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School Certificate examination. Passes in at least five subjects, including Chinese and English, are normally required for entry to the university and there are additional requirements for admission to various undergraduate courses.
In the matriculation examination held in the summer of 1968, a total of 2,809 candidates sat and 1,061 passed. The total number of Freshmen for the academic year 1968-9 is 630.
The Graduate School of the university was established in Septem- ber 1966, and admits students for two years of postgraduate studies in arts, science, commerce, and social science leading to a Master's degree. Up to October 1968, 30 students have been awarded the Master of Arts degree. There were 45 students in the school in June 1968.
The School of Education, inaugurated in September 1965, offers a one-year diploma course of professional training to university graduates. Its third class of students completed the course in sum- mer 1968. In September 1967, a two-year part-time evening course for serving teachers, also leading to a Diploma of Education, was introduced.
The Lingnan Institute of Business Administration was inaugurated in November 1966. The institute provides facilities for graduate study and research in the broad area of business administration, and offers a two-year curriculum leading to the degree Master of Commerce.
A Computing Centre was established in February 1967. Its facili- ties include an IBM 1,130 Computer and a set of IBM Unit Records Machines. The main purposes of the Centre are for faculty research and for student instructions. A limited number of survey or research projects conducted by non-profit-making institutions have also made use of the facilities of the Centre.
The Department of Extra-mural Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong offered 278 courses and had an enrolment of 7,710 during 1967-8. In addition to general courses, certificate programmes in Chinese literature, advanced translation, Chinese history, libra- rianship, applied design, computer fundamentals and programming, the teaching of modern mathematics, and tourism: promotion and