Facts & Figures
HKUST is an elite international university that offers a world of opportunity. Consistently ranked among the top-tier universities in Asia, our success is clear from the numbers.
STUDENT ENROLLMENT (AS OF OCT 2022)
Undergraduate | Postgraduate | Total | |
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Science | 2,201 | 1,346 | 3,547 |
Engineering | 3,522 | 2,464 | 5,986 |
Business and Management | 3,523 | 1,665 | 5,188 |
Humanities and Social Science | 348 | 557 | 905 |
Interdisciplinary Programs | 318 | 495 | 813 |
Joint School | 543 | 283 | 826 |
Total | 10,455 | 6,810 | 17,265 |
POSTGRADUATES FIGURES (AS OF OCT 2022)
Research Postgraduate | Taught PG | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
MPhil | PhD | |||
Science | 151 | 630 | 565 | 1,346 |
Engineering | 244 | 1,163 | 1,057 | 2,464 |
Business and Management | 44 | 78 | 1,543 | 1,665 |
Humanities and Social Sciences | 40 | 26 | 491 | 557 |
Interdisciplinary Programs | 43 | 97 | 355 | 495 |
Joint School | 0 | 0 | 283 | 283 |
Total | 522 | 1,994 | 4,294 | 6,810 |
ENROLMENT BY GENDER (AS OF SEP 2022)
Undergraduate | Postgraduate | Total | |
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Female | 3,930 | 857 | 4,787 |
Male | 6,548 | 6,246 | 12,794 |
Total | 10,478 | 7,103 | 17,581 |
NON LOCAL STUDENTS(2022-23)
Undergraduate | Postgraduate | Total | ||
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Research | Taught | |||
Mainland China |
966 | 1,760 | 2,983 | 5,709 |
Other places in Asia | 883 | 235 | 135 | 1,253 |
Rest of the world | 207 | 78 | 58 | 343 |
Total | 2,056 | 2,073 | 3,176 | 7,305 |
TEACHING STAFF (AS OF JUN 2022) (FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT)
Regular | Visiting | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
Science | 197 | 6 | 203 |
Engineering | 259 | 19 | 278 |
Business and Management | 155 | 33 | 188 |
Humanities and Social Science | 152 | 6 | 158 |
Interdisciplinary * | 51 | 6 | 57 |
Total | 767 | 68 | 835 |
RESEARCH FUNDING
Funding (HK$M) | |
---|---|
2007 - 2008 | 369.6 |
2008 - 2009 | 447 |
2009 - 2010 | 432.6 |
2010 - 2011 | 409.3 |
2011 - 2012 | 444.1 |
2012 - 2013 | 548.4 |
2013 - 2014 | 485.2 |
2014 - 2015 | 521.8 |
2015 - 2016 | 578.4 |
2016 - 2017 | 690.9 |
2017 - 2018 | 657 |
2018 - 2019 | 836.1 |
2019 - 2020 | 1080.1* |
2020 - 2021 | 1033.6* |
2021 - 2022 | 1082.8** |
2022-2023 | 956.1** |
*Includes R&D projects administrated by R&D Corporation and Mainland platforms.
FACULTY PROFILE
100% with doctorate degree and majority from the following universities: (Only tenure track faculty - Assistant Professor or above) |
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Boston | Brown | Cambridge | Carnegie-Mellon |
Chicago | Columbia | Cornell | Duke |
Harvard | Illinois | London | Maryland |
Michigan | MIT | New York | Northwestern |
Oxford | Pennsylvania | Princeton | Purdue |
Southern California | Stanford | Toronto | UBC |
UC Berkeley | UCLA | Washington | Yale |