The Review 2005

3 0 T HE R E V I EW 2 0 0 5 3 1 T HE R E V I EW 2 0 0 5 Sources: University Grants Committee (UGC), Research Grants Council (RGC), Joint University Programmes Admission Scheme (JUPAS). ADMISSIONS Indicator Average score in Use of English, 2005 Average score in 2 Advanced Level (AL) and 1 Advanced Supplementary Level (AS) subjects, 2005 Average score in 3 AL subjects, 2005 Percentage of students admitted with an average of Grade A in 3 AL subjects, 2005 Percentage of students admitted with Grade A in Use of English, 2005 Number of applicants for the Early Admissions Scheme for Secondary Six Students (EAS), 2005 Number of EAS applicants placing HKU programmes as their first choice, 2005 Number of EAS applicants admitted with 8 to 10 ‘A’s in HKCEE, 2005 Total number of HKCEE ‘A’s achieved by EAS applicants admitted, 2005 Non-local students (all levels of study) Applications by Mainland students for admission to undergraduate programmes Admission of undergraduate Mainland China students 2005 Exchange students (including Mainland China students) * Source: University Grants Committee. # Provincial or city admission offices, Mainland China. HKU Performance Best score of any UGC-funded institution Best score of any UGC-funded institution Best score of any UGC-funded institution Highest percentage of any UGC-funded institution Highest percentage of any UGC-funded institution Largest number of any participating UGC-funded institution Largest number of any participating UGC-funded institution Largest number of any participating UGC-funded institution Largest number of any participating UGC-funded institution Largest headcount of any UGC-funded institution Largest number of any participating UGC- funded institution Highest average students’ scores in the National Joint Entrance Examination of all students admitted by institutions in Hong Kong Largest headcount of any UGC-funded institution Data (Conversion of Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination grades into scores: A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, E=1, Others=0) 2.80 3.44 3.20 44% 46% 420 (99.76% of all eligible applicants) 213 (51% of all eligible applicants) HKCEE Results 10 ‘A’s: 5 (71%) 9 ‘A’s: 19 (56%) 8 ‘A’s: 44 (59%) 1,276 (47% of HKCEE ‘A’s achieved by all students admitted to EAS of participating institutions) 980 (2004-05) * 4,848 applications # Above cut-off scores of the key universities in each district within Mainland China # 564 incoming (2004) * 1,164 outgoing (2004) OTHER INDICATORS Indicator Scores in Common English Proficiency Assessment Scheme (CEPAS) Career opportunities Percentage of teachers with PhD or higher professional qualifications Library stock and expenditure on library resources HKU Performance Highest scores of any UGC- funded institution Highest percentage of interns and graduate trainees recruited by top Hong Kong employers from any university come from HKU 93% Largest of any UGC-funded institution Data 6.98 (2004-05 final year) * 37% 2.38 million bound volumes (June 30, 2005) and HK$82.3 M (2003-04) Facts and Figures Profile Indicators RESEARCH HKU Performance Highest number of awards and Largest amount of funding of any UGC- funded institution Highest number of awards of any UGC- funded institution Largest amount of any UGC-funded institution (8 out of the past 9 exercises) Highest number of awards of any UGC-funded institution Largest number of awards of any UGC-funded institution Largest number of fellowships of any UGC-funded institution Largest number of members of any UGC-funded institution Highest number of any UGC-funded institution Highest number of any UGC-funded institution Highest number of any Hong Kong institution tracked by ISI 39 in the world out of top 200 universities 29 in the world for arts and humanities 45 in the world for social sciences 48 out of 100 for biomedicine 39 HKU Academic Staff of Reader or Chair Professor grade have been ranked by the ISI among the world’s top 1% of scientists , based on the number of citations recorded for their publications Data 4 projects (total value HK$159.7M) directed or co-directed by HKU investigators out of 8 projects (total value HK$320.8M) funded since 1996 175 winning proposals (2005-06) HK$111M (27%) awarded from total 2005-06 RGC CERG allocation of HK$405M 39 projects funded (26%) out of a total of 150 projects approved since the launch of the scheme in 1999 8 members out of 27 scientists in Hong Kong have received 9 awards since 1989 23 fellowships out of a total of 52 awarded since the launch of the scheme in 1997 10 members 3,587 weighted refereed publications (2002-03) 2.8 per staff member (2002-03) (based on 1,283 wholly UGC-funded academic and research staff in academic departments) 100,202 citations in 14,793 papers published in journals tracked by ISI based on 12 fields (1995-June 2005) November 5, 2004 Indicator University Grants Committee (UGC) Areas of Excellence (AoE) Awards Research Grants Council (RGC) Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) Awards Funding secured in RGC CERG Awards Scheme Awards from Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) under the Innovation and Technology Support Programme (ITSP) National Natural Science Awards Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowships Chinese Academy of Sciences Membership Refereed publications Refereed publications per academic and research staff member Total number of citations on HKU papers published in journals tracked by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Impact of HKU’s publications World Ranking by Times Higher Education Supplement of London