HKUST FACTS AND FIGURES 2012
FIGURES AT A GLANCE Opening • October 1991 Faculty Members • 515 Student Enrollment • Total Enrollment 10,236 • Undergraduate 6,410 • Postgraduate 3,826 Schools • School of Science • School of Engineering• School of Business and Management • School of Humanities and Social Science • HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School
Academic Departments and Divisions • 20 Research Institutes • 9 Research Centers • 44
Student Numbers (as at Jan 2012)
School / Area Undergraduate Postgraduate Total
Science Engineering
Business & Management Humanities & Social Science HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School Interdisciplinary Programs Office
Total 1,506 2,373 2,200 35 N/A 296 6,410 488 1,568 1,388 260 22 100 3,826 1,994 3,941 3,588 295 22 396 10,236 Recent Trends in the Number of Non-local Students
Number of Students 1,299 7,524 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 1,677 7,323 1,995 7,132 2,137 7,134 2,395 7,120 2,677 7,204 3,012 7,224
Teaching Staff Numbers (as at Jan 2012)
School/Division Regular Visiting Total
Science Engineering
Business & Management Humanities & Social Science Division of Environment
(Under Interdisciplinary Programs Office)
104 149 132 58 8 21 20 14 8 1 125 169 146 66 9 Total 451 64 515 Faculty Profile
100% with doctorate degree 80% from the following universities: • Caltech • Cambridge • Carnegie-Mellon • Chicago • Columbia • Cornell • Harvard • Illinois • Imperial • London • Michigan • MIT • Northwestern • Oxford • Princeton • Purdue • Stanford • Toronto • UBC • UC Berkeley • UCLA • Washington • Wisconsin • Yale
Research
No. of New Research Projects
Sponsor Project Commencement Year
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
HKSAR Govt (UGC / RGC) 375 384 379 377 414 373 418
Others 176 182 220 207 236 246 230
Total 551 566 599 584 650 619 648
New Research Funding
Funding (in HK$M) 283.6 254.2 324.2 369.6 447 432.6 409.3 10,000 5,000 0 Academic Year Non-Local Local-HK
RANKINGS
HKUST #1 World’s Top 200 Asian Universities QS Asian University Rankings 2012 #40 World’s Top 200 Universities QS World University Rankings 2011 #3 World’s Top 100 Universities Under 50 Times Higher Education Top 100
Universities Under 50 2012
#62 World’s Top 200 Universities Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011
School of Science #9 Asia’s Top 50 Universities in Natural Science
(#2 in Hong Kong) QS Asian University Rankings 2012 #14 Asia’s Top 50 Universities in
Life Sciences and Medicine QS Asian University Rankings 2012 School of Engineering #21 World’s Top 100 Universities in
Computer Science (#1 in Greater China)
Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2011 #22 World’s Top 100 Universities in
Engineering and Technology (#1 in Hong Kong)
QS World University Rankings 2011 #28 World’s Top 50 Engineering and
Technology Universities (#1 in Greater China)
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011
#36 World’s Top 100 Universities in Engineering / Technology and Computer Sciences (#2 in Greater China)
Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2011 School of Business and
Management #1 Global EMBA Ranking (for the School’s Kellogg-HKUST EMBA Program) Financial Times EMBA Rankings 2011 #10 Global MBA Ranking
(for the School’s Full-Time MBA Program) Financial Times MBA Rankings 2012 #10 Asia’s Top 50 Universities in
Social Sciences & Management QS Asian University Rankings 2012 #17 Top 100 Business School Research Rankings
(#1 in Asia) University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Business School Rankings 2012 #45 World’s Top 100 Universities in Economics /
Business (#1 in Asia) Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2011 School of Humanities &
Social Science #10 Asia’s Top 50 Universities in Social Sciences & Management QS Asian University Rankings 2012 #52-75 World’s Top 100 Universities in Social Sciences
(#1 in Greater China) Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2011
New Research Funding
