LUSM undergraduate student Guangya Liu, majored in information management and information system has been selected for participation in the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program, (Global UGRAD) funded by the United States Department of State to study in the Tennessee Technological University in fall 2019. He is the first student in LUSM who has been accepted by the program.

The Global UGRAD program is a fully-funded academic and cultural exchange program which provides one semester scholarships to outstanding undergraduate students from 60+ countries around the world for non-degree full-time study combined with community service, professional development, and cultural enrichment. Each year, around 253 Global UGRAD students were placed to study at around 70 different universities in the US.