Vice-Chancellor's Report 1978-82

as Potential Medical Majors in 1981/82. Other Science Departments in fact all registered a slight decrease in enrolment during the four-year period. But the decrease was more than made up for by the increases in Computer Science and Electronics students. Enrolment in the other three Faculties in the University was fairly stable during this period. In the Faculty of Arts, student number declined slightly from 1,062 in 1978/79 to 1,040 in 1981/82. The Faculty of Business Administration showed a sharp rise i n student enrolment in 1979/80 from the previous year but the number fell back in the next two years from a peak of 935 students in 1979/80. Enrolment in the Faculty of Social Science also dipped slightly from 1,235 in 1978/79 to 1,224 in 1981/82. Fewer students were enrolled in the Departments of Economics, Geography and Sociology. But the fall in student enrolment in these Departments was offset by increases in the Departments of Government and Public Administration, Journalism and Communication, and Social Work. In 1980/81 ， Anthropology began to offer a major programme and enrolled its first batch of 15 students. This was increased to 28 in 1981/82. As the University has always emphasized the importance of postgraduate education, and has a strong policy of encouraging research work, the Graduate School continued to expand while the undergraduate student body stayed more or less constant. Ph.D. Programmes in Chinese Studies, Electronics and Physics were first offered within this period. The full-time graduate student number rose from 276 to 378 during the three-year period 1979-82. The increases were most pronounced in Science Departments, especially in the Departments of Electronics, Physics, and also Statistics which started to offer a graduate programme for the first time in 1981/82. The postgraduate degree course with the largest enrolment remained theTwo-year MBA Programme which had a total of 74 students in 1981/82. A significant increase in student number was also registered in the full-time Diploma in Education courses. Where part-time postgraduate courses were concerned, the enrolment in theThree-year MBA Programme stabilized after rising from 84 in 1978/79 to 124 students in 1979/80. Enrolment in the part-time Diploma in Education day programme was less predictable. After rising to 288 students in 1981, it fell to 235 in the following year. Enrolment in the evening programme, however, 10