Title: A university internationalization strategy: the case of Dalian Ocean University (DOU).

Internationalization has become a trend of development in higher education. It links to the international standards and addresses global development in sustainable ideas and international activities. Basing on the current situation of Dalian Ocean University (DOU), DOU is aiming at developing an internationalization strategy to improve the competition capacity in higher education and fisheries scientific research. By means of the comparison of similarities and differences between Icelandic universities and DOU, the aim was to try to achieve an internationalization strategy which is focusing on the four steps of creation of internationalization atmosphere, construction of teaching and research team, development of international education, promotion of the internationalization idea.