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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.
1ST
World Leading or Internationally Excellent Research Work among Universities in Hong Kong1
1ST
World's Top Executive MBA Program2
3RD
World's Top Young University3
7TH
Top Asian University4
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.
Faculty
100%
with PHD Degrees
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
740+
Faculty from
40
Countries and Regions
13.9%
North America
0.3%
Central &
South
America
South
America
8.8%
Europe
0.4%
Africa
9.4%
Other
Asian
Countries
Asian
Countries
41.4%
Mainland
24.3%
Hong Kong
1.6%
Australia &
New
Zealand
New
Zealand
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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.
