University of Hong Kong

The University of Hong Kong (abbreviated as HKU) is a public research university in Hong Kong. It is located in Pokfulam, the western half of the central and Western District of Hong Kong Island. The University was established in 1912; In 2018, QS ranked 26th in the world university rankings.

The University of Hong Kong now has ten academic colleges. Since its founding, the university has been teaching in English. As a comprehensive university across academic fields, the University of Hong Kong is good at law, politics, engineering, education, accounting, life sciences and medicine. The school of medicine of the University of Hong Kong is the first research unit in the world to successfully identify and report coronavirus (the pathogen of atypical pneumonia).