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In the late 1980s the Hong Kong Government anticipated a strong demand for university graduates to fuel an economy increasingly based on services. Sir Chung Sze Yuen and the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Edward Youde, conceived the idea of another university in Hong Kong. Envisioning the establishment of an internationally competitive university, planning for the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology began in 1986. Construction began at the former British garrison Kohima Camp in Tai Po Tsai on the Clear Water Bay Peninsula.

Originally scheduled to finish in 1994, the death of Sir Edward in 1986 led to increased effort and allowed for UST to open its doors early - in 1991.

The project was heavily criticized for surpassing the budget originally set forth by the Hong Kong Government and Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club. However, under the fund raising efforts of its Vice-Chancellor at the time, Woo Chia-wei, the first students enrolled in October 1991. By 1992, accommodation as well as athletic facilities were expanded to support about 7,000 students. Several more expansion projects such as the construction of the HKUST Enterprise Centre have since been completed and current efforts include the expansion of housing facilities scheduled for completion for 2009.

校园

The university campus (layout) occupies a 60 hectares (0.60 km) site which is divided into a several sections: the Academic Building, S.H. Ho Sports Hall, student halls, outdoor sports facilities, the University Centre, apartments, staff quarters and the President's Lodge. Being constructed along the slope of the surrounding hills, beautiful Port Shelter is clearly visible from virtually every building on campus. Arranged in cascades, the buildings are connected by walkways and several balconies thus offer a spectacular view of the South China Sea.

The Academic Building

The Academic Building contains all lecture theatres, classrooms, laboratories and administrative offices. There are 10 lecture theaters (A-H, J-K) as well as a multitude of classrooms and labs. They are designed to accommodate classes of up to 450 students and all offer the latest audiovisual equipment. Access to UST's wireless network is available throughout most of the Academic Building as well as the surrounding areas. Information Technology Services Center (ITSC) operates and maintains a multitude of modern computer laboratories and computational facilities. IT services are extensive and access to services provided by ITSC, including printing resources and UNIX time-sharing facilities, is easy, reliable and universally available.

The University Library

The HKUST Library, part of the Hong Kong Academic Library Link (HKALL), occupies a central location of the campus. Connected to the Academic Building, it is accessible directly from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Atrium. It spans five floors with over 10,550 sqm. of floor space, providing 1,950 seats as well as extensive computing facilities. With several collections, wireless access throughout as well as copying and reference services, the library represents an integral part of UST's campus structure and overall academic setup. It offers a wide array of information resources, both local and remote. In addition to over 650,000 print volumes and a large collection of media resources, it provides access to more than 25,000 electronic and print journals, a large number of e-books, databases, and other digital information resources.

The library owns a unique collection of old maps of China and the rest of Asia, produced by Chinese and Western cartographers over the last 500 years. A selection of these maps, providing an insight into the history of international geographic knowledge, has been published by the library in a limited-edition (1000 copies) volume in 2003.

Student Housing

On-campus housing is available for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students. However, there are insufficient places available for the entire student population. While international as well as exchange students are generally guaranteed on-campus housing, spaces are appropriated on a competitive basis to the remainder of mostly local applicants.

With housing fees being very low relative to off-campus accommodation, students live in one of several halls. Generally, a room is shared between two or three students. While sinks are present in newer rooms, showers as well as toilets are shared. Similarly, students have access to one or more common rooms per floor. These include a television, water boiler, microwave, telephone as well as a fridge. Common rooms face the bay, include a balcony and are often used for study as well as group discussions. Wireless access is present in many common rooms although wall sockets for wired access to the campus network are universally installed throughout all student halls. Additionally, there are four (4) university apartment towers (A-D). Housing arrangements in the apartment towers vary. In general, however, an apartment of four rooms, including a small kitchen and common area is shared by four occupants. Apartment housing is extremely scarce and is several times more expensive than standard shared accommodation.

Health Services

Located on LG1, next to the Sports Hall entrance, the Health Center consists of a Medical Clinic, a Student Dental Clinic as well as a Staff Dental Clinic. The Medical Clinic provides free out-patient service to full-time students. Specialist services in Allergy, Dermatology, ENT, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Pulmonology, Surgery and Physiotherapy are also available subject to a charge.

Sports and Recreational Facilities

Sports and recreational facilities are extensive and free of charge for students and staff. Facilities include an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, a stadium, an indoor sport hall, mini soccer pitch, basketball courts, volleyball courts, tennis courts, a fully equipped fitness centre including table-tennis and squash courts. Some sports facilities such as squash or tennis courts can be booked online up to seven days in advance.

Other Facilities

Several restaurants are located on campus. Canteen-style facilities are provided on LG1, LG5 and LG7. Cheap Chinese and western-style food is available here as well as at the Seafront Cafe, located on the ground floor of New Hall. A Chinese restaurant is in the Academic Building, accessible directly from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Atrium. A coffee shop as well as a sandwich bar additionally serving hot lunch are located on the Academic Concourse. The University Bar as well as an adjacent restaurant are located at the University Centre. A supermarket, hair-dresser, bookstore and print shop can also be found on campus.

Exchange Programs

School of Business & Management

• Internationalization is an integral element of the undergraduate experience. The importance of allowing students to learn global perspectives first-hand by immersing themselves in another culture is highly recognized. To support this objective is the Business School's long established exchange program. The School has the most extensive student exchange network in Asia, with more than 100 partner schools worldwide. Its partners consist of highly-renowned universities in Canada, America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Continuing negotiations for new exchanges agreements mean a constantly widening choice of options for students.

• Around 2,800 students have been chosen for academic exchanges since the program's inception in 1995. Every year close to 400 undergraduates, that is over half of the School's BBA/BSc student population, spend a semester at renowned Business Schools overseas. To allow for greater global exposure, some students can be selected for two semester exchanges at separate universities in two different continents.

School of Engineering The School of Engineering provides exchange programs with many top US universities and a few other universities in Europe such as University of Illinois, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Rice University, Georgia Institute of Technology, UC Berkeley, Tulane University, UCL London, etc. The program is usually one-year long allowing the participants to fully experience the local culture and lifestyle. The school also provide exchange programs in mainland China which is more popular among local Hong Kong students while full time mainland China based students accounts more for the participants in oversea exchange-out program.

Enrichment Program

• Enrichment activities provided by business school offer students valuable opportunity to broaden eye horizon, and acquire a wider range of knowledge other than concentrating a specific discipline.
• Enrichment program consists of seven different activities, which are:
  • Student Exchange Program [1]
  • Internship [2]
  • Case competition [3]
  • Business Mentoring Program [4]
  • Company Visit [5]
  • Leadership Development [6]
  • Community service [7]

Students' Union

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Students' Union (HKUSTSU) consists of four mutually independent bodies, the Executive Committee, the Council, the Editorial Board and the Court. Each of them has different functions in the Union. All students' societies are affiliated under the S.U. (Students' Union)

The Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is the executive branch of the S.U. It consists of different standing committees to take care with different issues regarding the Union and its members such as Academic Affairs, External and Current Affairs, International Affairs, Public Relations, Publication, Social Activities, Orientation Affairs, University Affairs, and Welfare Matters.

The Council

The Council acts as the legislature branch, which is responsible for legislation and regulation of finance and operations of Union. Its duties include:

• Hold all elections regarding Students' Union
• Consideration and approval of applications for affiliation to the Union
• Supervision, advice, proposing and passing rules and regulations on all sub-organizations
• Interpretation of and proposing amendment to the Constitution of Union
• Consideration and approval of Master Budget of the Union
• Consideration and approval of application of Union subsidies

In order to practice the above duties, the Council has four standing committees. They are Affiliated Societies Committee, Constitution Committee, Election Committee and Finance Committee.

The Editorial Board

The Editorial Board (EB) maintains the official publication of Union. Its main functions are:

• Promotion of the objects of the Union
• Providing chances for and encourage free expressions of opinion by and among the student body

The Court

It is the judiciary body of HKUSTSU. Its main duties are:

• Settle disputes within the Union
• Provide interpretation to the Constitution

Affiliated Societies

The application of Students' Societies in HKUST are approved by the Students' Union Council. They are the affiliated societies of the Students' Union. Student can join the Societies freely during the orientation period. At that time, Societies will design different membership package to attract students join in. After being a member, student can participate in different functions freely or at discount price which organized by the that society. There are five types of Affiliated Societies of Students' Union in HKUST:

• Independent Clubs Association and Independent Clubs
• Sports Association and Sports Clubs
• House Associations
• Departmental Societies
• School Societies

Independent Clubs Association and Independent Clubs

Independent Clubs Association and Independent Clubs are the interest club for the students, such as the AIESEC-LC-HKUST, the Band Society, the Drama Society , the Magic Club and People's Campus Radio. Now there are over 30 independent clubs at HKUST, which make great contribution to the diversity of campus life. The functions provided by them also enrich the students in a variety of ways.

Sports Association and Sports Clubs

Sports Association and Sports Clubs are the students' societies that promote sports activities to students.

House Associations

House Association is the students' society of the undergraduate student hall. Each undergraduate student hall would have its own House which is responsible to organize extra-circular activities for the House Association's members. Since the New Hall is the newly built undergraduate student hall, it does not have its own house for organizing activities.

Departmental Societies

Each department in HKUST would have its own departmental society. The departmental societies would organize different activities to their departments' students.

Providing activities to students, departmental societies are also responsible for promoting their corresponding department on outreach day which is for giving information of the university to high school students.

School Societies

Apart from the departmental societies, each school would have its own School Society. The School Societies coordinate with the departmental societies which belong to the same school and organize different activities to the students belong to that school.

Center of the Arts

The Center of the Arts stages exhibitions, concerts, films and performances on campus; supports students and staff in organizing various arts activities; and organizes student cultural exchange activities with mainland universities and international institutions.

Language Center

The objectives of the Language Centre provides courses for many foreign languages. Such as French, Japanese, German, Spanish. They are non-credit courses. They are only for students who are interested in learning those foreign language. Also, it provides different kinds of learning materials, such as fictions, practical books and movies.

LIBRA (Language Immersion by Residence Abroad)

LIBRA is a language immersion programme that enables undergraduates to visit an English-speaking country for language study and cultural exposure. Under the LIBRA Programme, selected students will:

• be enrolled on a two-week English Language course at a local college in an English-speaking country; take formal lessons in small classes and engage in some project work;
• go on guided excursions to places of interest;take part in varied activities organised by the college;
• stay in the home of a local English-speaking family.
• pay for the flight tickers, accommodation and language courses those local colleges in a very attractive price

LIBRA was first offered in January 2005, and a total of five sessions have been held, taking students to Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Jersey, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Over 640 students have gone overseas on the LIBRA Programme.

Honors Track Study (Applies to Engineering Students Only)

Honors Track students must be academically equipped to keep up with the demanding pace of the accelerated courses. Minimum entrance requirements are:

Outstanding A-Level results with B average or above in three subjects, one of which must be A-Level Pure Mathematics. Early admission students or students who have completed Year 0 with at least a CGA of B+, obtained a grade of B+ or above in both Mathematics courses. Students in the Honors Track are required to maintain a cumulative grade average (CGA) of A- or above every semester. Students with lower CGA will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Current students with good academic results will also be invited to join the honors study track halfway.

Fok Ying Tung Graduate School

January 25, 2007, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) officially named its Graduate School in Nansha as HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School in a ceremony that combined the official opening of the Graduate School and the ground breaking of its Nansha campus. HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School

Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at HKUST champions collaborative projects across disciplines and institutions. They have the mission to forge strong relationships with academic, business, community, and government leaders to make a difference in the academic and scientific world, and to transform Hong Kong and the Greater China region into a global source of creative and intellectual power. The IAS organised its inaugural lecture by noted scientist Prof. Stephen Hawking in June 2006.

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• Education in Hong Kong
• Higher education in Hong Kong
• List of universities in Hong Kong
• List of buildings and structures in Hong Kong
• LAOTSE, an international network of universities in Europe and Asia, including HKUST
• Hong Kong Virtual University, a collaboration project initiated by HKUST

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External links

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• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology official homepage
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• A picture of the University
• HKUST Business School
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST
• Genesis,An online publication for UST news
• HKUST International Business Plan Competition USF MBA Podcast, May 2007
• 3D map
• Master of Science in Global Finance - partnership between NYU Stern School of Business and HKUST