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Worldwide Recognition
We take pride in our institution not only because of our rankings, but we are also a university that cares about our people. Your ideas, your dreams and your well-being matter to us.
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1ST
World Leading or Internationally Excellent Research Work among Universities in Hong Kong1
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1ST
World's Top Executive MBA Program2
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2ND
World's Top Young University3
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7TH
Top Asian University4
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29TH
Global University Employability5
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Research Assessment Exercise 2020, University Grants Committee
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Financial Times’ World Best Executive MBA Programs, 2023
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THE Young University Rankings, 2023
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THE Asia University Rankings, 2023
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Global University Employability Ranking, 2024
Truly Global, Proudly Diverse Student Community
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Brilliant Minds
Be inspired by our outstanding faculty who are distinguished scholars, dedicated teachers and passionate life explorers.
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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
Including HKUST
*Tenure-track faculty (Assistant Professor or above) and research-track faculty
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South
America
Asian
Countries
New
Zealand
Research Excellence
HKUST provides strong infrastructural support for faculty and students to overcome traditional boundaries and cross-field challenges in their research. It creates an interdisciplinary environment that fosters cooperation, helps generate groundbreaking ideas, and allows these ideas to be tested and realized.