City University of Hong Kong
香港城市大學 | |||||||||||||||
Other name | CityUHK, CityU | ||||||||||||||
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| Motto | Officium et Civitas (Latin) 敬業樂群 (Chinese) | ||||||||||||||
| Type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1 January 1984 (as City Polytechnic of Hong Kong) 1994 (as City University of Hong Kong) | ||||||||||||||
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| Chairman | Lester Garson Huang | ||||||||||||||
| Chancellor | John Lee Ka-chiu | ||||||||||||||
| President | Freddy Boey | ||||||||||||||
| Provost | Chun-Sing Lee | ||||||||||||||
Academic staff | 845 | ||||||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 12,309 | ||||||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 4,929 | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 22°20′11.12″N 114°10′22.76″E / 22.3364222°N 114.1729889°E | ||||||||||||||
| Campus | Urban, 15.6 hectares (39 acres) | ||||||||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||||||||
| Colours | Orange Burgundy | ||||||||||||||
Sporting affiliations | USFHK | ||||||||||||||
| Website | cityu cityu | ||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 香港城市大學 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 香港城市大学 | ||||||||||||||
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The City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) is a public research university in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1984 as the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and formally established as the City University of Hong Kong in 1994.
The university currently has nine main schools offering courses in business, science, engineering, liberal arts and social sciences, law, and veterinary medicine, along with the Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies, CityU Shenzhen Research Institute, and Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study.