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The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Tsui Lap-Chee, said today that "HKU has always had an international reputation that has led to it admitting many international students over the years. We will continue to enhance our position as the most internationalized university in the area, particularly in the undergraduate student body, but we would also like to continue our tradition of being an educational hub for advanced study by postgraduate students from the Asia-Pacific region." Many South-East Asian and South Asian countries are represented by students at the postgraduate level, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau SAR, Malaysia, Mali, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Vietnam, and, of course, Mainland China.
There are altogether 877 research postgraduates, 1445 taught postgraduates and 750 undergraduates making up this 3000-strong international student body. The numbers include several hundred undergraduate exchange students visiting HKU for a semester or a year from their home university, with matching numbers of HKU undergraduates going abroad to those universities. A further 280 exchange students are expected in HKU in the second semester of this academic year. The total number of countries now represented at HKU by the country of residence of the students is 58.
Prof. Spinks, Senior Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor, said that the larger number of international students has been particularly noticed by visitors to the campus over the last couple of years. He was convinced that it was having a beneficial effect on local students, particularly in terms of English language development and increased cultural sensitivity. The Hong Kong students, in turn, were helping to contribute further to the educational experience of the international students. They act as "buddies" for them the moment they step out of Chep Lap Kok, helping them to learn about local customs, transport and language.
"The development of global competencies, that is, a global vision, cultural empathy and understanding, global communication and negotiating skills and the ability to help globalise a firm and manage multicultural teams, are vital for graduating students today, particularly those wishing to go into large companies with international subsidiaries or an international vision" said Professor Spinks. "A London Business School survey last year had placed 'Greater global outlook' as the top of its list of the most relevant factors in executive education, while a survey of CEOs, CFOs & CIOs in the previous year had identified International Business as the areas of knowledge that was predicted to increase most in the next five years. Furthermore, the critical problems of today, such as poverty, security, health, human rights, were all ones that could be debated on campus from a multicultural perspective. These are all reasons why the University has encouraged the internationalization of its student body over the previous decade or two." He added.
"Our exchange partners of HKU have also been expanding over the past few years to include such universities as Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, UCLA, London and Melbourne", he said. "We have been particularly concentrating on the quality of these universities and the educational reputation of its students".
The newly launched International Business and Global Management programme is one of the most internationalized on campus. Not only has it, in its first year, leapt to the top as the programme now taking in the best students in the whole of Hong Kong, but it also admitted half of its F7 admissions from Europe and South-East Asia.
The full list of countries from which current HKU students have come is: Algeria, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Laos, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, U.K., U.S.A., Venezuela and Vietnam.
For media enquiries please contact Miss Cherry Cheung, Senior Press Officer, HKU (tel: 28592606).
No of International Students in HKU Exceeded 3,000 Benchmark
21 Oct 2005
The University of Hong Kong announced today that it has broken through the 3000 student mark for students from abroad who are currently studying at HKU. While the majority (60%) of these are from Mainland China, the University is accepting rapidly increasing numbers of students from all around the world, including Algeria, Brazil, Columbia, Chile, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Haiti, Iran, Liechtenstein, Mali, Mexico, Qatar Russia Tanzania and Venezuela.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Tsui Lap-Chee, said today that "HKU has always had an international reputation that has led to it admitting many international students over the years. We will continue to enhance our position as the most internationalized university in the area, particularly in the undergraduate student body, but we would also like to continue our tradition of being an educational hub for advanced study by postgraduate students from the Asia-Pacific region." Many South-East Asian and South Asian countries are represented by students at the postgraduate level, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau SAR, Malaysia, Mali, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Vietnam, and, of course, Mainland China.
There are altogether 877 research postgraduates, 1445 taught postgraduates and 750 undergraduates making up this 3000-strong international student body. The numbers include several hundred undergraduate exchange students visiting HKU for a semester or a year from their home university, with matching numbers of HKU undergraduates going abroad to those universities. A further 280 exchange students are expected in HKU in the second semester of this academic year. The total number of countries now represented at HKU by the country of residence of the students is 58.
Prof. Spinks, Senior Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor, said that the larger number of international students has been particularly noticed by visitors to the campus over the last couple of years. He was convinced that it was having a beneficial effect on local students, particularly in terms of English language development and increased cultural sensitivity. The Hong Kong students, in turn, were helping to contribute further to the educational experience of the international students. They act as "buddies" for them the moment they step out of Chep Lap Kok, helping them to learn about local customs, transport and language.
"The development of global competencies, that is, a global vision, cultural empathy and understanding, global communication and negotiating skills and the ability to help globalise a firm and manage multicultural teams, are vital for graduating students today, particularly those wishing to go into large companies with international subsidiaries or an international vision" said Professor Spinks. "A London Business School survey last year had placed 'Greater global outlook' as the top of its list of the most relevant factors in executive education, while a survey of CEOs, CFOs & CIOs in the previous year had identified International Business as the areas of knowledge that was predicted to increase most in the next five years. Furthermore, the critical problems of today, such as poverty, security, health, human rights, were all ones that could be debated on campus from a multicultural perspective. These are all reasons why the University has encouraged the internationalization of its student body over the previous decade or two." He added.
"Our exchange partners of HKU have also been expanding over the past few years to include such universities as Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, UCLA, London and Melbourne", he said. "We have been particularly concentrating on the quality of these universities and the educational reputation of its students".
The newly launched International Business and Global Management programme is one of the most internationalized on campus. Not only has it, in its first year, leapt to the top as the programme now taking in the best students in the whole of Hong Kong, but it also admitted half of its F7 admissions from Europe and South-East Asia.
The full list of countries from which current HKU students have come is: Algeria, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Laos, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, U.K., U.S.A., Venezuela and Vietnam.
For media enquiries please contact Miss Cherry Cheung, Senior Press Officer, HKU (tel: 28592606).
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