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University of Macau
University of Macau
University of Macau Universidade de Macau ????
offers about 100 Doctoral, Master’s and Bachelor’s degree programs. English is the main medium of instruction, although certain programs are taught in Chinese, Portuguese and Japanese. The current Chancellor of UM is chief executive Edmund Ho and the Rector is Wei Zhao. The university’s campus on Taipa Island has expanded dramatically in recent years as a result of the region’s rapid economic development and Macau’s 1999 return to China. This expansion has allowed Macau to develop local talent as it evolves beyond its colonial past. Student enrollment rose from several hundred students in the 1980s to over five thousand today. Over the same period, the percentage of local Macanese students has soared from 39% to 80%[2].
Motto:
Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and sincerity University of Macau’s predecessor is the (Traditional Chinese:?????) privately owned University of East Asia 1981
History
which was established in 1981. The university started with several undergraduate Public Type: programs which followed the academic structure of British universities with three years of Wei Zhao Rector: study. English was the main medium of inUndergraduates: 4,529 [1] struction and the majority of the students were from Hong Kong.[2] 1,440 [1] Postgraduates: In 1988, the Macau government entrusted Av. Padre Tomás Pereira Taipa, Location: the Macau Foundation to acquire the uniMacau versity. The three-year undergraduate proUrban Campus: grams were expanded to four-year programs, while English remained the main medium of www.umac.mo Website: instruction. In 1991, a new university charter was put in place and the university became a The University of Macau (traditional public university and was renamed as Chinese: ????; Cantonese Yale: O Mun Dai University of Macau. The student enrollment Hok; Portuguese: Universidade de Macau), rose to about three thousands and the perestablished in 1981, was the first and curcentage of Macau students rose to above rently the largest (in terms of student popula80%.[2] Major construction began in 2003, tion) university in Macau, a former Porthat includes a new academic building, a stutuguese colony and now a Special Adminisdent center, four hostel buildings for housing trative Region of China. It was formerly students and stuff, a scientific research cenknown as University of East Asia ter building, as well as the Chinese Medicine (Portuguese: Universidade de Ásia de Leste; Center. The project is expected to be comtraditional Chinese: ????; Cantonese Yale: pleted in 2011.[3] Dung Ah Dai Hok), and was renamed the University of Macau in 1991. The university
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Faculties
University of Macau Administrative Building The university has five research faculties in the fields of Business Administration, Social Sciences and Humanities, Science and Technology, Law, and Education, as well as three education centers: Center for Pre-University Studies, Center for Continuing Studies and Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences. It offers doctorate, Master’s, undergraduate, and Bacharelato (higher diploma) programs with more than 360 academic staff members[4] involved in teaching or research.
The night view of the main campus in the University of Macau Portuguese, the Department of Psychology and the Department of Sociology. The Faculty provides more than 500 courses on average every semester, including Economics, Statistics, Econometrics, Political Science, Public Administration, Contemporary China Studies, Sociology, Chinese, Portuguese, English, Communications, Journalism and Public Communication, Psychology, Japanese, Historical and Cultural Relations between the East and the West, etc. The Faculty also offers a variety of master’s and doctoral programmes. Every year, the Faculty arranges interships in local companies and government departments. More than 12 exchange programmes have been established with universities in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Portugal and the USA.
Faculty of Business Administration
The Faculty of Business Administration is the largest faculty in the university enrolling about one-third of the undergraduate population[1]. The medium of instruction for courses offered in the faculty is English. Currently it offers nine different undergraduate programs through its three departments: Department of Accounting and Information Management, Department of Finance and Business Economics, and Department of Management and Marketing. In addition, the Faculty of Business Administration also offers a two-year MBA program as well as eight doctorate programs.
Faculty of Science and Technology
The Faculty of Science and Technology was founded in 1989. Currently, a solid undergraduate four-year degree in the following departments has been developed: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Department of Computer and Information Science and Department of Mathematics.
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities consists of the Department of Chinese, the Department of Communication, the Department of Economics, the Department of English, the Department of Government and Public Administration, the Department of
Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law offers bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral and postgraduate certificate programmes in the Chinese, Portuguese and English languages. The bachelor’s
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programmes is to prepare jurists who are familiar with Macao SAR legal system; the master’s and PhD Programmes purport to educate knowledgeable and qualified legal professional jurists who are competent to conduct theoretical research and teaching in Macao Law, Comparative Law, European Law, International Law and International Business Law. The teaching system of the Faculty basically follows the Roman-German regime with strict standards in teaching style, student recruitment and examination. The faculty members consist of legal experts from Macao, Mainland China, Portugal and other countries.
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Academic links
Since 1991, the university has established academic links and collaborations with more than 90 institutions around the world. It is a member of the International Association of Universities, the International Association of University Presidents, the Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific and the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific. The university’s student exchange programmes currently bring over 100 students every year from Europe, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United States. Starting in 2001, the university has been recruiting students in 14 provinces and cities in China.
Faculty of Education
The Faculty of Education offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programmes. The Faculty provides degree programmes of Secondary Education in Chinese, English and Mathematics, Primary Education and PrePrimary Education, Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, School Counselling, Curriculum and Instruction, , Physical Education and Sports Studies, etc. An internship system is well established for students to have academic and educational exchanges with other education institutes and universities and to deepen their understanding on contemporary international education. Graduate degrees in the Faculty has been developed since 1993, leading to the Master of Science degrees in Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, E-Commerce, Mathematics. At present, there are 33 laboratories for teaching and research purposes in various science and engineering fields.
Notes
[1] ^ "No. of Registered Students in UM in 2006/2007". University of Macau. http://www.umac.mo/reg/factsfigures/ year0607/student(1).html. Retrieved on 2007-12-26. [2] ^ "Introduction to the University of Macau". University of Macau. http://www.umac.mo/about_intro.html. Retrieved on 2008-01-05. [3] UM Academic Calendar 2007-2008. University of Macau. 2007. [4] "No. of full-time staff at the university (as at 31/12/2006)". University of Macau. http://www.umac.mo/reg/factsfigures/ year0607/staff(1).html. Retrieved on 2007-12-26. [5] "General information of the University of Macau Library". University of Macau Library. http://library.umac.mo/LIBINFO/ history.html. Retrieved on 2007-12-26.
The library
The University of Macau Library is the largest library in the territory. It is a fivestorey building that has a working space area of 15,000 m² and a seating capacity of approximately 400. The print collection includes 210,000 volumes of monographs, 4,000 periodical titles, and 12,000 volumes of old Chinese editions.[5]
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