After receiving approval from the Ministry of Education in June, UIC will officially offer Postgraduate Programmes, including Taught Master Programmes in addition to Research Postgraduate Programmes that lead to MPhil or PhD degrees. Research Postgraduate Programmes will be first to be offered.
UIC is the first full-scale co-operation in higher education between the Mainland and Hong Kong, therefore it incorporates an international and Hong Kong educational model. There will be two types of postgraduate programmes; taught and research. Research postgraduate programmes will be offered in the fields of Probability and Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science and Technology, Accounting and Business Management, Economics, and Communication. Accounting, Communication, as well as Social work and Social Administration will be offered as Taught Master programmes.
A PhD programme will take three years; an MPhil will take two years while a Taught Master Programme will take one year. Degree certificates from the Hong Kong Baptist University will be awarded upon completion.
UIC President, Professor Ng Ching-fai, said that since the founding of UIC, it has been committed and deeply focus on its undergraduate programmes. During UIC’s first ten years it has formed an educational model that combines liberal arts with its own characteristics. The results have been excellent as well as being recognized within the community. For the next decade, UIC wants to gradually implement postgraduate education to aid UIC’s own development and expansion into research.
Information about enrollment for Postgraduate Programmes will be announced in the near future.
Editor: Samuel Burgess (MPRO)
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