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comparatively low level, government grants provide the main source of income.
The Chinese University has three faculties and the enrolment in October 1967 in each faculty was: arts 576; science 594; commerce and social science 790, making a total undergraduate enrolment of 1960. The total number of new students for the academic year 1967-8 was 583.
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Of a total number of 496 graduates in 1967, 474 were awarded Bachelor's degrees including eight with the distinction ‘magna cum laude' and 69 ‘cum laude'. Twenty-two were awarded diplomas. The Graduate School of the Chinese University of Hong Kong was established in September 1966, and admits students for two years of postgraduate studies in arts, science, commerce and social science leading to a Master's degree. Thirteen students have been awarded the Master of Arts degree. There are 46 students in the school, 22 of whom are in the first year.
The Technical College has a total enrolment of 14,350 students in 106 courses, comprising 1,593 full-time students in 59 classes, 492 part-time day students in 22 classes and 12,265 evening students in 392 classes distributed in 21 centres. The college has eight depart- ments; building, surveying and structural engineering; commerce and management studies; electrical engineering; mechanical, pro- duction and marine engineering; textile industries; nautical studies; mathematics and science; and industrial and commercial design. These provide full-time courses leading to the college's own higher and ordinary diplomas and to the associate membership examina- tions of many British professional institutions, a number of which have granted exemption from certain parts of their examinations to students in the higher diploma courses. The academic standard required for entry to most of these full-time classes is a Hong Kong school certificate with passes in specified subjects.
In addition to the higher and ordinary diploma courses, the electrical engineering department offers courses for first and second- class radio officers, and a course in radar maintenance which gives training to qualified seagoing officers and technicians. The depart- ment of nautical studies runs a course for radar observers. The department of commerce and management studies offers, mainly for