HKUST Annual Report 2016-17

Over 1,000,000 learners registered for the HKUST MOOCs courses ” “ 13 term, with 282 students participating in Summer 2017. Destinations included London School of Economics and Political Science, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Princeton University, Stanford University, UCLA and UC Berkeley. In addition, HKUST ran a pilot to encourage students to study abroad at Belt and Road destinations. New overseas summer study abroad destinations included Universiti Brunei Darussalam (Brunei), Tallinn University (Estonia), Jagiellonian University (Poland), National Chengchi University (Taiwan) and Singapore Management University (Singapore). Celebrating Achievements Scholarships at HKUST honor academic and non-academic merits, encouraging students to excel in different activities. In 2016-17, over 1,640 undergraduate students were awarded 2,050 scholarships recognizing a diverse range of capabilities and achievements. Around 24% of undergraduate students gained more than one scholarship. In city-wide competitive scholarships, HKUST received eight out of total of 25 awards in the Innovation and Technology Scholarship Award Scheme and three out of 10 awardees in the Hong Kong government’s Targeted Scholarship Scheme. Boosting Campus Integration The University encourages student- initiated activities via a range of schemes, including the President’s 1-HKUST Student Life Award (46 projects), Student Enrichment Activities Fund (57 projects) and the Graduate Student Life Fund (15 projects). Activities included Humans of HKUST, which encourages student sharing on their different backgrounds and experiences, and Hackathon@HKUST, the largest student-driven event of its kind in Asia that attracted over 600 local and overseas participants. The Student Affairs Office piloted the English-based Exploring China – Pearl River Delta Trip for non-Chinese speaking students. The program