our focus on the recruitment of female undergraduates
into our science and engineering programs. Our
postgraduates also continue to diversify.
BROAD AND DEEP EDUCATION
As the first four-year undergraduate degree cohort
completed Year 2, the University reviewed courses
and advisory systems as students prepared to move
on from the Core Curriculum. It was gratifying to
see nearly all students attained their first choice
of major subject and recognition must be made
of faculty members’ immense efforts to set up an
effective framework and curricula to enable such
THE GLOBAL CAMPUS
It is one of HKUST’s major goals to diversify the campus
to prepare our some 13,000 undergraduate and
postgraduate students for their roles as global citizens.
As a result of enterprise and hard work in recruitment,
program initiatives, and the attrac tion of high
achievement, HKUST now has the most diverse non-
local undergraduate students among University Grants
Committee-funded tertiary institutions, with 45% from
Asia and the rest of the world and 55% from Mainland
China. This has been assisted by the growing number
and range of our scholarships, with more than 1,630
leading undergraduates receiving awards for academic
and other achievements in 2013-14. We have increased
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