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University of Macau
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| University of Macau Universidade de Macau 澳門大學 |
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| Motto: | Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and sincerity (Traditional Chinese:仁義禮智信) |
| Established | 1991 |
| Type: | Public |
| Location | Av. Padre Tomás Pereira Taipa, Macau |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Website: | www.umac.mo |
The University of Macau, (traditional Chinese: 澳門大學; pinyin: ào mén dà xué; Portuguese: Universidade de Macau) formerly known as the University of East Asia (Portuguese: Universidade de Ásia de Leste; traditional Chinese: 東亞大學; pinyin: dōng yà dà xué), was established in 1981, as the first university in the former Portuguese colony of Macau, now a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
The Chancellor of UM is Macau CE Edmund Ho and Rector Iu Vai Pan.
The university's campus on Taipa Island has expanded dramatically in recent years as a result of the region's rapid economic development and Macau's 1999 return to China. This expansion has allowed Macau to develop local talent as it evolves beyond its colonial past. Student enrollment rose from several hundred students in the 1980s to over five thousand today. Over the same period, the percentage of local Macanese students has soared from 39% to 90%.
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The university has five research faculties in the fields of Business Administration, Social Sciences and Humanities, Science and Technology, Law, and Education, as well as two education centres for Pre-University Studies, Continuing Studies and Special Programmes. It offers undergraduate, Master's, doctorate and Bacharelato (higher diploma) programmes with more than 350 academic staff members involved in teaching or research.
The Faculty of Law offers undergraduate programmes in Chinese (4 years) and Portuguese language (5 years), as well as master and postgraduate programmes in the official languages of Macau, Chinese and Portuguese. In addition, the Faculty of Law offers two master programs in English, one concentrating on international business law, and the other on European, international and comparative law.
The Faculty of Science and Technology was founded in [1989]. Currently, a solid undergraduate four-year degree in the following departments has been developed: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Department of Computer and Information Science and Department of Mathematics.
Graduate degrees in the Faculty has been developed since 1993, leading to the Master of Science degrees in Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, E-Commerce, Mathematics.
At present, there are 33 laboratories for teaching and research purposes in various science and engineering fields.
Since 1991, the university has established academic links and collaborations with more than 90 institutions around the world. It is a member of the International Association of Universities, the International Association of University Presidents, the Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific and the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific. The university's student exchange programmes currently bring over 100 students every year from Europe, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United States. Starting in 2001, the university has been recruiting students in 14 provinces and cities in China.
