 The University campus occupies a 60-hectare (150-acre) site of sweeping natural beauty on the Clear Water Bay peninsula in East Kowloon, less than 30 minutes' driving time from central Hong Kong.
Construction began in 1989 and the first phase was completed in 1991, providing accommodation for 2,000 students. The second phase was completed in early 1993, increasing accommodation to 7,000 students.
In addition to classrooms, laboratories, and other academic facilities, the campus includes student housing and faculty apartments, as well as athletic and recreational facilities.
Studios, workshops, music rooms, television and game rooms, meeting rooms, common rooms, and office space for student societies are all part of the main academic complex.
Athletic facilities include a multi-purpose sports hall, an athletic field with all weather turf, modern running tracks, playing fields, tennis courts, squash courts, an Olympic-size outdoor swimming pool, and an indoor swimming pool.
A full range of campus services including restaurants, bookstore, visitor lodgings and banks are also offered. |
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) was founded in 1991 and has rapidly established a global reputation for excellence. As a dynamic, front-running research university, HKUST focuses on both pioneering research in the fields of science, engineering, business and management, humanities and social science, and innovative teaching and learning.
The world-class standing of faculty members and a well-designed research infrastructure have seen HKUST achieve numerous, ground-breaking discoveries, and the University has been ranked among leading higher education institutions worldwide.
HKUST combines academic insights with innovative instruction to produce a unique environment for teaching and learning. Pioneering programs, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, contribute to HKUST's reputation for both academic excellence and relevance. Teachers and students alike participate in research-based teaching, working together on the search for new discoveries, the transfer of knowledge, and the application of that knowledge to new ideas, new technologies, new businesses and directions for future learning.
From its inception, HKUST has promoted the establishment of multi-disciplinary research institutes as one of its key strategies for fulfilling that element of the HKUST charter dealing with "assisting in the economic and social development of Hong Kong".
In general, HKUST benefits from the establishment of research institutes in the following aspects:
