The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university located in China SAR. It was established on 19 10 on March 6/kloc-0, and was officially registered on March 30 of the following year. It is the oldest institution of higher education 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. When World War II broke out, the University of Hong Kong was paralyzed for a time, and the teaching in 194 1 was completely interrupted. 1948 after classes resumed on April 9, the school entered a golden period of rapid development, with order reconstruction and structural transformation coexisting.
Due to the particularity of the colony, HKU has been teaching in English since its establishment, and academic research can be seamlessly connected with Europe and the United States, which also benefits from it. 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.
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a comprehensive research university with ten colleges and an independent research institute. 19 1 1 was established in Pokfulam, Hong Kong Island, and 19 12 officially opened, which is the first higher education institution in Hong Kong. Its predecessor is the Hong Kong College of Western Medicine, which was established in 1887. HKU has been teaching in English since the founding of the People's Republic of China. He has outstanding academic research in the fields of law, psychology and biomedicine. For example, HKU's research team is the first research unit in the world to successfully identify and report coronavirus (the pathogen of atypical pneumonia). In addition, the college has trained many celebrities in Hong Kong society, including academics in law, politics, science and medicine.
social status
Before the establishment of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKU was the only university in Hong Kong. Among the 15 bureau directors and bureau directors of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, 1 1 are from the University of Hong Kong, which shows that Hong Kong university students occupy a certain position within the government and are even known as the "Hong Kong University Gang". According to the annual report of the University of Hong Kong, 34. 1% of the newly recruited civil servants in the degree grade in 2009 were fresh graduates of the University of Hong Kong, the highest among all tertiary institutions in Hong Kong since 2006. Professor Jin, former president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, even called HKU the "Civil Service Training Institute" of Hong Kong.