Calendar 2022-23

The University 5 Part 1 Academic Structure and Policy The Chinese University of Hong Kong is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of full-time and part-time programmes which lead to bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and doctorates. There are eight Faculties (Arts, Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Science, and Social Science), and 59 departments/ schools offering 84 major programmes and 83 minor programmes for undergraduate students. Postgraduate programmes including 43 MPhil–PhD programmes, 31 doctoral programmes, 142 master’s programmes, seven postgraduate diploma programmes, and one postgraduate certificate programme are offered by the Graduate School through its 60 graduate divisions. The Senate regulates instruction, education and research. The Faculties advise the Senate through the faculty boards on the programmes of study recommended by the departments/schools, which deliver disciplinary teaching. The Colleges, in turn, support the broader development of students as whole persons in addition to the provision of residential accommodation. All teaching staff and full-time undergraduate students, with a few exception of teachers belonging to research institutes or centres, belong to both a Faculty and to a College. n n Undergraduate Studies At its inception the University’s undergraduate curriculum was based on a combination of the credit unit system and the degree examination system. After a comprehensive review in the mid-1980s, the University decided to adopt a pure credit-unit-based curriculum structure. From 1991–92 onwards, greater flexibility was introduced into students’ selection of courses and pace of study. Full-time Undergraduate Studies Throughout the years the University has endeavoured to provide a wide variety of programmes to meet the changing needs of society. In 2022–23, four major and three minor programmes are introduced. Programme Title Faculty Major/Minor Biotechnology, Entrepreneurship and Healthcare Management Business Administration, Medicine and Science Major Computational Data Science Engineering and Science Major Earth and Environmental Sciences Science Major Learning Design and Technology Education, Engineering and Science Major Chinese Language (Cantonese) as a Second Language Arts Minor Chinese Language (Putonghua) as a Second Language Arts Minor Public History Arts Minor