EDUCATION
Studies. It emphasises the application of knowledge and professional training, and maintains strong links with industry and employers.
HKUST, opened in 1991, awards bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in three schools: Science, Engineering, and Business and Management. A fourth school, Humanities and Social Science, offers graduate degrees and provides general education for all undergraduates.
HKU is Hong Kong's oldest tertiary institution. It was founded in 1911, continuing the work of a College of Medicine established in 1887, and has nine faculties: Architecture, Arts, Dentistry, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Science, and Social Sciences, and the School of Business.
With a view to promoting life-long learning, six UGC-funded institutions have also set up their continuing and professional education units. They offer award-bearing and professional programmes, as well as short courses, on a self-financing basis.
The student enrolment, in full-time equivalent (fte) terms of the eight institutions in the 1998-99 academic year, was:
Student enrolment (fte) of UGC-funded programmes, 1998–99
Institution
Sub-degree
Taught Research Postgraduate Postgraduate
Total
Under- graduate
CityU
5 103
7 412
1 090
356
13 961
HKBU
4 031
245
118
4 394
LU
2 119
16
2 135
CUHK
9 244
1 274
1 054
11 572
HKIEd
4 932
110
25
5 067
PolyU
4 813
7 760
890
333
13 796
HKUST
5 655
566
683
6 904
HKU
9 192
1 972
1 047
12 211
Total
14 848
45 523
6 062
3 607
70 040
166
Note: Lingnan College was retitled Lingnan University (LU) on July 30, 1999. The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK), established in 1989 as the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong, makes higher education available to all through a system of open access and distance education. It was granted self-accrediting status in 1996 and then university status in 1997. Since 1993-94, OUHK has become self- financing. In 1998-99, more than 25 000 students enrolled in the 44 degree and