International Hub

The educational value to our students of having exposure to an internationalized campus and opportunities overseas cannot be underestimated. The University is proud that it has consistently succeeded in expanding horizons.

In 2003-04, 286 HKUST students spent one semester at an institution outside Hong Kong and 12 went for a full year. Meanwhile, 268 non-local students attended HKUST on exchange for a semester and nine spent a year at HKUST. To implement this the University has built up a network of more than 100 exchange partners in the Mainland, US, Canada, UK, Western Europe, Asia, Australia, Mexico, Czech Republic and New Zealand. Nineteen new partners were added this year alone.

Campus has played host to visitors from around the world during the year. They have included Nobel laureates, politicians and top university administrators who hailed from Australia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Sweden, UK and the US, among other countries. Academic agreements were concluded with institutions in widely differing locations, including general co-operation with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; and student exchanges between the Leon Kozminksi Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management in Poland, and Monterrey Tech University School of Business in Mexico.