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Research Postgraduate Programmes

Why HKU Science?

High university rankings - THE World University Rankings:  #4 in Asia (2020), #39 in the world (2021), #41 in impact ranking (2020); QS World University Rankings: #4 in Asia (2021), #9 World graduate employability (2020), #22 in the world (2021). Awards & Achievements - 3 Members of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, 5 Members of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5 Fellows of foreign academicians, 5 State Natural Science Awards, Plus many prestigious international awards and honours. Remarks: Accumulative number of awards
 

• Internationalisation and Diversity

 Ranking #6 
THE most international universities in the world (2024) World University Rankings
 

Staff 40% 
of academic staff members are from overseas

  Student >650 
 research students from over 28 countries

 

• University Rankings

• Top-notch Scholars

University Rankings - THE World University Rankings: #4 in Asia (2023), #35 in the world (2024), #6 in the most international universities (2024); #43 in Life Sciences (2024); #47 in Physical Sciences (2024); QS World University Rankings: #2 in Asia (2024), #10 World graduate employability (2022), #26 in the world (2024). Top-notch Scholars - 18.3% of professoriate staff average over the past decade) are the world’s Top 1% scholars (Clarivate Analytics’ Essential Science Indicators)

 

• Awards & Achievements

 

• 4 Members of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences

• 6 Members of Chinese Academy Sciences 

• 5 State Natural Science Awards

• 8 Fellow of foreign academicians

Plus many prestigious international awards and honours

 

• Research Eminence

 


 
        6Areas of Excellence (AoE) projects

3HKU-CS Joint Laboratories

1State Key Laboratory in Synthetic Chemistry

 

•  Excellence in basic research, aiming high in applied and strategic research

 

•  Most supportive of interdisciplinary research

 

Well-established Faculty

 

> 80
years of science
education history
> 170
teaching staff
* All teaching staff members have a PhD degree in their respective field
> 2,600
undergraduate
students
> 650
research postgraduate
students
> 700
taught postgraduate
students
> 27,000
alumni


 

• Extensive Collaborations with World-class Universities
 

• Cutting-edge Research Facilities
 

• Robust Funding

Projected funding of HK$807 million for the following InnoHK projects:

Health@InnoHK programme
 
AIR@InnoHK programme
The Laboratory for Synthetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
 
The Hong Kong Quantum AI Lab
  • aims to produce innovative, high-impact and leading-edge interdisciplinary research in the area of drug discovery and development
 
  • multi-disciplinary programme which combines big data/machine learning, computational science and experiments to discover new energy materials and devices

 

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