FIGURES AT A GLANCE
RECENT TRENDS IN THE NUMBER
OF NON-LOCAL STUDENTS
HKUST
FACTS AND FIGURES
2014
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
Schools, Programs Offices, Institutes
Opening
• October 1991
Faculty Members
• 644
• School of Science
• School of Engineering
• School of Business and Management
• School of Humanities and Social Science
• FYT Graduate School / FYT Research Institute
Academic Departments
and Divisions
• 20
Research Institutes
• 12
Research Centers
• 51
STUDENT NUMBERS
(AS AT SEP 2014)
Total 13,456*
*data as of Sept 2014
Student Enrollment
Non-Local Local-HK
• XJTU-HKUST Joint School of Sustainable Development
• Interdisciplinary Programs Office
• HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study
• HKUST Institute for Public Policy and Administration
Undergraduate and Postgraduate
RANKINGS
(AS AT NOV 2014)
RESEARCH
HKUST #1 World's Top 300 Asian Universities (3 years in a row) QS Asian University Rankings 2011-2013 #1 World's Top 50 Universities Under 50 (2 years in a row) QS Top 50 Under 50 2012-2013
#40 World's Top 800 Universities QS World University Rankings 2014
#51 World's Top 400 Universities Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014 / 2015 School of Science #11 Asia's Top 100 Universities in Natural Sciences QS Asian University Rankings 2014
(No. 2 in Hong Kong)
#12 Asia's Top 100 Universities in Life Sciences and Medicine QS Asian University Rankings 2014 #65 World's Top 400 Universities in Natural Sciences (No. 2 in Hong Kong) QS World University Rankings 2014 School of #8 Asia's Top 100 Universities in Engineering & Technology QS Asian University Rankings 2014
Engineering (No. 1 in Hong Kong)
#15 World's Top 400 Universities in Engineering & Technology QS World University Rankings 2014 (No. 1 in Hong Kong for 5 years in a row)
#21 World's Top 100 Universities in Engineering and Technology Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014 / 2015 (No. 1 in Greater China)
School of #1 Global EMBA Ranking - for the School's Kellogg-HKUST EMBA Program Financial Times EMBA Rankings 2009-2013 Business and
Management #14 Global MBA Ranking - for the School's Full-Time MBA Program Financial Times MBA Rankings 2014 #8 Asia’s Top 100 Universities in Social Sciences & Management QS Asian University Rankings 2014
#20 Top 100 Business School Research Rankings (No.1 in Asia) University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Business School Research
Rankings 2014
School of #8 Asia’s Top 100 Universities in Social Sciences & Management QS Asian University Rankings 2014 Humanities & #26 World's Top 400 Universities in Social Sciences & Management QS World University Rankings 2014
Social Science #38 World's Top 100 Universities in Social Sciences Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014 / 2015 #39 Asia's Top 100 Universities in Arts & Humanities QS Asian University Rankings 2014
#76-100 World's Top 200 Universities in Social Sciences Academic Ranking of World Universities by
(No. 1 in Greater China) Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2014
(No. 2 in Greater China) (5 years in a row)
8,981*
Undergraduate Postgraduate4,475*
Academic Year 1,677 7,323 1,995 7,132 2,137 7,134 2,395 7,120 2,677 7,204 3,012 7,224 3,625 3,826 9,454 9,630 1,299 7,524Undergraduate Postgraduate Total
2,728 Science 648 5,201 Engineering 2,031 4,578 Business & Management
3,160 1,418
453 Humanities & Social Science
204 249
53 HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School
53 443 Interdisciplinary Programs 367 76 2,080 3,170 05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14
New Research Funding
Funding (in HK$M) 283.6 254.2 324.2 369.6 447 432.6 409.3 444.1 548.4 485.2** No. of New Research Projects
Sponsor Project Commencement Year
04-05 05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 HKSAR Govt (UGC / RGC) 375 384 379 377 414 373 418 509 467 527 Others 176 182 220 207 236 246 230 242 311 349 Total 551 566 599 584 650 619 648 751 753 855*
* No. of projects does not add up due to projects with multiple sponsors. ** Includes R&D projects administrated by R and D Corporation and Mainland platforms. Excludes R-portion i.e. on-costs, PI costs and HSS Premium provided by RGC for ERG projects.
