Hong Kong Shue Yan University

The school was founded with difficulty

In 1971, in view of the serious shortage of tertiary degrees in Hong Kong at that time, it provided high school graduates with opportunities for further studies. Zhong Qirong resigned from the post of Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences at Hong Kong Baptist College (now Hong Kong Baptist University). Hu Honglie invested all the wealth he earned as a barrister in founding a university and bought a 3-storey building on Cheng Wo Road in Happy Valley. Small bungalows are used as classrooms.

In 1978, the British Hong Kong government allocated a piece of land at Braemar Hill as the permanent site of Shue Yan College at that time. He insisted on laying 176 piles to build a 12-story university building. At that time, the British Hong Kong government suggested that the three tertiary colleges of Shue Yan College (now Hong Kong Shue Yan University), Lingnan College (now Hong Kong Lingnan University) and Baptist College (now Hong Kong Baptist University) should be changed to "two-year preparatory course, two-year junior college and One year of academic education" and financial assistance provided by it, but Shuren insisted on a four-year system and did not receive funding from the British Hong Kong government. He had been neglected by the British Hong Kong government at that time, and Shuren's development was severely restricted.

The course of name rectification

Hong Kong Shue Yan University (3 photos)

In 1985, Shue Yan College moved to its current location at Braemar Hill.

In 1995, the library building of Shue Yan College was completed.

In 1999, due to the education reform proposal issued by the Education Commission of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Shuren was mistakenly included in the "Continuing Education Institute" and degraded its legal status. Shuren gathered a variety of forces to set up the "Committee for Shuren to Become a Private University" to strive for support, and the university was recognized and received a wide range of positive responses.

In 2000, the Hong Kong Education and Manpower Bureau provided HK$4.6 million for its upgrading and evaluation fees, officially embarking on the road of upgrading and rectification.

In 2001, Shue Yan College passed the accreditation of the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation and was approved to offer 4 honours bachelor's degree programs, and revised the tertiary college regulations to become the first Hong Kong to award an honours bachelor's degree. Private institutions of higher learning, but they have not yet been renamed universities.

In 2005, Shuren's third main building, the Dormitory Wenkang Building, was finally completed after three years of construction, and it began to take shape as a university.

In 2006, the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation completed the last academic review of Shuren and formally passed its governance and quality assurance mechanism. In the same year, it was confirmed that Shuren had the qualifications for self-assessment. The Chief Executive in conjunction with the Executive Council decided to approve Shue Yan's name as "Hong Kong Shue Yan University", with immediate effect, becoming Hong Kong's first statutory financially self-financing university.

In 2017, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government funded the establishment of the research institute complex.

In 2018, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong ordered the approval of Hong Kong Shue Yan University to award master's and doctoral degrees in multiple courses.

School conditions

Department settings

(Source of form content: Hong Kong Shue Yan University official website)

School Features

The Department of Chinese Literature was established when Shuren was founded. It has been shouldering the mission of promoting traditional Chinese culture and promoting the "education for the benevolent." It has been offering a four-year honorary diploma course, which was reviewed and approved by the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation. In 2001, the first honorary degree students were recruited. The Department of Chinese Literature inherits Chinese traditional culture, provides students with comprehensive and systematic Chinese subject knowledge, combines research and creation, improves biliteracy and trilingualism, pays attention to moral and aesthetic education, and cultivates independent thinking and creative thinking skills.

The Department of History is student-oriented. It cultivates students not only to have a deep understanding of Chinese history, but also to gain a comprehensive understanding of world history, and to cultivate a balanced vision. Under the trend of globalization, Have the understanding of history that Hong Kong and Chinese citizens should have, and acquire a series of skills suitable for future work or further studies.

The Department of Business Administration aims to educate students to become business professionals who can change the world. Adhering to the mission of "as a scholar and as a good citizen, to cultivate individual students as a whole with moral qualities and to give full play to their potential", promote business ethics education within the framework of traditional Chinese cultural values and modern norms, and cultivate a sense of social responsibility and society Responsible business professionals cultivate business education clusters characterized by benevolence. Student activities and student activities contribute to business and social progress in Hong Kong and the Mainland.

Student Activities

The Office of Student Affairs orders facilities for students or student associations to organize activities, is responsible for establishing contacts with social groups, and provides guidance, coordination and financial support to ensure that activities go smoothly conduct. The Office of Student Affairs also arranges various activities, including academic exchanges and seminars, to allow students to develop in many ways.

Hong Kong Shue Yan University has a special association for Mainland Students of Hong Kong Shue Yan University, which is an important bridge for the school to connect students from the Mainland and Hong Kong.

Living facilities

Night view of HKSYU Shue Yan campus (3 photos)

The accommodation and facilities of Hong Kong Shue Yan University are located in Braemar Hill, North Point, Hong Kong, with a total of 30 floors, including students The dormitory has 17 floors, the upper floors of the student dormitories overlook Victoria Harbour, the staff dormitories have three floors, and the shared facilities have eight floors. The sports facilities in the complex include fitness rooms, swimming pools and multi-functional venues to create a healthy, pleasant and harmonious living and learning environment.

In addition to the research center, multi-purpose auditorium, multimedia laboratory, lecture hall and classrooms, the research complex of Hong Kong Shue Yan University Research Institute also provides 500 places for students. The number of university places has thus doubled. The building also reserves a spacious space for students to use, including multiple study rooms, rest rooms, computer rooms, cafes, rooftop gardens, etc. The podium also delineates a free activity area for students.

Cooperation and Exchange

Hong Kong Shue Yan University provides many opportunities for students to go out and exchange, Hong Kong Shue Yan University and Peking University, Fudan University, Xiamen University, Beijing Language and Culture University, China University of Political Science and Law , Beijing Normal University and other mainland universities, Charles Darwin University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, University of Melbourne, University of South Australia, Kinki University, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Yamaguchi University, University of Raman, Victoria University of Wellington and other international universities have established cooperative relations.

2015 Oxford Shue Yan Student Hong Kong Internship Program (4 photos)

Since its establishment, Hong Kong Shue Yan University has been establishing contacts and relationships with universities in the United States and Canada. In order to promote cultural exchanges, Shuren has co-organized summer courses in business management, accounting and sociology with Northeast Louisiana State University since 1972. The courses are held in Shuren campus. Shuren co-organized a sociology course with Palm Beach Atlantic College in 1974. The credits from these courses are recognized by American universities and recognized by the American Board of Education. Since 1988, Hong Kong Shue Yan University and the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom have jointly organized the Economics (Honours) Arts/Bachelor of Science course.

In addition, Hong Kong Shue Yan University and Peking University have been co-organizing a master's course in Modern Chinese History since 1994. In September 2015, Hong Kong Shue Yan University and Beijing Language and Culture University began to co-organize doctoral programs in Chinese, and the part-time doctoral programs were approved by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.

Academic Research

Scientific Research Institutions

Research Features

The Interdisciplinary Research Platform (IDS) is funded by ResearchGrantCouncil and aims at Three strategic research areas establish interdisciplinary collaboration: brain-based teaching and learning, decision-making, negotiation and persuasion.

●Using existing and newly acquired resources to establish an interdisciplinary platform to further conduct academic research and encourage inter-institutional interdisciplinary cooperation;

●Provide opportunities for academia , Gain knowledge from respected scholars and outstanding researchers;

●Develop research expertise in decision-making, negotiation and persuasion, and brain-based teaching and learning;

●Improve Teaching and learning in universities and educational institutions.

Cultural Tradition

Goal and Mission

HKSYU Shuren Teaching (6 photos)

To meet the actual needs of different industries in Hong Kong society, training ability and Young people who develop in an all-round and balanced manner; promote the humanistic spirit and freedom of learning, and make commitments to the higher education of Hong Kong; and lead by example to embody the virtues and cultivation of the humanistic spirit.

Inherit and promote traditional Chinese culture; cultivate students' comprehensive and balanced character, and show their potential in social, academic and personal life; provide knowledge and thinking training, exert independent critical thinking; combine theory and professional knowledge to create for the society The right talent.

University Motto

Dun Ren Museum, inviting students to become gentlemen with both benevolence and virtue. Push yourself and others, and the side is the benevolent.

"Being benevolent" is to cultivate the spirit of the benevolent, to discipline ourselves strictly, to treat others with generosity and honesty, to achieve "the one who wants to establish and achieve, and the one who wants to achieve and achieve." "Natural history" refers to the need to broaden and deepen learning, not to be careless, and to lay a solid foundation for future scholarship and service to the society.