Archive · 01
Exit & Failure Case Studies
Branch campus closures, partnership dissolutions and programme withdrawals — reconstructed from official records, contemporaneous reporting and regulatory actions. Each entry identifies the institutional actors, the sequence of events, the regulatory context, and the structural risk factors that the episode revealed. This is the scarcest content category in both English and Chinese-language TNE resources, and the archive's highest priority for original research.
- SG · branch campus · closed
NYU Tisch Asia (Singapore, 2014): A Branch Campus Closed by Financial Unsustainability
A documented case of an offshore branch campus closure distinct from UNSW Asia — New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Asia in Singapore, announced for winding-down in 2012 and fully closed by 2014 after recurring multi-million-dollar subsidies.
- CN · joint programme · withdrawn
Termination of a Sino-Foreign Cooperative Education Programme: The PKU–University of Hong Kong Dental Master's (2018)
A documented case of a single Sino-foreign cooperative education programme closed by Ministry of Education approval — the Peking University–University of Hong Kong Master of Dental Surgery programme, terminated in the 2018 batch of 234 approved discontinuations.
- SG · branch campus · closed
UNSW Asia (Singapore, 2007): The Withdrawal That Reshaped Branch Campus Risk Calculus
A detailed reconstruction of the University of New South Wales Asia campus closure — the first major branch campus failure in transnational education, and the event that forced host regulators to formalise financial sustainability requirements.