On July 1st, 2003, the “Neusoft IIT First Graduation Ceremony” was held ceremoniously in the world report hall of Neusoft IIT. Dr. Wen Tao, Vice President of Neusoft Group and President of Neusoft IIT, awarded the Bachelor Degrees and Certificates of Honour to the first graduates at the ceremony. They are the first internationalized, pragmatic and individualized multi-disciplinary graduates who were cultivated by Neusoft IIT and guided by the school educational philosophy of “ Education Creates the Values of Students”.

     President Wen Tao said that the first graduates not only proved their ability to society with their effort but also showed our school’s strength. We are so glad and gratified that they stepped into their learning field and well-known overseas and domestic companies such as GE, Neusoft and Dalian Hi-Think Computer Technology Co.Ltd and some students carve out work by themselves. He hopes that the graduates can adjust their attitude and make a new start with a confident, creative and surefooted style. Besides, he stated that the future society is a lifelong learning society. No matter if in the field of IT or some traditional industry, only through perfect our knowledge structure and renewing the knowledge continuously can we obtain the sustaining power of self-development.

    Neusoft IIT has achieved great success in training IT talents during the two years’ since its establishment and development. The first 187 graduates of our institute are about to step into society and their positions, of which 174 are from our top-up program and 13 from our bi-degree program. There are 80 students who majored in computer science and technology and 107 students who majored in information technology and business management. Some of the students had some working experience before they entered the school. So through two more years’ edification of the new-type IT institute, they can not only get overall training on IT knowledge, but also get the specialized and systematized training on the ability of applying IT knowledge, the ability of business management, the ability of communication, and the ability of using English and Japanese.

    2003 is the year in which the number of graduates increased in the largest range after an enlarged enrollment in Chinese universities. The intending number of graduates in the whole Liaoning Province is 100,000, which is 28,000 more than in 2002. Although nowadays the global IT industry has fallen into decline and IT companies employ less and less new personnel, Neusoft’s first graduates are favorites with of Dalian Software Park Co., ltd, GE, TCL, Dalian Neu-Bitco Software Co., Ltd., Edge Software Development (Dalian) Co.,Ltd, Dalian Chinasoft software Co., ltd, KAWASAKA Heavy Industries. ltd, NIDEC(DALIAN) LIMITED, Shanghai ALPS Logistics and so on.

    Tan Qian, a top-up program student of 0101 Information Technology and Business Management, was the director of Study Department of the Neusoft’ Student Union and was the secretary of the Computer Technology Association. She won the first prize in the National English Contest for College Students in July, 2002, and was awarded Neusoft’s 2001-2002 “ ‘three-goods’ student award”, a “Top 10 student award” and a “Special contributive award”. Her outstanding experience and specialized quality attracted GE and has been employed as a Financial Analysis Specialist.

    Four students passed the National Entrance Test for MA/MS Candidates and entered leading universities to further their study. One entered Peking University, one entered Northeastern University and two entered Dalian Maritime University.

    The enterprises are quite satisfied with the graduates’ quality in various aspects, especially with the advantage of their Japanese. The companies in the area of Dalian, especially in the IT circle, have a relatively high requirement of graduates’ Japanese and our institute has strengthened it’s Japanese teaching to cater for the requirement. In the interview of Tianjin Taida Storage and Transport Co., ltd, a graduate of our institute communicated with its Japanese manager in Japanese, which got a favorable comment from the company.

    The companies tested the graduates’ oral English in the interview and their common feeling is that Neusoft’s students can master English well due to the school’s strength in teaching English.

    In order to strengthen the students’ international competitiveness in ensuring the students’ basic knowledge, Neusoft IIT promote students’ value on almost every aspect of specialized knowledge, practical skills, communication ability, work experience and view of science and technology. The innovative “1321” instruction model is 1 academic year of 3 semesters, 2 semesters of theory and 1 semester of internship, which effectively integrates theory and practice. The model fastens the academic process and enables students to participate in the development and practice of the latest technology in“SOVO”（Students Office & Venture Office）and cooperative companies. The successful implementation of the new teaching model established a bridge between theory and practice for the first graduates.

    The undergraduate Start-up center—“SOVO”(students office & venture office) is the most important section of the innovative education module of Neusoft IIT. Through strict engagement and selection, “SOVO” organizes and adds applicants into the “virtual companies”. There even is a “ Board of Director” set up. The V-CEO is responsible for the management of the “virtual company” and the students are given opportunities to take different posts. There are more than 160 graduates who have worked in SOVO and carried through the development and research of the projects under the direction of the tutors. SOVO cultivates students’ entrepreneur spirit, allowing easier access to enterprise culture later, realizing the seamless link with IT industry’s talent needs, strengthening their competitiveness and giving them experience in starting up a company as well. Under the direction of the tutors, two virtual companies have been incubated to real entities among Neusoft’s first graduates through two years of practice. Using management experience, communication and project development in the virtual company of SOVO,V-CEO, Guo Lei, V-PM Liu Weifeng of v “SUN SERVER Co.,ltd” and V-CTO Dai Yue invited twelve students to step onto the real carve-out road with the dream of starting their own enterprise.

    The Neusoft’s first graduates who were born from the “1321”instruction model has obtained the high evaluations of the companies through two year’s education of the absolutely new teaching philosophy. The companies appraised that Neusoft’s graduates were very practical and possessed the good qualities in engaging in the IT industry. The first graduates made the institute’s teaching philosophy pass the test of the market successfully. The teaching philosophy catered to the requirement of companies and showed the foresight and correctness of the teaching mode, which stresses cultivating pragmatic, internationalized and individualized talents.

    In addition, the 187 graduates have graduated and we wish the graduates of 2003 smooth sailing.