University of Hong Kong

The Hong Kong University Students’ Union (HKUSU) was founded in 1912. It aims to promote the welfare of the student body, to act as a bridge between the student body and the University authority, to identify the student body with social issues, to represent the student body both locally and internationally. There are 125 student societies affiliated to HKUSU.

Facilities including library and computing

• Seven libraries, 2,925,630 bound volumes.
• E-resources include 53,880 E-journal subscriptions; 41,613 E-journal titles; 681 databases; 3,481,589 E-books; 53,459 computer files; 35 group discussion rooms.
• 51 single study rooms for postgraduate students.
• Total number of halls and student residence places (existing and planned) 8,251.
• Sports facilities including dance studio, fitness room, badminton courts, squash courts, table tennis area, tennis courts, weight training room, combat room, swimming pool, artificial pitch, all weather area for soccer, volleyball, basketball, multi-purpose practice bays for cricket, golf, softball, track and field, climbing wall.
• HKU Careers and Placement offers a tailor-made faculty-based Professional Preparation Programme in addition to careers training activities.

Support for International Students

• International Student Orientation.
• Assistance in accommodation, visa application and extension, Putonghua and Cantonese courses, counselling services.

Students will need to meet the following requirements to be eligible for consideration to HKU:

• University entrance requirement (completion of a university-preparatory programme such as the IB Diploma or the GCE A level exams).
• Additional programme requirements – to have completed designated courses depending on the field of studies chosen by candidates.
• English language requirement.
• Second language requirement.

Entrance scholarships are available to students at time of application and are awarded of the basis of academic merits with consideration of non-academic achievement. Local and Non-Local students applying for undergraduate studies on the strength of International Qualifications via the International/Non-JUPAS admissions scheme are eligible.

Scholarship awards can be used towards:

• Tuition Fee
• Accommodation
• Personal expenses

The University of Hong Kong is the territory’s oldest institute of higher learning and also an internationally recognized, research led, comprehensive university. While recognising the strength of its heritage and traditions, HKU also engages in frontier research and academic endeavours that reflect and address the needs of a fast changing, knowledge-based world.

The University of Hong Kong (or HKU, as it is familiarly known to students, staff and alumni) is the oldest tertiary education institution in Hong Kong. On March 16, 1910, Sir Frederick Lugard, the then Governor of Hong Kong, laid the foundation stone for the University. The University was first incorporated in Hong Kong as a self-governing body of scholars by the University Ordinance on March 30, 1911. On March 11, 1912, the University was officially opened, and Arts, Engineeringand Medicine would become its first Faculties. The Faculty of Medicine evolved from the Hong Kong College of Medicine, founded in 1887. Of the College's early alumni, the most renowned was Dr Sun Yat-sen, often regarded as the founder of modern China.

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (graduate of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, predecessor of HKU’s Faculty of Medicine) – first Provisional President of the Republic of China.

HKU is recognized as a top-ranking university in the world.

• Faculty of Architecture
• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Business and Economics
• Faculty of Dentistry
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Law
• Li Ka Shing
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Graduate School
• School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKU SPACE)