To enrich students’ academic and cultural experience and promote an internationalized university life, CityU has been proactive in establishing two-way student exchange links with prominent universities all over the world. MEAO serves as the window of CityU to the outside world, cultivating student exchange agreements between CityU and universities outside Hong Kong. CityU has general exchange agreements and student exchange agreements with some 290 partner institutions worldwide as at November 2011. In 2010- 2011, a total of 680 students went to North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, and a total of 613 students came from the Mainland and overseas for exchange.