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The Chinese University of Hong Kong
17.
as
It
is
from
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong was inaugurated in
in 1963
New federal university composed of three constituent colleges a
Asia College (founded in 1949), Chung Chi College (founded in 1951)
in
and United College (founded in 1956).
a self-governing
corporation which draws its income mainly
government grants.
The campus occupies more than 110 hectares of land near Sha Tin, in
the New Territories.
Since its early days, the university has adopted a distinctive academic system of its own, which in many ways
is different from that of a traditional British university. Most
students are admitted to the undergraduate programme after six years
of secondary education, and the Bachelor's degree examination
assessed by external examiners from home and abroad.
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through its
five
a five-year programme.
is
Courses
Four
of
Clinical
The university offers a wide range of undergraduate
47 departments grouped under
faculties.
the faculties
Arts, Business Administration, Science and Social
Science offer four-year programmes leading to Bachelor's degrees.
The Faculty of Medicine runs teaching is conducted mainly in the university's teaching hospital the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin. The university emphasises bilingualism; most courses are taught in Chinese, but English also used widely. At the postgraduate level, there are 49 academic
and
professional
programmes
leading
to
the
degrees
i s
of
,
of Doctor
Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Philosophy, Master of Business Administration, Master of Social Work,
of Social Work, Master of Divinity
Master of Arts, and Master of Arts in Education as well as Diplomas
in Education and Social Work. Part-time degree programmes are
offered to working adults.
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New
programmes
launched in 1985-6 comprised Doctor of
of Philosophy in Chemistry, Clinical and
Marketing and International
Business
and
Medicine; Doctor
Pathological Sciences,
Mathematics; and Master of Philosophy in Clinical and Pathological
Expansion in the fields of education, social work,
expected in the coming years.
plans to establish engineering studies in the near
Sciences.
computer
science and
There are plans
In the
postgraduate
medicine
is
studies,
emphasis greater
will
be
future.
placed
on
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