The Ateneo has partnered with several international institutions in offering certain degree programs. In 2006, the Ateneo partnered with the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou to establish a Confucius Institute. The institute has since offered Mandarin Chinese courses, a Masters in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language program, and a scholarship grant for students to study in Chinese colleges and universities. Since 2018, the Ateneo Department of Information Systems and Computer Science has partnered with the Queen Mary University of London in the UK to offer a double degree Master of Science in Innovation through Media Arts Technology and Master of Science in Media and Arts Technology. In 2019, the ventured with French culinary school Le Cordon Bleu to establish the Le Cordon Bleu Ateneo de Manila Institute at the Areté, which offers a Bachelor of Science in Restaurant Entrepreneurship that adheres to requirements from Le Cordon Bleu. The institute also offers Le Cordon Bleu's "Diplôme de Cuisine", "Diplôme de Pâtisserie", and "Grand Diplôme" professional degrees at the Center for Continuing Education at the Graduate School of Business. Other universities that the Ateneo has partnered with to offer joint master's degree programs are the École supérieure des sciences commerciales d'Angers in France for a Master in Management, Kyushu University in Japan for a Master of Laws, the Regis University in Denver for a Master of Business Administration, and the University of Sydney in Australia for a Master of Human Rights and Democratization.