Teaching and Learning
7 undergraduate programmes and 8 taught postgraduate programmes are offered by our Faculty.
Number of students | |
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Undergraduate | 2763 (63.8%) |
Taught Postgraduate | 846 (19.5%) |
Research Postgraduate | 724 (16.7%) |
Internationalisation of students | |
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Number of local students | 2283 (52.7%) |
Number of non-local students | 2050 (47.3%) |
Number of countries of non-local students | 49 |
Staff | |
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Teaching staff* *All teaching staff have a PhD degree in their field of expertise | 184 |
Professional services staff | 151 |
Number of professorial staff among teaching staff | 145 |
Place of origin distribution of professorial staff | Hong Kong & Mainland China (~60%) Overseas (~40%) |
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 ranked by Clarivate Analytics' Essential Science Indicators 2023 (previously Thomson Reuters) as being among the world’s top 1% of scientists (based on the number of citations recorded for their publications): 28
- One State Key Laboratory on Synthetic Chemistry (HKU)
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: 4
- 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: 92