Calendar 2024-25

Part 1 The University 5 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 60 departments/ schools offering 85 major programmes and 76 minor programmes for undergraduate students. Postgraduate programmes including 44 MPhil-PhD programmes, 26 doctoral programmes, 149 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 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 2024-25, one major and three minor programmes are introduced. Programme Title Faculty Major/Minor Aerospace Science and Earth Informatics & X Double Major Programme Engineering, Science and Social Science Major Religion and Health Arts Minor Applied Diversity Studies Social Science Minor Global Communication Social Science Minor