Lingnan College
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| Motto | 作育英才，服務社會 (Education for Service) |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1888 (as Canton Christian College in Guangzhou) 1967 (as Lingnan School in Hong Kong) 1978 (as Lingnan College) 1999 (granted full university status) |
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Chief Executive of Hong Kong (Current officeholder: Carrie Lam) |
| President | Leonard K Cheng |
| Vice-president | Ka Ho Mok |
| Dean | Yifeng Sun (Arts) Liming Liu (Business) Wei Xiangdong (Social Sciences) |
| Students | 3,043 (2014–2015) |
| Location | Tuen Mun, Hong Kong |
| Colours | Red and Grey |
| Affiliations | ASAIHL, ACUCA, GLAA |
| Website | www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 嶺南大學 | ||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 岭南大学 | ||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 嶺南學院 | ||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lǐngnán Dàxué |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Líhng nàahm daaih hohk |
| Jyutping | Ling5 naam4 daai6 hok6 |
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Líhng nàahm hohk yuhn |
| Jyutping | Ling5 naam4 hok6 jyun6 |
Lingnan University (LN/LU) (Chinese: 嶺南大學), formerly called Lingnan College (Chinese: 嶺南學院), is the only public liberal arts university in Hong Kong. It aims to provide students with an education in the liberal arts tradition and has joined the Global Liberal Arts Alliance since 2012. Lingnan University became the first university in Hong Kong to accomplish the goal of providing 4-year full residence for all undergraduates and currently, 80% Lingnan students are able to go on exchange for a term during their undergraduate study.
In 2015, Lingnan University was selected as one of the "Top 10 Asian Liberal Arts Colleges" by Forbes.
Lingnan University has 3 faculties, 16 departments and 19 undergraduate degree programmes of a broad range of disciplines in humanities, social sciences and business administrations. All undergraduates are required to take 33 credits of Core Curriculum courses, 18 credits of Chinese and English language courses, 48 credits of major courses and 21 credits of free elective courses. Lingnan also offers a great variety of taught masters, research masters and PhD programmes, and there are over 3,000 students in total studying in the small liberal arts university.
At Lingnan University, liberal arts education is achieved through the following ：
The 2014 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) published by University Grants Committee in Hong Kong shows that:
LU's overall success rate of 36.1% ranks second among the institutions and is above the sector-wide 34.9%.
LU's success rate of 71.4% is the highest among the institutions while the sector average is 39.9%.
Lingnan University was founded as Canton Christian College in Guangzhou, China as a Non-Denominational Christian university by the American Presbyterians (North) Council in 1889.
The school changed location several times over the years. In 1900, the school was relocated to Macau due to the Boxer Rebellion. The school moved back to Guangzhou and built a permanent campus at the Haizhu District in 1904.
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