The Yenching Academy (sometimes abbreviated as YCA, also Yanjing Academy or Yanjing College; Chinese: 燕京学堂, pinyin: Yānjīng Xuétáng) is an elite postgraduate college of Peking University (PKU), located in Beijing, China. It hosts the Yenching Program, a highly selective, fully funded global fellowship program, designed "to cultivate leaders who will advocate for global progress and cultural understanding." The Academy offers Yenching Scholars, selected annually from around the world, with full scholarships for one year of study leading to a master's degree from Peking University, China's "most prestigious" and "first modern" university. At its launch, then Peking University President Wang Enge described it as the "most ambitious academic initiative PKU has launched since the turn of the ne