The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a comprehensive international public research university in Hong Kong, China, and is known as the "Ivy League" in Asia. The school motto is "Mingde Wu Ge", which corresponds to Homo sapiens and Virtus in Latin. ?

The University of Hong Kong was founded on 19 10 on March 6/kloc-0, and was formally incorporated on March 30 of the following year. Its predecessor is Hong Kong College of Western Medicine, which is the oldest higher education institution in Hong Kong. The University of Hong Kong was very small in its early days. From the official opening of classes in March 2002191to the first graduation ceremony in February 19 16, there were only 23 graduates.

1after April 9, 948, the reconstruction of school order and structural transformation simultaneously entered the golden age of rapid development. In September of 20021year, Hong Kong University (Shenzhen) was jointly established with Shenzhen. ?

Since its establishment, HKU has always used English as its teaching method, and academic research can be seamlessly connected with Europe and the United States, benefiting from this. For a long time, HKU, which is good at medicine, business, humanities, politics and law, has always been a unique banner of China's higher education, enjoying a high reputation in Asia and even the world.

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As of 20 18, 1 1, HKU has full professors 1087, 659 international professors (internationalization ratio is 60.6%), and 4 academicians of China Academy of Sciences 12 and China Academy of Engineering.

By the end of 202 1 and 1, HKU had 10 colleges and research institutes, with 8,636 faculty members and 3 1844 students, in the fields of economy, finance, accounting, biomedicine, dentistry, education, humanities, law, linguistics and political science.