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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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| Motto: | Hands on the Present and Eyes for the Future |
| Established | 1991 |
| Type: | Public |
| Chancellor: | Donald Tsang |
| President: | Paul Chu |
| Faculty: | 453 |
| Students: | 9,000 |
| Undergraduates: | 5,772 |
| Postgraduates: | 3,228 |
| Location | Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong |
| Campus: | Urban 60 hectares (600,000m²) |
| Affiliations: | ASAIHL, APRU |
| Website: | www.ust.hk |
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST, or UST) was established in 1991 under Hong Kong Law Cap. 1141 (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Ordinance), as one of eight universities in Hong Kong. The current president is Professor Paul Ching-wu Chu.
Academically, the university has been ranked as among the top three universities in Hong Kong and one of the most prestigious universities in Asia. In 2005, the Times Higher Education Supplement ranked it 43rd in the world. [1] Many of its programs rank among the top in terms of admission scores for local applicants through JUPAS. Recently,the university is attracting more and more international students from different continents. In last two years, HKUST became famous among high schools in mainland China, and attracted a lot of outstanding students to HKUST.
Dominating the university's entrance plaza is a huge red sundial, which has become a distinguishing symbol of the university since its construction. As of January 2007, HKUST is home to 9,000 students and 453 faculty members.
In late 1980s the Hong Kong Government anticipated a strong demand for university graduates to fuel an information based economy. Sze-Yuen Chung and the Governor of Hong Kong Edward Youde conceived the idea of adding a third university to the existing system. With the vision of establishing a world-class technology university, planning for the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology began in 1986.
Construction began at the former British garrison Kohima Camp in Tai Po Tsai along the Clear Water Bay Peninsula. Originally scheduled to finish in 1994, the death of Youde in 1986 inspired escalated efforts and the opening date was changed to 1991 - just five years later.
The project drew heavy criticism as it the surpassed budget originally established by Hong Kong Government and Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, leading some to derisively call the school "Rolls Royce University" (勞斯萊斯大學, after the prestigious and expensive car brand).
However, under fund raising efforts of first Vice-Chancellor Woo Chia-wei, the university opened it doors to the first students in October of 1991. By 1992, accommodations expanded to support 7,000 students and full athletic facilities. The campus covers an area 35,000 square meters and construction is expected to be completed by 2008.
- Successful fabrication of the world's smallest single-walled carbon nanotubes (0.4nm) that can revolutionise microcomputers and other ultra-thin electronic devices, and the discovery that these nanotubes are superconducting
- Development of a new generation of dielectric electrorheological (ER) fluids, which can change within milliseconds into a solid state
- Development of a genechip technology for the identification, quality assurance, and standardization of traditional Chinese medicine
- Development of a fast motion estimation algorithm recognized as part of MPEG-4, the international standard for multimedia applications
- EEE faculty ranked No.1 among top universities worldwide in the number of papers published in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices during 1998-2002
- In 2005, the School of Engineering (SENG) ranked No.20 in the World's Top 100 Universities in Engineering & IT league table. The rankings were published by The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) in December and HKUST was the only Hong Kong institution ranked in the top 50.
- Accounting faculty ranked first in the world for publications in the top five accounting research journals (2000 and 2001)
- Top in Asia Pacific for research output in the world's three most important finance journals, and for research papers published in 30 most important economic journals (2002)
- The Kellogg-HKUST EMBA program ranked No.1 in the world by Financial Times (2007)
- Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked its MBA program in No. 1 in Asia, No. 20 in the world (2007)
- The MBA program ranked No. 44 in the world by Financial Times (2005)
- The School of Business and Management placed first in Asia Pacific by Financial Times (2001-2003 MBA average rank)
- Customized executive education ranked first in Asia Pacific by Financial Times (2003 and 2004)
- In 2005, the School retained its No. 1 position in the category of "International Experience" according to the Financial Times newspaper. Its research capability remains top 20 in the world. The career progression that its graduates enjoys is ranked No. 8 in the world.
- School research ranked No. 25 in the world by University of Texas at Dallas (2005)
- The School of Humanities and Social Science, along with Harvard and Stanford, ranked in the top five in the world for the number of research papers published in the three most prestigious China studies journals between 1997 and 2001
The university campus occupies a 60-hectare (150-acre) site which is divided into a several sections: Academic building, S.H.Ho Sports hall, Student halls, outdoor sports facilities, university center, apartments, staff quarters and the President's lodge.
Smoking has been prohibited in the university both indoors and outdoors since the Legislative Council passed into law the Smoking (Public Health) (Amendment) Bill 2005 on October 19, 2006.
The Academic building is where all the lecture theaters and classrooms are located, there are 10 lecture theaters (Lecture theater A - H, J, K) in total, with maximum capacity more than 400. Nearby lift's numbers are always provided to help students searching for the location of classrooms and administration offices. The Academic building has expanded significantly throughout the years with new phases under development. A new phase has been opened recently with classrooms (now only 4619,4620,4621), labs and two new lecture theaters, LT J and K.
The HKUST Library, established in 1991, is one of the university libraries in Hong Kong. It occupies a central location of the campus. There are five floors with over 10,000 square metres of floor space, providing 1,850 seats and a computer lab. In 2005, the Library has a collection of more than 610,000 volumes of books and bound periodicals, as well as a collection of electronic and non-print materials.
Library Collection
．633,000 volumes of printed books and journals
．350,000 units of microforms
．25,000 titles of media resources
．99,000 titles of resources via internet
The Library has:
．1,800 seats, including 650 study carrels for individual use
．12 rooms for group study and discussion
．A fully equipped classroom and a computer laboratory for group instruction
．Self-service photocopiers on every floor
．Wireless Internet connection
There are six undergraduate student halls in the university: UG Hall One, UG Hall II - IV, PG Hall II and New Hall. Except the New Hall, all halls have their own House Students' Association which organizes various activities throughout the academic year for every member of their own hall. New Hall is newly built and opened in 2004, New Hall's warden, Computer Science Prof.CK Tang, doesn't permit the estabilsh of House Students' Association, which he claimed will damage the study atmosphere. Each floor has their own floor committee among the six UG Hall and is equipped with common room, washroom and bathroom.
UG Hall One is nearest to the campus. There are only twin bedrooms without any triple bedrooms. UG Hall II is in the middle of the halls and is both close to the campus and the sports ground and is the first estableshed house. It has twin rooms and triple rooms and 9 floor committees including Mang Nam Club (猛男會) etc. All rooms are either facing towards the hill and the sea. UG Hall III is nearest to the sea. UG Hall IV is nearest to the outdoor sports facilities. PG Hall II is reconstructed to bunked bedrooms for undergraduate students. There is also a band room in PG Hall II. New Hall is the newest UG student hall. The Seafront Cafeteria is located at G/F of New Hall.
The five houses all provide residents with services in their snack shop. UG Hall I's snack shop is on the G/F, named Sok Yut Siu(宿一宵). UG Hall II's snack shop is on the 2/F, named Dim Siu Yi (店小二). There is a printer and copier machine in snack shop and the price is the lowest in campus during the snack shop hours (Sunday - Friday, 11PM - 2AM). UG Hall III's snack shop is on the G/F, named 3-Dor (三多) which provides low-priced snacks (including ice-cream) and drinks from 10pm - 2am, Sunday to Thursday. UG Hall IV's snack shop is on the G/F, named Low Say (老四). PG Hall II's snack shop is named Ng Zon Miu (五臟廟).
The names of the halls and responsible House Students' Association are as follows:
UG Hall One : (社一) The Undergraduate House One Students' Associaiton, HKUSTSU ([2])
UG Hall II : (翱峰) VERTEX, House II Students' Association, HKUSTSU ([3])
UG Hall III : (冰川) Glacier, HOUSE III Students' Association, HKUSTSU([4])
UG Hall IV : (嶄越) Vista, House IV Students' Association, HKUSTSU ([5])
PG Hall II : (卓毅) Endeavour, House V Students' Association, HKUSTSU ([6])
On the ground floor of Hall VI (New Hall) is the Seafront Cafeteria. It is the only place to eat among the Undergraduate Student Halls. After 9 p.m, most students living in hall will choose to have meals there because all restaurants except McDonalds have already closed after that time.
PG Hall I : Stephen Kam Chuen Cheong Hall
There are four university apartment towers, Tower A, B, C and D. The towers A and B are for postgraduate students, international students. Tower C and D are for visiting staffs and junior professors. There is an Uni-Bar in Tower C, with the best ocean view.
Located on LG1, the Health Center consists of the Medical Clinic, the Student Dental Clinic and the Staff Dental Clinic. It can only be reached by lift no. 4 next to the Indoor Sports Complex.
The Medical Clinic provides free out-patient service to full-time students. Specialist services in Allergy, Dermatology, ENT (Ear, Nose & Throat), Internal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Respiratory Medicine, Surgery and Physiotherapy are also available subject to a charge.
ITSC operates and manages three computer barns for students access.
The Undergraduate Unix Time-sharing Systems pool in HKUST consists of 2 SUN Sparc systems running with Solaris 9.
There are six restaurants and one food court in the campus. All restaurants are managed by The Campus Services Office (CSO) in the university.
The Student Canteen at LG7 includes four lunchroom: a fast food store (Asia Pacific), one Chinese style and a western style (Deli).
The Food Court business at LG5 is participated by a large variety of restaurants. There are fast food (McDonalds's), Japanese food, Thai food and also Chinese food (Gold Rice Bowl Food Centre).
There are three restaurants at LG1, one is western style (Maxim's) and two are Chinese style (one of which is HKUST Restaurant).
The one at the ground floor is the HKUST Restaurant (China Garden). People go there to Yum cha. It is commented as the highest quality and most expensive place for meals in the campus.
University centre locates outside the acadeic building. It is next to the towers.
Coffee Shop at the first floor serves western food, such as sandwiches, salad and pasta. There is also a stand next to its entrance.
Seafront Cafeteria situated at the side of undergraduate halls. Its opening hour is 6:00pm to 2:00am. It is a Chinese style restaurant. It serves both dinner and dessert.
Sports and Recreation Facilities are free for students and staffs to use. Bookings of the facilities can be done seven days in advance through the Facilities Booking System. Some sports equipments are also available for users to borrow when needed (However, the borrowing service of squash racket has been terminated by the university without notification of any reason to students). For the people who are not the students and the staffs of the HKUST wish to use the sports and recreational facilities, they are required to pay twenty dollars fee for the whole day to use all the sports and recreational facilities.
The Coastal Marine Laboratory (CML) was established in April 2002 to provide cutting-edge facilities for frontier marine science research in Hong Kong and other parts of Southern China. The CML brings together regional and international scientists and graduate students from various fields of marine sciences, with major foci on marine natural products, antifouling, biogeochemistry, eutrophication and red tides, and environmental impact assessment.
The CML has a number of unique features:
- Location on the shoreline of Port Shelter which provides direct access to high quality seawater
- On campus site to allow access to the existing major research infrastructure of the University a large-scale aquarium to support a board diversity of research activities
- Close vicinity to a variety of marine habitats
HKUST's academic and research programs, with universities worldwide, creates an international environment for faculty, students and staff.
School of Business
- Internationalization is an integral element of the undergraduate experience. The importance of allowing students to learn global perspectives first-hand by immersing themselves in another culture is highly recognized. To support this objective is the Business School's long established exchange program. The School has the most extensive student exchange network in Asia, with close to 100 partner schools worldwide. Our partners consist of highly-renowned universities in America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Continuing negotiations for new exchanges agreements mean a constantly widening choice of options for students.
- Around 2,000 students have been chosen for academic exchanges since the program's inception in 1995. Every year close to 400 undergraduates, that is over half of the School's BBA/BSc student population, spend a semester at renowned Business Schools overseas. To allow for greater global exposure, some students can be selected for two semester exchanges at separate universities in two different continents.
- With such a large exchange program, HKUST Business School provides an environment for both outgoing and incoming students to broaden their horizons.
School of Engineering The School of Engineering provides exchange programs with many top US universities and a few other universities in Europe such as Cornell, Rice University, Georgia Inst. of Technology, UC Berkeley, etc. The program is usually one-year long allowing the participants to fully experience the local culture and lifestyle. The school also provide exchange programs in mainland China which is more popular among local Hong Kong students while full time mainland China based students accounts more for the participants in oversea exchange-out program.
School of Science In school of science, the exchange program is organized by Science for Success.
- Enrichment activities provided by business school offer students valuable opportunity to broaden eye horizon, and acquire a wider range of knowledge other than concentrating a specific discipline.
- Enrichment program consists of seven different activities, which are:
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Students' Union (HKUSTSU) consists of four mutually independent bodies, the Executive Committee, the Council, the Editorial Board and the Court. Each of them has different functions in the Union. All students' societies are affiliated under Students' Union
It is the executive branch in the Students' Union. It consists of different standing committees to take care with different issues regarding the Union and its members such as:
- Academic Affairs
- External and Current Affairs
- International Affairs
- Public Relations
- Publication
- Social Activities
- Orientation Affairs
- University Affairs
- Welfare Matters
The Council acts as the legislature branch, which is responsible for legislation and regulation of finance and operations of Union. Its duties include:
- Hold all elections regarding Students' Union
- Consideration and approval of applications for affiliation to the Union
- Supervision, advice, proposing and passing rules and regulations on all sub-organizations
- Interpretation of and proposing amendment to the Constitution of Union
- Consideration and approval of Master Budget of the Union
- Consideration and approval of application of Union subsidies
In order to practice the above duties, the Council has four standing committees. They are Affiliated Societies Committee, Constitution Committee, Election Committee and Finance Committee.
Editorial Board(EB) maintains the official publication of Union. Its main functions are:
- Promotion of the objects of the Union
- Providing chances for and encourage free expressions of opinion by students
It is the judiciary body of HKUSTSU. Its main duties are:
- Settle disputes within the Union
- Provide interpretation to the Constitution
Different from other bodies, the Court holds office from arbitration to arbitration.
The application of Students' Societies in HKUST are approved by the Students' Union Council. They are the affiliated societies of the Students' Union. Student can join the Societies freely during the orientation period. At that time, Societies will design different membership package to attract students join in. After being a member, student can participate in different functions freely or at discount price which organized by the that society.
There are five types of Affiliated Societies of Students' Union in HKUST.
- Independent Clubs Association and Independent Clubs
- Sports Association and Sports Clubs
- House Associations
- Departmental Societies
- School Societies
Independent Clubs Association and Independent Clubs are the interest club for the students, such as the AIESEC-LC-HKUST, the Band Society, the Drama Society and the Magic Club. Now there are over 30 independent clubs at HKUST, which make great contribution to the diversity of campus life. The functions provided by them also enrich the students in a variety of ways.
A list of the Independent Clubs Association and Independent Clubs in HKUST:
Independent Clubs Association, HKUSTSU
Campus Crusade for Christ, HKUSTSU
Chinese Culture Society, HKUSTSU
Chinese Folk Art Society, HKUSTSU
Comic and Animation Club, HKUSTSU
Culinary Art and Culture Society, HKUSTSU
Current Affairs Research Enlightenment, HKUSTSU
People's Campus Radio Society, HKUSTSU
Rotaract Club of HKUST, HKUSTSU
Student Christian Fellowship, HKUSTSU
Student Social Service Society, HKUSTSU
Students' Internet Society, HKUSTSU
The Hong Kong Award of Young People User Unit, HKUSTSU
University Philharmonic Orchestra, HKUSTSU
Sports Association and Sports Clubs are the students' societies that promote sports activities to students. A list of the Sports Association and Sports Clubs in HKUST:
Distance Runners'Club, HKUSTSU
Shaolin Martial Arts Society, HKUSTSU
Sport Climbing Students' Society, HKUSTSU
Student Basketball Club, HKUSTSU
Students' Badminton Club, HKUSTSU
Students' Football Club, HKUSTSU
Students' Swimming Club, HKUSTSU
Wing Chun Martial Arts Society, HKUSTSU
House Association is the students' society of the undergraduate student hall. Each undergraduate student hall would have its own House which is responsible to organize extra-circular activities for the House Association's members. Since the New Hall is the newly built undergraduate student hall, it does not have its own house for organizing activities.
- The Undegraduate House One Students' Association, HKUSTSU su_ugh1@stu.ust.hk
- VERTEX, House II Students' Association, HKUSTSU su_ugh2@stu.ust.hk
- Glacier, HOUSE III Students' Association, HKUSTSU su_ugh3@stu.ust.hk
- Vista, House IV Students' Association, HKUSTSU su_ugh4@stu.ust.hk
- Endeavour, House V Students' Association, HKUSTSU su_ugh5@stu.ust.hk
Each department in HKUST would have its own departmental society. The departmental societies would organize different activities to their departments' students.
Providing activities to students, departmental societies are also responsible for promoting their corresponding department on outreach day which is for giving information of the university to high school students.
Engineering Students' Union, HKUSTSU
- Computer Engineering Students' Society, HKUSTSU
- Computer Science Students' Society, HKUSTSU
- Civil Engineering Students' Society, HKUSTSU
- Electrical & Electronic Engineering Students' Society, HKUSTSU
- Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Students' Society, HKUSTSU
- Mechanical Engineering Students' Association, HKUSTSU
- Chemical Engineering Students' Society, HKUSTSU
Business Students' Union, HKUSTSU
- Accounting Students' Society, HKUSTSU
- Economics Students' Society, HKUSTSU
- Finance Students' Society, HKUSTSU
- Management of Organizations Students' Association, HKUSTSU
- Marketing Students' Society, HKUSTSU
Science Students' Association, HKUSTSU
- Biology Students' Society, HKUSTSU
- Biochemistry Students' Society, HKUSTSU
- Physics Students' Society, HKUSTSU
- Chemistry Students' Society, HKUSTSU
- Mathematics Students' Society, HKUSTSU
Apart from the departmental societies, each school would have its own School Society. The School Societies coordinate with the departmental societies which belong to the same school and orgainze different activities to the students belong to that school.
- Business Students' Union, HKUSTSU
- Engineering Students' Union, HKUSTSU
- Science Students' Association, HKUSTSU
The Center for the Arts stages exhibitions, concerts, films and performances on campus; supports students and staff in organizing various arts activities; and organizes student cultural exchange activities with mainland universities and international institutions.
The objectives of the Language Centre provides courses for many foreign languages. Such as French, Japanese, German, Spanish. They are non-credit courses. They are only for students who are interested in learning those foreign language. Also, it provides different kinds of learning materials, such as fictions, practical books and movies.
LIBRA is a language immersion programme that enables undergraduates to visit an English-speaking country for language study and cultural exposure.
Under the LIBRA Programme, selected students will:
- be enrolled on a two-week English Language course at a local college in an English-speaking country; take formal lessons in small classes and engage in some project work;
- go on guided excursions to places of interest;take part in varied activities organised by the college;
- stay in the home of a local English-speaking family.
- pay for the flight tickers, accommodation and language courses those local colleges in a very attractive price
LIBRA was first offered in January 2005, and a total of five sessions have been held, taking students to Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Jersey, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Over 640 students have gone overseas on the LIBRA Programme.
Honors Track students must be academically equipped to keep up with the demanding pace of the accelerated courses. Minimum entrance requirements are:
Outstanding A-Level results with B average or above in three subjects, one of which must be A-Level Pure Mathematics, Early admissions students, or Students who have completed Year 0 with at least a CGA of B+, obtained a grade of B+ or above in both Mathematics courses. Students in the Honors Track are required to maintain a cumulative grade average (CGA) of A- or above every semester. Students with lower CGA will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Current students with good academic results will also be invited to join the honors study track halfway.
January 25th,2007,the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) officially named its Graduate School in Nansha as "HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School" in a ceremony that combined the official opening of the Graduate School and the ground breaking of its Nansha campus. [14]
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- Education in Hong Kong
- Higher education in Hong Kong
- List of universities in Hong Kong
- List of buildings and structures in Hong Kong
- LAOTSE, an international network of universities in Europe and Asia, including HKUST.
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology official homepage
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Students' Union official homepage
- A picture of the University
- International Students Office, HKUST
- Mainland Students Office, HKUST
- Orthophoto of HKUST in Google Map
- HKUST Business School
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST
- Genesis,An online publication for UST news
- HKUST International Business Plan Competition USF MBA Podcast, May 2007
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