xjtlu’s first batch of students graduated in august 2010 with 97 percent continuing their studies overseas on masters or doctorate programmes, ten percent of whom went to study at universities ranked in the world’s top ten (based on the university ranking chart by the times, 2010). december 2010 saw xjtlu invest six million rmb in research for academic performance. by january 2011, xjtlu headed the list of top 10 sino-foreign cooperative universities in china.