Teaching and Learning
6 undergraduate programmes and 9 taught postgraduate programmes are offered by our Faculty.
| Number of students | |
|---|---|
| Undergraduate | 3120 (65%) |
| Taught Postgraduate | 957 (20%) |
| Research Postgraduate | 722 (15%) |
| Internationalisation of students | |
|---|---|
| Number of local students | 2267 (47.2%) |
| Number of non-local students | 2532 (52.8%) |
| Number of countries of non-local students | 56 |
| 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 staff | 147 |
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