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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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The main atrium of the HKUST
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (often abbreviated HKUST) is a public university located in Hong Kong. Established in 1991 under Hong Kong Law Chapter 1141 (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Ordinance), it is one of the eight universities in Hong Kong.
Professor Paul Ching-wu Chu. is the current president of UST. Its campus is located in Sai Kung District in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Overlooking Clear Water Bay, the school is home to 9,000 students as well as 453 professors.
Since its official opening in 1991, the university has become one of the top universities in Hong Kong and is among the most prestigious in Asia. The Times Higher Education ranked HKUST 53rd worldwide and 17th in technology [3] and admissions is among the most competitive in Hong Kong [4]. The HKUST Business School’s MBA program was ranked first in Asia and 20th worldwide by the EIU[5].
History
The main entrance of the HKUST with the red Sundial
In the late 1980s the Hong Kong Government anticipated a strong demand for university graduates to fuel an economy increasingly based on services. Chung Sze Yuen and the Governor of Hong Kong, Edward Youde, conceived the idea of another university in Hong Kong. Envisioning the establishment of an internationally competitive 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 on the Clear Water Bay Peninsula. Originally scheduled to finish in 1994[6], the death of Edward Youde in 1986 led to increased effort and allowed for UST to open its doors early - in 1991.
The project was heavily criticized for surpassing the budget originally set forth by the Hong Kong Government and Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club. However, under the fund raising efforts of its Vice-Chancellor at the time, Woo Chia-wei, the first students enrolled in October 1991. By 1992, accommodation as well as athletic facilities were expanded to support about 7,000 students. Several more expansion projects such as the construction of the HKUST Enterprise Centre have since been completed and current efforts include the expansion of housing facilities scheduled for completion for 2009.
Mission and Vision
Mission
To advance learning and knowledge through teaching and research, particularly:
(i) in science, technology, engineering, management and business studies; and (ii) at the postgraduate level;
and to assist in the economic and social development of Hong Kong.
Vision
To be a leading university with significant international impact and strong local commitment.
Global - To be a world-class university at the cutting edge internationally in all targeted fields of pursuit. National - To contribute to the economic and social development of the nation as a leading university in China. Local - To play a key role, in partnership with government, business, and industry, in the development of Hong Kong as a knowledge-based society.
Campus
HKUST Campus as seen from Port Shelter
The university campus (layout) occupies a 60 hectares (0.60 km2) site which is divided into a several sections: the Academic Building, S.H. Ho Sports Hall, student halls, outdoor sports facilities, the University Centre, apartments, staff quarters and the President's Lodge. Being constructed along the slope of the surrounding hills, beautiful Port Shelter is clearly visible from virtually every building on campus. Arranged in cascades, the buildings are connected by walkways and several balconies thus offer a spectacular view of the South China Sea.
The Academic Building
The Academic Building contains all lecture theatres, classrooms, laboratories and administrative offices. There are 10 lecture theaters (A-H, J-K) as well as a multitude of classrooms and labs. They are designed to accommodate classes of up to 450 students and all offer the latest audiovisual equipment. Access to UST's wireless network is available throughout most of the Academic Building as well as the surrounding areas. Information Technology Services Center (ITSC) operates and maintains a multitude of modern computer laboratories and computational facilities. IT services are extensive and access to services provided by ITSC, including printing resources and UNIX time-sharing facilities, is easy, reliable and universally available.
The University Library
The Lee Shau Kee Library - a rare moment, when the sunset landscape reflects onto the library
The HKUST Library, part of the Hong Kong Academic Library Link (HKALL), occupies a central location of the campus. Connected to the Academic Building, it is accessible directly from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Atrium. It spans five floors with over 10,550 sqm[7] of floor space, providing 1,950[8] seats as well as extensive computing facilities. With several collections, wireless access throughout as well as copying and reference services, the library represents an integral part of UST's campus structure and overall academic setup. It offers a wide array of information resources, both local and remote. In addition to over 650,000 print volumes and a large collection of media resources, it provides access to more than 25,000 electronic and print journals, a large number of e-books, databases, and other digital information resources.[9]
Student Housing
On-campus housing is available for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students. However, there are insufficient places available for the entire student population. While international as well as exchange students are generally guaranteed on-campus housing, spaces are appropriated on a competitive basis to the remainder of mostly local applicants.
With housing fees being very low relative to off-campus accommodation, students live in one of several halls. Generally, a room is shared between two or three students. While sinks are present in newer rooms, showers as well as toilets are shared. Similarly, students have access to one or more common rooms per floor. These include a television, water boiler, microwave, telephone as well as a fridge. Common rooms face the bay, include a balcony and are often used for study as well as group discussions. Wireless access is present in many common rooms although wall sockets for wired access to the campus network are universally installed throughout all student halls.
In addition to the student halls, there are four university apartment towers (A-D). Housing arrangements in the apartment towers vary. In general, however, an apartment of four rooms, including a small kitchen and common area is shared by four occupants. Apartment housing is extremely scarce and is several times more expensive than standard shared accommodation.
Health Services
Located on LG1, next to the Sports Hall entrance, the Health Center consists of a Medical Clinic, a Student Dental Clinic as well as a Staff Dental Clinic. The Medical Clinic provides free out-patient service to full-time students. Specialist services in Allergy, Dermatology, ENT, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Pulmonology, Surgery and Physiotherapy are also available subject to a charge.
Sports and Recreational Facilities
Sports and recreational facilities are extensive and free of charge for students and staff. Facilities include an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, a stadium, an indoor sport hall, mini soccer pitch, basketball courts, volleyball courts, tennis courts, a fully equipped fitness centre including table-tennis and squash courts. Some sports facilities such as squash or tennis courts can be booked online up to seven days in advance.
Additionally, the school offers a wide variety of sports skill classes, clubs and other recreational programmes open to students and staff. Facilities as well as equipment are new and well-maintained. Equipment can often be borrowed and staff on site is plentiful, friendly and approachable.
Other Facilities
Several restaurants are located on campus. Canteen-style facilities are provided on LG1, LG5 and LG7. Cheap Chinese and western-style food is available here as well as at the Seafront Cafe, located on the ground floor of New Hall. A Chinese restaurant proper can be found in the Academic Building, accessible directly from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Atrium. A coffee shop as well as a sandwich bar additionally serving hot lunch are located on the Academic Concourse. Furthermore, the University Bar as well as an adjacent restaurant are located at the University Centre.
Similarly, a supermarket, hair-dresser, bookstore and print shop can also be found on campus.
International Programs Unit
HKUST's academic and research programs, with universities worldwide, creates an international environment for faculty, students and staff.
Exchange Programs
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 University of Illinois, Cornell, Rice University, Georgia Inst. of Technology, UC Berkeley, Tulane University, 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 Program
- 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:
- Student Exchange Program [1]
- Internship [2]
- Case competition [3]
- Business Mentoring Program [4]
- Company Visit [5]
- Leadership Development [6]
- Community service [7]
Students' Union
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
The Executive Committee
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
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.
The Editorial Board
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
The Court
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.
Affiliated Societies
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
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
AIESEC-LC-HKUST, HKUSTSU
Astronomy Club, HKUSTSU
Band Society, HKUSTSU
Beauty Club, HKUSTSU
Campus Crusade for Christ, HKUSTSU
Catholic Society, HKUSTSU
China Study Society, HKUSTSU
Chinese Culture Society, HKUSTSU
Chinese Folk Art Society, HKUSTSU
Chinese Orchestra, HKUSTSU
Comic and Animation Club, HKUSTSU
Contract Bridge Club, HKUSTSU
Culinary Art and Culture Society, HKUSTSU
Current Affairs Research Enlightenment, HKUSTSU
Debating Society, HKUSTSU
Film Society, HKUSTSU
Fishing Club, HKUSTSU
Games Society, HKUSTSU
Golden Z Club, HKUSTSU
Linguistic Society, HKUSTSU
Magic Club, HKUSTSU
Nature Club, HKUSTSU
People's Campus Radio Society, HKUSTSU
Photographic Society, HKUSTSU
Rotaract Club of HKUST, HKUSTSU
Social Dance Society, HKUSTSU
Student Christian Fellowship, HKUSTSU
Drama Society, HKUSTSU
Student Social Service Society, HKUSTSU
Students' Internet Society, HKUSTSU
The Hong Kong Award of Young People User Unit, HKUSTSU
University Choir, HKUSTSU
University Philharmonic Orchestra, HKUSTSU
Visual Arts Society, HKUSTSU
Yo-hoo Club, HKUSTSU
Sports Association and Sports Clubs
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:
Sports Association, HKUSTSU
Archery Club, HKUSTSU
Dance Society, HKUSTSU
Distance Runners'Club, HKUSTSU
Dragon Boat Club, HKUSTSU
Fencing Club, HKUSTSU
Gymnastics Society, HKUSTSU
Handball Club, HKUSTSU
Judo Club, HKUSTSU
Karate Club, HKUSTSU
Kendo Club, HKUSTSU
Netball Club, HKUSTSU
Rugby Club, HKUSTSU
Sailing Club, HKUSTSU
Shaolin Martial Arts Society, HKUSTSU
Softball Club, HKUSTSU
Sport Climbing Students' Society, HKUSTSU
Squash Club, HKUSTSU
Student Basketball Club, HKUSTSU
Student Rowing Club, HKUSTSU
Student Tennis Club, HKUSTSU
Students' Badminton Club, HKUSTSU
Students' Football Club, HKUSTSU
Students' Swimming Club, HKUSTSU
Table Tennis Club, HKUSTSU
Taek-Won-Do Club, HKUSTSU
Taichi Club, HKUSTSU
Track and Field Club, HKUSTSU
Volleyball Club, HKUSTSU
Wing Chun Martial Arts Society, HKUSTSU
House Associations
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.
Departmental Societies
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
Business Students' Union, HKUSTSU
Science Students' Association, HKUSTSU
School Societies
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 organize different activities to the students belong to that school.
Center Of The Arts
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.
Language Center
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 (Language Immersion by Residence Abroad)
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 Study
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.
Fok Ying Tung Graduate School
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. [8]
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