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SCIENCE SPARKS 2024

Institutional Reputation & Global Presence

► HKU SCIENCE FAMILY

TEACHING 
STAFF

>180

UNDERGRADUATE
STUDENTS

>2,760

RESEARCH POSTGRADUATE
STUDENTS

~730

TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE
STUDENTS

~850

ALUMNI
 

>28,000

Family

 

► UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

 

QS ASIA UNIVERSITY
RANKINGS 2024

QS logo #2

award

QS WORLD UNIVERSITY
RANKINGS 2024

QS logo #26

 

 

 

THE ASIA UNIVERSITY
RANKINGS 2023

THE logo #4

THE WORLD UNIVERSITY
RANKINGS 2024

THE logo #35

 

 

► RANKINGS BY SCIENCE SUBJECTS

 

#43 THE logo    Life Sciences

LIFE SCIENCES
(THE WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2024)

#47 THE logo    Physical Science

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
(THE WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2024)

 

 

 #26 QS logo    Life Sciences and Medicine

LIFE SCIENCES & MEDICINE
(QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2023)

 #81 QS logo    Natural Sciences

NATURAL SCIENCES
(QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2023)

 

 

TOP-NOTCH SCHOLARS

 18.3%of professorial staff are the world’s top 1% Highly Cited Researchers
(Clarivate Analytics’ Essential Science Indicators for the past decade.)

 

1Nobel  Laureate
 
 

6

 

Members of Chinese Academy
of Sciences (CAS)

8

Memberships of
foreign academics
 

4

 

Members of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences 23Croucher Foundation
Senior Research Fellows

 

RESEARCH EMINENCE

 

6Areas of Excellence
(AoE) projects
 

2

 

Theme-based Research
(TRS) projects

1

State Key
Laboratory

 

3HKU-CAS Joint
Laboratories
 2Government's InnoHK
Research Clusters

8

RGC Collaborative
Research Funds from
2022 to 2024

 

INTERNATIONALISATION

 

~40%

Academic staff are from overseas

#THE logo

THE The Most International
University in the World in 2024

award cup
 

~45%

Non-local students in the Faculty

   

 

► TEACHING & LEARNING

 

7

Undergraduate
Programmes

- 4 programmes by the Faculty

- 3 joint programmes

 

9

 

Taught Postgraduate
Programmes

Various

Research Postgraduate
Programmes

- MPhil Programme

- PhD Programme

 

GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT

Essentially100%employment rate in the past decade (including further studies)

 

► ADMISSIONS INTAKE FOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

Highest scores for 2023/24 intake:
JUPAS#Non-JUPAS 
6901 Bachelor of Science39.544 (IB)/ 5A*(GCEAL) 
6688 Bachelor of Science & Master of Research
(Science Master Class)
42.544 (IB)/ 5A*(GCEAL) 
6858 Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws42.54A*(GCEAL) 
6729 Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science39.540 (IB)/ 4A*1A(GCEAL) 
6224 Bachelor of Arts and Sciences (AppliedAI)414A*(GCEAL) 
# Best five subjects score for JUPAS   

 

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE

Patent Application Granted: 92 over the past three years

 


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