Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) is a public university in Sé,

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. It was established in 1981.

History

Macao Polytechnic University was formerly known as the Polytechnic Institute of the University of East Asia. Following the splitting of the University of East Asia into three, the Macao Polytechnic University was established in 1991, comprising a number of schools with a long history of public education operation, including the Technical School of the Chinese Affairs Bureau, the Public Administration Training Centre, the Academy of Visual Arts and the Technical School of the Health Bureau. Prior to 1998 the school's central building used to house the Liceu de Macau, a public Portuguese-curriculum secondary school.Clayton, Cathryn H. '' Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau & the Question of Chineseness'' (Volume 324 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483).

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, 9780674035454. On 16 November 2021, the Chief Executive of MSAR, Ho Iat-seng, delivered the Policy Address of the Government of the MSAR for the financial year 2022, announcing that the institute will be renamed the Macao Polytechnic University. On 1 March 2022, the Macao Polytechnic Institute was officially renamed as Macao Polytechnic University.

General information

There are about 6,000 full-time degree programme students at MPU. Every year, MPU offers various types of training programmes with attendance of over 10,000 people at all levels. Moreover, MPU offers

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and Doctorate degree programmes in collaboration with the

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, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria,

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, Beijing Language and Culture University,

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, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan University of Arts,

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, and others.

Faculties and programmes offered

Academic units and research centres

* "One Country Two Systems" Research Centre * Centre for Gaming and Tourism Studies * Centre for Portuguese Studies * Engineering Research Centre of Applied Technology on Machine Translation and Artificial Intelligence * Teaching and Learning Centre * Centre for Continuing Education * Seniors Academy * Peking University Health Science Center - Macao Polytechnic University Nursing Academy * Chinese-Portuguese-English Machine Translation Laboratory * MPU-BELL Centre of English * Language and Culture Research Centre of Macao (in collaboration with Beijing Language and Culture University and Institute of Applied Linguistics, Ministry of Education) * Cultural and Creative Industries Teaching and Research Centre * MPU-UCLA Joint Research Center in Ubiquitous Computing * MPU-Melco Gaming & Entertainment Information Technology Research & Development Centre * MPU-UC Joint Research Laboratory in Advanced Technologies for Smart Cities * Centre of Sino-Western Cultural Studies * Social, Economic and Public Policy Research Centre * Centre for Artificial Intelligence Driven Drug Discovery * International Portuguese Training Centre

Ranking

The university is ranked 901-950th in the 2026

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. The university is also ranked 451-460th in the Asian University Rankings of the 2025

. It is ranked 3rd in the Macau SAR. The university is ranked 301-400th globally in the 2025 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Impact Rankings.

International recognition

Accreditation

On 13 February 2014, the university achieved the rating of "confidence", as a judgement of its Institutional Review conducted by the

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(QAA), UK. The judgement is equivalent to an excellent level, as awarded similarly to

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, etc. On 29 July 2022, the university was accreditedfor International Quality Review (IQR) and Institutional Accreditation (IA) by QAA, met ten standards of the European Higher Education Area (ESG), including two good practices (student research and innovation as well as its comprehensive talent cultivation model) were recognised.

Programme reviews and professional recognition

Most of the programmes offered by the university have gained international recognition from various review and accreditation agencies/

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Other recognition and honors

The university is the only higher education institution in the country to receive the "APQN Quality Awards" by the Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) three times: * Best/Model Internal QA Award (2015 & 2017) * Best Practice of QA during COVID pandemic (2022) The university won the "National Teaching Achievement Award" in 2019 and 2023, making it the first and only higher education institution in Macao to receive this award twice. Chinese Universities Alumni Association (CUAA) released the annual "Evaluation and Study Report of Universities in China". The university was rated as a four-star university from 2017 to 2022 consecutively, ranking among China's high-level universities.

References

External links

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