

In terms of international development, the university has established friendly cooperative relations with 24 overseas universities or scientific institution, including Chatham University in the US, University of Central Lancashire in the UK, Management and Science University in the Malaysia, etc. After it was granted the qualification of recruiting foreign teachers in 2015, recruiting international students in 2017, SQMC made its way into the World Directory of Medical Schools (WDMS) of WHO in 2018, and embarked on recruiting international students in the same year. Afterwards, its Chinese-Foreign Cooperative Nursing program was approved in 2019 to admit Chinese students, followed by another joint program with University of Bedfordshire of the UK in 2020. The same year then witnessed SQMC's joining into the World Higher Education Database of the International Association of Universities (IAU) supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO). Up to now, the school has recruited 182 students from 15 countries, including India and Indonesia etc.