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Lingnan University (Hong Kong)

Lingnan University
嶺南大學
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Motto 作育英才,服務社會 (Education for Service)
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)
Chancellor Chief Executive of Hong Kong
(Current officeholder: Leung Chun-ying)
President Leonard K Cheng
Vice-president Professor 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.ln.edu.hk
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Lingnan University
Traditional Chinese 嶺南大學
Simplified Chinese 岭南大学

Lingnan University (LN/ LU) (Chinese: 嶺南大學; Cantonese Yale: Ling Nam Tai Hok, 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 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.


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