本文根據美國跨境教育研究小組和英國無邊界高等教育觀察組織的統計數據,分析研究了美國大學海外分校在全球的擴張歷史和戰略,試圖揭示和解釋在不同的歷史時期和地區,美國大學海外分校呈現的不同興趣傾向和擴張重點,從中可以清晰地看到,美國大學海外分校的建立不可避免地裹挾著美國國家的戰略部署意圖和意識形態的輸出,但全球競爭、經濟利益和國家安全仍然是美國大學建立海外分校的最直接驅動力。

According to the statistical data from the Cross-Border Education Research Team and the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, this paper analyzes the history and the strategy of the global expansion of the international branch campuses established by American higher education institutions, and reveals and explains that American universities have being showing the distinct interest tendency and expansion focus in different historical periods and regions. Based on the above analysis, it is obvious that the export of international branch campuses would inevitably carry the strategic intent and ideological output of U.S. However, the essential factors that prompt American universities to set up branch campuses abroad are global competition, economic interests and national security, which could provide reference for the import of foreign educational resources in China and the export of China’s higher education to the world.