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Motto | 博學篤行 | ||||||||||||||
Motto in English | Erudition and Perseverance [1] | ||||||||||||||
Type | Self-financing | ||||||||||||||
Established | 4 May 2010 (as Hang Seng Management College) 30 October 2018 (granted university status) | ||||||||||||||
Chairman | Diana Cesar (2021 - present), Louisa Cheang (2018 to 2021), Wai-wan Rose Lee Wai Mun (2013 to 2018) | ||||||||||||||
President | Professor Simon Ho | ||||||||||||||
Vice-president | Prof Hui, Y V (Academic and Research) Dr Tom FONG Wing Ho (Organizational Development) Prof Scarlet TSO Hung Associate Vice-President (Communications and Public Affairs) Prof WONG Po Choi Associate Vice-President (Technology and Smart Learning) | ||||||||||||||
Academic staff | 218 | ||||||||||||||
Students | 6,438 (Enrolment 2022/23) [2] | ||||||||||||||
Address | Hang Shin Link , , , Hong Kong 22°22′44.9″N114°12′41.4″E / 22.379139°N 114.211500°E | ||||||||||||||
Campus | New town | ||||||||||||||
Affiliations | Hang Seng Bank S.H. Ho Foundation Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) [3] | ||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 香港恒生大学 | ||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 香港恒生大學 | ||||||||||||||
Cantonese Yale | Hēunggóng Hàhngsāng Daaihhohk | ||||||||||||||
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The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) is a private university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. [4]
The institute was founded as Hang Seng Management College in 2010 from the Hang Seng School of Commerce. The college was granted university title in 2018.
Hang Seng Management College (HSMC) was founded in 2010 by the Hang Seng School of Commerce, in response to Chief Executive Donald Tsang's statement in his 2009 policy address that the self-financing higher education sector had room for expansion and was an important component of education services.[ citation needed ] In May 2010, the college was registered as an 'Approved Post Secondary College', and was approved to award degrees by the Chief Executive in Council.
In September 2010, the college began to offer its first three bachelor's degree with honours programmes, together with associate and pre-associate degree programmes originally offered by HSSC. The inauguration ceremony of the college was held on 28 January 2011.
In June 2011, the college announced the foundation of the School of Communication. Professor Scarlet Cho was the first dean of the school. Starting from year 2011/12, the college stopped offering the Pre-associate Degree in Business Administrations programme.
In November and December 2013, HSMC obtained accreditation from the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications for the following five programmes and was approved by the Education Bureau to offer degree programmes: [5] Bachelor of Business Administration in Financial Analysis (Honours), Bachelor of Management Science and Information Management (Honours), Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) in Corporate Governance, Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) in Management, and Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Data Science and Business Intelligence.
On 30 October 2018, the Chief Executive-in-Council approved the retitling of Hang Seng Management College into a university under Section 8(1) of the Post Secondary Colleges Ordinance, [6] following an institutional review by the HKCAAVQ. [7] The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong would be the city's 11th degree-awarding institution classified as a university, and its second private university after the Hong Kong Shue Yan University.
The Chief Executive in Council approved the university status of Hang Seng Management College (HSMC) on 30 October 2018. The HSMC is the first self-financing post-secondary education institution to acquire a university title since the publication of the revised roadmap of criteria for acquiring university title for post-secondary colleges registered under the Ordinance in 2015. [8]
The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong is ranked #550-600 in QS university ranking for Asian in 2023. [9]
The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong consists of five schools.
Undergraduate Programmes
Postgraduate Programmes
List of Key Academic and Administrative Officers (2019/2020) | ||
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President | Dean of School of Business
| University Librarian
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Provost
| Dean of School of Communication
| Registrar
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Vice-President (Academic and Research)
| Dean of School of Decision Sciences
| Director of Student Affairs
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Vice-President (Organisational Development)
| Dean of School of Humanities and Social Science
| Director of Finance
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Associate Vice-President (Communications and Public Affairs)
| Dean of School of Translation
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Associate Vice-President (Technology and Smart Learning)
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