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to a Certificate in Education. The department also offers the MPhil following a qualifying examination, either as a six-term part-time period of study spread over two academic years, or as a one-year full-time candidature. As in other departments, the PhD is also available for specially qualified and selected candidates.
The Department of Extra-mural Studies provided over 216 evening and day-time courses for adult students in 1971–2. During the period July 1971 to June 1972, 4,808 attended regular courses and 467 attended public lectures, seminars and conferences. Some of these courses are conducted in Cantonese and Mandarin but the majority are in English. Subjects vary from oriental studies through a full range of liberal arts to economics, law and commerce, and include a rapidly growing section of vocational and professional courses leading to a number of qualifications, including a University Diploma in Management Studies.
The University of Hong Kong conducts its own advanced level examination, the standard of which is similar to that of the GCE advanced level. Entry to the univer- sity is generally dependent upon successful results in this examination. In May, 4,911 candidates entered for the examination, of whom 2,825 fulfilled minimum require- ments for entry.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong was inaugurated in October 1963 as a federal university in which the principal language of instruction is Chinese. It com- prises Chung Chi College, New Asia College and United College. The university is situated on 330 acres of land on the Tai Po Road near Sha Tin. United College, which was located on Hong Kong Island before, moved into the Sha Tin Campus in December 1971. It is anticipated that by September 1973, New Asia College, which is now located in Kowloon, will also be on the new campus.
The Chinese University at present has three faculties and the total undergraduate enrolment in September 1972 was 2,582 (arts 732, science 746, commerce and social science 1,104). During the year, 598 students graduated from the University—13 Masters of Arts, 9 Masters of Science, 16 Masters of Business Administration, 3 Masters of Social Science, 163 Bachelors of Arts, 121 Bachelors of Business Admin- istration, 132 Bachelors of Social Science, and 141 Bachelors of Science. In the matriculation examination held in the summer of 1972, a total of 6,796 candidates sat and 2,270 passed. The total number of freshmen for the academic year 1972–3 was 762.
The Graduate School of the university, established in September 1966, has been offering two-year postgraduate courses in arts, science, business administration, and social science leading to a Master's degree. In the academic year 1972-3, two types of programmes have been instituted: a two-year programme of course work and research thesis leading to a degree of Master of Philosophy in Humanities, Science or Social Science, Master of Business Administration, and Master of Divinity; and a one-year programme of course work leading to a degree of Master of Arts, Master of Science and Master of Social Science. Up to October 1972, 149 students had been awarded Master's degrees. In the current academic year, there are 130 students in the school.