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Strategic Moves, Quick Facts and Achievements

Quick facts and figures (academic year 2025-26)

Teaching and Learning

6 undergraduate programmes and 9 taught postgraduate programmes are offered by our Faculty.

 

Number of students
Undergraduate3120 (65%)
Taught Postgraduate957 (20%)
Research Postgraduate722 (15%)

 

Internationalisation of students
Number of local students2267 (47.2%)
Number of non-local students2532 (52.8%)
Number of countries of non-local students56

 

student distribution

Staff
(including the Departments of Chemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, and
the School of Biological Sciences)
Teaching staff*
*All teaching staff have a PhD degree in their field of expertise
164
Professional services staff147

Number of professorial staff among teaching staff

130
Place of origin distribution of professorial staff

Hong Kong & Mainland China (~65%)

Overseas (~35%)

 

Research

  • Cumulative number of Research Grants Council (RGC)’s Areas of Excellence (AoE) projects directed by HKU investigators since its inception in 1996 : 6
  • Number of HKU Science professoriate staff over the past decade ranked by Clarivate Analytics' Essential Science Indicators (previously Thomson Reuters) as being among the world’s top 1% of scientists (based on the number of citations recorded for their publications): 31
  • Two State Key Laboratories
  • HKU-CAS Joint Laboratories: 3

  • Members/ Foreign members of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS): 6
  • Memberships of foreign academies: 8
  • Members of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences: 5
  • Cumulative number of State Science and Technology Awards in the categories of State Natural Science Award: 9

 

Knowledge exchange

Patents granted for inventions for the past 3 years: 94