Tsinghua is a large ecosystem of students, faculty, and institutions. The campus is roughly the size of my entire university city back in Switzerland. Studying here means choosing between a dozen-plus canteens in the morning, cycling to class, working alongside motivated peers, and joining extracurriculars like freediving. The learning goes beyond academics: it's also about adapting to a different way of living and sharing a campus with people from all over the world. That mix of cultures is constant. Tsinghua also lets students take courses across departments, which is how I ended up in a enriching class on global biodiversity conservation.

——Melissa Lelli from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland