The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) is a self-financing university in Hong Kong located in

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. It was founded as Hang Seng Management College in 2010 by the

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and was granted university title in 2018.

History

Hang Seng Management College (HSMC) was founded in 2010 by the

, in response to Chief Executive

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's statement in his 2009 policy address that the self-financing higher education sector had room for expansion and was an important component of education services. In May 2010, the college was registered as an 'Approved Post Secondary College', and was approved to award degrees by the

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. In September 2010, the college began to offer its first three bachelor's degree with honours programmes, together with associate and pre-associate degree programmes originally offered by HSSC. The inauguration ceremony of the college was held on 28 January 2011. In June 2011, the college announced the foundation of the School of Communication. Professor Scarlet Cho was the first dean of the school. Starting from year 2011/12, the college stopped offering the Pre-associate Degree in Business Administrations programme. In November and December 2013, HSMC obtained accreditation from the

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for the following five programmes and was approved by the

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to offer degree programmes. *Bachelor of Business Administration in Financial Analysis (Honours) *Bachelor of Management Science and Information Management (Honours) *Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) in Corporate Governance *Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) in Management *Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Data Science and Business Intelligence On 30 October 2018, the

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-in-

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approved the retitling of Hang Seng Management College into a university under Section 8(1) of the ''Post Secondary Colleges Ordinance'', following an institutional review by the HKCAAVQ. The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong would be the city's 11th degree-awarding institution classified as a university, and its second private university after the

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Acquiring University Status

The Chief Executive in Council approved the university status of Hang Seng Management College (HSMC) on 30 October 2018. The HSMC is the first self-financing post-secondary education institution to acquire a university title since the publication of the revised roadmap of criteria for acquiring university title for post-secondary colleges registered under the Ordinance in 2015.

Academics

Schools and Departments

The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong consists of five schools. ;School of Business :Department of Accountancy
Department of Economics and Finance
:Department of Management :Department of Marketing ;School of Communication ;School of Decision Sciences :Department of Computing :Department of Mathematics and Statistics :Department of Supply Chain and Information Management ;School of Humanities and Social Science :Department of Chinese :Department of English :Department of Social Science ;School of Translation

Curriculum and Programmes

Undergraduate Programmes
BBA (Honours) Economics
* Actuarial Studies and Insurance
Applied Computing
* Asian Studies * Business Administration (For Senior-Year Entry Only) * Finance and Banking * Global Business Management * Marketing * Professional Accountancy * Cultural and Creative Industries * Chinese * Convergent Media and Communication Technology * Corporate Governance and Compliance * Data Science and Business Intelligence * English * Financial Analysis * Human Resource Management * Journalism and Communication Concentrations in – Business Journalism – Corporate Communication * Management * Management Science and Information Management * Supply Chain Management * Translation with Business Postgraduate Programmes * Master of Arts in Strategic Communication * Master of Arts in Translation (Business and Legal) * Master of Arts in Translation (Computer-aided Translation)
Master of Science in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
*Master of Science in Entrepreneurial Management * Master of Science in Global Supply Chain Management

Key Academic and Administrative Officers

References

External links

The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong Official Page
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