropolitan University, noting that Chinese students constitute the university's second largest international student group, and expressed strong hope for establishing long-term stable faculty and student exchange programs between the two universities.

Toronto Metropolitan University, founded in 1948, is located in downtown Toronto, Canada, with over 40,000 students from more than 140 countries, of which international students account for 25%. The university consists of faculties including Arts, Communication and Design, Community Services, Engineering and Architectural Science, Science and Ted Rogers School of Management. It ranked the 801st in the 2025 QS World University Rankings and the 10th in Maclean's 2024 Canadian Comprehensive University Rankings.