University of Hong Kong

The University was founded in 1911 on the basis of the former Medical College, established by the London Missionary Society a little earlier, in 1887. Later it was transformed into a faculty.

The then governor of Hong Kong felt the need to establish a university because of competition with other powers opening their universities in China. Prussia opened the University of Tonji in Shanghai.

Initially, to this day, the university focuses on the humanities, although medical, engineering and art faculties were opened. Since the second half of the 1920s, attention has been paid to Oriental studies. During the Japanese occupation, the university did not function. After the Second World War, the staff of the university opened a second wind, several new faculties were founded: legal, social sciences, economics and business.

The main campus covers an area of 160,000 m2 and is one of the few surviving examples of British colonial architecture in Hong Kong. In addition to several buildings, the university includes an agricultural research center and the Institute of Marine Sciences on the island of Hong Kong.