Chinese University Of Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Abbreviation: CUHK or The Chinese University) is the second oldest university in Hong Kong. Its languages of instruction are English, Cantonese Chinese, and Mandarin Chinese. The school is also the home to the Yale-China Chinese Language Center. In international university rankings, it is currently ranked the 3rd best university in Hong Kong, and the 5th best in Asia.
The university has 61 academic departments organized under eight faculties: arts, business administration, education, engineering, social science, medicine, science, and law. These departments are host to over 117 undergraduate programs and 247 postgraduate programs.
The CUHK has a great achievement in physical science and mathematics and is the only tertiary education institution in Hong Kong with Nobel Prize Laureates serving as professors, including Chen Ning Yang, James Mirrlees, Robert Alexander Mundell and Charles K. Kao (Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, 2009). Other notable faculty include mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, laureate of the prestigious Fields Medal and Veblen Prize, and computational theorist Andrew Yao, laureate of the Turing Award.
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