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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".
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.
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.
The University of Hong Kong is a member of Pacific Rim University Alliance, Pine Alliance, Universitas2 1, China University Presidents Association, Guangdong-Hong Kong University Alliance, Beijing-Hong Kong University Alliance and Shanghai-Hong Kong University Alliance, and a member of AACSB and EQUIS. It is the first scientific research unit in the world to identify the pathogen of SARS.
By the end of 20021and 10, 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 and so on.
From 1989 to 20 13, the research team of the University of Hong Kong won 20 national natural science awards, national technological invention awards and national scientific and technological progress awards, among which the first Hong Kong scientist was born.