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facilities for postgraduate students and visitors were opened during the year, and work is under way on other buildings for academic purposes.
The university also provides facilities for extra-mural study, though not to degree standard, through its Department of Extra-mural Studies. Nearly 25 000 students each year attend a wide variety of around 800 vocational or professional courses or courses of general or cultural interest.
The numbers of undergraduates registered in the various faculties and schools at the beginning of the 1982-3 academic year were: arts 1 135, science 679, medicine 768, dentistry 223, engineering 864, social sciences 854, architecture 264, and law 225. There were also 1711 post-graduate students: 877 reading for higher degrees and 834 for diplomas and certificates.
In addition to courses leading to first degrees, the university offers post-graduate courses leading to the degrees of Master of Arts, Master of Science in Engineering, Master of Social Sciences, Master of Social Work, Master of Business Administration, Master of Medical Sciences and Master of Education. There is also provision for the research degrees of Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Philosophy, Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery, as well as Higher Doctorates in Letters, Science, Social Sciences and Law. Certificates and diplomas are obtainable in the fields of law, education, psychology, various engineering subjects, the Chinese language, medical sciences and management studies.
The Faculty of Medicine contributes significantly to the higher professional training of registered doctors in Hong Kong. It also provides training for teachers of pre-clinical and clinical subjects from other medical schools in Southeast Asia. At the request of the government through the UPGC, the university is considering plans for a 50 per cent expansion in the student intake to the faculty.
The university is well-equipped with libraries and laboratories. A total of 600 000 volumes are accommodated in the main library and in subsidiary units such as the Fung Ping Shan Chinese Library, which has a very valuable collection of works in Chinese. The Fung Ping Shan Museum of Chinese Art is attached to the university and is also used as a teaching museum by the Department of Fine Arts.
Each department actively pursues its own specialist research interests and in some areas these are centred on problems of particular relevance and concern to Hong Kong. The Centre of Asian Studies serves as a focal point for the academic community working on single and multi-disciplinary research projects on China, Hong Kong, East Asia and Southeast Asia.
Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong was inaugurated in 1963 as a federal university in which the principal language of instruction is Chinese. It is a self-governing corporation which draws its income mainly from government grants. The university comprises three constituent colleges - New Asia College (founded in 1949), Chung Chi College (founded in 1951) and United College (founded in 1956). The campus covers more than 110 hectares of land near Sha Tin in the New Territories.
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The university offers a wide range of undergraduate courses, which fall into 40 disciplines, through its five faculties. Four of these the faculties of arts, business administration, science and social science offer four-year programmes leading to BA, BBA, BSc and BSSc degrees respectively. The fifth faculty, the Faculty of Medicine, admitted its first class of students in 1981. The curriculum is a five-year programme with the first two years devoted to pre-clinical studies, followed by three years of clinical work to be conducted