Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU; as Open University of Hong Kong from 1997 to 2021) is a public university in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Former names | The Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong (OLI) The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) | ||||||||||||
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| Motto | 勵學致遠 敬慎日新 (Chinese) Transcendence through Erudition and Renewal (English) | ||||||||||||
| Type | Public, self-financing | ||||||||||||
| Established | May 1989 (as The Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong) May 1997 (granted full university status) | ||||||||||||
| Chancellor | John Lee Ka-chiu (as Chief Executive of Hong Kong) | ||||||||||||
| President | Paul Lam Kwan-sing | ||||||||||||
| Vice-president | Prof. Reggie Kwan Ching-ping (Provost) Prof. Lui Yu-hon (Resources & Development) Prof. Ricky Kwok Yu-kwong (Students & Support) | ||||||||||||
| Students | 19,468 (2021) | ||||||||||||
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| Campus | Urban | ||||||||||||
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| Affiliations | International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), JUPAS, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Universities Alliance, Jiangsu-Hong Kong-Macau Universities Alliance, Federation for Self-financing Tertiary Education | ||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 香港都會大學 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 香港都会大学 | ||||||||||||
| Cantonese Yale | Hēunggóng Dōuwúi Daaihhohk | ||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 香港公開大學 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 香港公开大学 | ||||||||||||
| Cantonese Yale | Hēunggóng Gūnghōi Daaihhohk | ||||||||||||
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| Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 香港公開進修學院 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 香港公开进修学院 | ||||||||||||
| Cantonese Yale | Hēung góng gūng hōi jeun sāu hohk yún | ||||||||||||
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Established as the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong by the Hong Kong government in 1989, HKMU now consists of five schools, namely the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration, School of Education and Languages, School of Nursing and Health Studies, and the School of Science and Technology.
HKMU is the only self-financing university set up by the government. It began as a distance-learning-based university, but is now in effect two universities in one. It has started to offer full-time programmes since 2001 and has participated in Hong Kong's centralised joint university admission system (JUPAS) since 2007. Currently, it has a headcount of more than 9,600 students on its full-time face-to-face programmes, occupying one-sixth of all undergraduate students in Hong Kong. The current president is Professor Lam Kwan Sing.