First, the school profile

1. 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 Et Virtus; In Latin;

2. The University of Hong Kong was established on 19 10 March 16, and was formally incorporated on March 30th 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.

3.1After April 9, 948, the reconstruction of school order and structural transformation simultaneously entered the golden age of rapid development. In September 20021year, the University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) was established in cooperation with Shenzhen; Since the establishment of HKU, English teaching has been adopted, and academic research can be seamlessly connected with Europe and the United States, which also benefits from it.

4. For a long time, HKU, which is good at medicine, business, humanities, politics and law, is a unique banner of China's higher education and enjoys a high reputation in Asia and even the world. HKU is a member of Pacific Rim University Alliance, Song Alliance, Universitas 2 1, China University Presidents Association, Guangdong-Hong Kong University Alliance, Beijing-Hong Kong University Alliance and Shanghai-Hong Kong University Alliance;

5.AACSB and EQUIS are double-certified members, and they are the first scientific research unit in the world to identify the pathogen of infectious atypical pneumonia; As of 202 1, 10, HKU * * * has ten colleges and research institutes with 8,636 faculty members and 3 1844 students;

6. Demonstrated strong scientific research strength in the fields of economy, finance, accounting, biomedicine, dentistry, education, humanities, law, linguistics, political science, social science, etc.

Second, cultural traditions.

School emblem:. From the design of the national emblem, we can see the expectation of the founder of the university-to develop it into a university combining Chinese and western; Blue and green in the background represent the Hong Kong Island where the university is located and the scenery surrounded by bagels respectively. At present, the coat of arms adopted is based on the drawing of the coat of arms institute of 1958. The school motto is "Mingde Wu Ge", which corresponds to Homo sapiens and Virtus in Latin.