History
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) was established in October
1963 as Hong Kong's second university.
Students
Total Enrollment: 22,619
Total Number of Undergraduates: 11,446
Full-time Undergraduates: 11,287
Part-time Undergraduates: 159
Total Number of Postgraduates: 11,173
Full-time postgraduates: 3,989
Part-time postgraduates: 7,184
(Information as at 31 December, 2009)
Constituent Colleges
Chung Chi College (founded in 1951)
New Asia College (founded in 1949)
United College (founded in 1956)
Shaw College (founded in 1986)
Morningside College (founded in 2006)
S. H. Ho College (founded in 2006)
C. W. Chu College (founded in 2007)
Wu Yee Sun College (founded in 2007)
Lee Woo Sing College (founded in 2007)
Faculties
CUHK's 8 Faculties, and their undergraduate student populations,
are as follows:
Faculty of Arts 1,471
Faculty of Business Administration 2,343
Faculty of Education 287
Faculty of Engineering 1,545
Faculty of Law 244
Faculty of Medicine 1,523
Faculty of Science 1,648
Faculty of Social Science 1,733
Others (including double degrees, inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional, streams) 461
Departments
Academic Departments 59
Undergraduate Programmes 55 major, 61 minor, 1 part-time
Postgraduate Programmes offered 28 MPhil-PhD, 41 doctoral, 160 master, 26 diploma
Staff (full-time):
Teaching 1,462
Research 1,145
Professional 349
Administrative 477
University Library System (7 Libraries):
Holdings: 2,541,759 volumes
Periodicals subscribed to: 13,000 titles
Electronic Journals: 100,000
Electronic databases: 580
(Information as at 31 December 2009)
Campus Size
134 hectares
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