Abstract
Running satellite campuses in different locations is a regular feature in Chinese society nowadays due to the combined result of the complexities in enrolling students, the restricted scale of schooling, geographical limitations, and government policies. With the Reform and Opening-up, some of China's underdeveloped cities have become new economic engines. At the same time, their lack of higher education resources has limited their development. However, some colleges and universities have started satellite campuses to break through these limitations. The Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), co-founded by the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) and the Shenzhen Municipal Government, is a satellite campus of Harbin Institute of Technology. The paper summarised and sorted out the existing studies, interviewed the students of the Shenzhen campus of the Harbin Institute of Technology. Through studying the current situation, existing problems and their causes have been analysed. It was concluded that the current crisis facing the Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) revolves around the following points: brand awareness, school size, government policies, international situation, as well as faculty and campus management. Based on the research findings, it was recommended that Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) improve their brand marketing, expand the scale, train teachers further, upgrade risk management and research, and put forward concrete measures for several aspects of the negotiations.
 
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Highlights
Due to higher education’s continuing development, universities worldwide have increasingly expanded to larger and more complex systems (Kyvik, 2004; Morphew, Fumasoli, and Stensaker, 2018; Teichler, 2004)
Higher education in China follows the trend of opening satellite campuses
This study focused on the case of Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) which was established under these circumstances, and is a touchstone for running satellite campuses in different cities
Summary
Due to higher education’s continuing development, universities worldwide have increasingly expanded to larger and more complex systems (Kyvik, 2004; Morphew, Fumasoli, and Stensaker, 2018; Teichler, 2004). In this context, satellite university campuses have been an increasingly common characteristic of higher education worldwide. Local governments’ main reasons to introduce colleges and universities are as follows: cities’ administrative level is raised. They hope to elevate the image, stature, and culture of cities by establishing colleges. Due to the favourable natural geographical environment, developed economic and social conditions, and preferential policies offered in many aspects such as academics, wages, housing, and so on, myriads of high-calibres students and professors from the three provinces in Northeast China have flocked to eastern and coastal areas with welldeveloped economies, which has led to a decrease in the number of elites who choose universities in Northeast (Zhang Yu and Liu Hehui, 2019)
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