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University of Macau
China

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Official website: https://www.um.edu.mo/
Tel：853-88228833
Address：Avenida Università Taipa, Macau SAR
The University of Macau is the only international comprehensive public university in Macau. Founded in 1981, it has the unique advantage of multicultural coexistence. Implementing an international modern university management model, 80% of the teaching and research staff come from all over the world, teaching mainly in English, and are committed to cultivating talents with innovative thinking, feelings for home and country, international vision, global competitiveness and global responsibility. Quality Teaching The University of Macau has the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Business Administration, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Technology, the Honors College, as well as the Graduate School and Continuing Education Center. The research institutions include the Chinese Medical Research Institute, the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, the Collaborative Innovation Research Institute, the Microelectronics Research Institute, the Macau Research Center, the Asia-Pacific Institute of Economics and Management, and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. There are currently more than 12,500 students. Undergraduate education implements a "four-in-one" education model that integrates majors, general studies, study and community education. The courses adopt the credit system and college system, and offer about 130 degree courses including bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, covering literature, language, business administration, marketing, accounting, finance, international integrated resort management, science, education, biomedicine, Professional disciplines in different fields such as law, history, economics, psychology, sociology, communication, engineering, computer science, and traditional Chinese medicine. International reputation The University of Macau ranks 201-250 in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, 5th in international development, 38th in Asian universities, 39th in the world's best young universities, and ranked in the Association of Portuguese Universities First. Ranked 322nd in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings. Ten major subject areas: engineering, chemistry, computer science, pharmacology and toxicology, materials science, biology and biochemistry, clinical medicine, psychiatry/psychology, general social sciences, and agricultural sciences entered the basic science indicator database (ESI) among the top 1%. The international University of Macau is an international campus with multicultural integration. It implements an international modern university management model and recruits teaching and research staff from all over the world, with 80% of them coming from all over the world. The international and diversified schooling characteristics attract international students from all over the world, making the campus full of multiculturalism. The University of Macau continues to expand its network with overseas universities to promote academic exchanges, and actively builds a platform for international collaborative research on campus to broaden students' horizons. Currently, it has signed cooperation agreements with more than 250 colleges and universities in more than 30 countries and regions. Students can choose to communicate and study in more than 150 colleges and universities around the world to experience life in different cultures. The University of Macau also provides students with internship opportunities locally and overseas to enhance their future employment competitiveness. The outstanding teaching staff has attracted top academic elites from all over the world and established an international outstanding teaching team, including academicians of the European Academy of Sciences (foreign), academicians of the Royal Academy of Engineering, fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and fellows of the British Institution of Engineering and Technology. Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Academician of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Chairman of the IEEE System, Human-Machine and Intelligent Automation Society, Academician of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, "Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor" of the Ministry of Education, etc. . The University of Macau continues to increase its efforts to introduce high-level talents, create favorable conditions for teaching and research personnel, stimulate their potential, and tackle cutting-edge problems. In addition, the “UM Haojiang Talent Plan” has been launched to cultivate young local scholars and attract high-end talents to stay in Macao for development. The University of Macau, which has a unique college system, adopts a holistic education system based on the residential college system. It uses the college system as a "four-in-one" integrated platform to practice holistic education, which is unique among universities in Macau. At present, 10 colleges have been established, including Cao Guangbiao College, Cheng Yutong College, Zhang Kunlun College, Cai Kaiyou College, Fok Ying Tung Chun Jue College, Lui Che Woo College, Ma Man Kei Lo Pak Sum College, Man Chen Memorial College, Siu Bang College and Stanley Ho East Asia College. The college and the college complement each other and provide a holistic education environment through experiential curriculum planning, striving to cultivate students who are academically successful and have noble morals. College education is committed to improving students' seven competencies: civic responsibility, global competitiveness, knowledge integration, teamwork, service and leadership, cultural participation, and healthy living. Frontier Research The University of Macau adopts the research policy of highlighting characteristics, leveraging advantages, building peaks and strengthening cooperation, and focuses on supporting subject directions that are both unique to Macau, meet the needs of Macau and the country, and conform to the trend of international development. At present, a research strategic layout of "3+3+3+3" that combines science and technology and humanities has been formed, fully supporting three national key laboratories (Chinese medicine quality research, analog and mixed-signal VLSI, and smart city Internet of Things). ), focus on developing three emerging directions (precision medicine, advanced materials, regional oceans), actively promote three interdisciplinary fields (cognitive and brain science, data science, artificial intelligence and robotics), and build three humanities societies Scientific research platform (Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Macau Research Center, Asia-Pacific Institute of Economics and Management). Encourage interdisciplinary cooperation and break down disciplinary barriers, especially the combination of humanities and social sciences and modern technology. At the same time, we will strengthen entrepreneurship and knowledge transfer to enhance the social impact of scientific research results. UM Innovation and Technology Co., Ltd. and the University of Macau’s first industry-university-research demonstration base in the Greater Bay Area, Zhuhai UM Institute of Science and Technology, strongly support the university’s industry-university-research development. The Institute of Science and Technology of UM Zhuhai is a cooperation hub for Zhuhai and Macao to jointly build an international science and technology innovation center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It relies on the research strength of three national key laboratories and institutes of competitive disciplines to integrate into the Greater Bay Area and participate in national scientific research projects. , promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and cultivate emerging industries. Teachers and students have founded more than 30 companies to transform scientific and technological achievements, and the University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center has been approved as a “National Maker Space”, which is the country’s full affirmation of the development of industry, academia and research at the University of Macau. According to the international paper database Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science (WOS), the number of papers published in high-end scientific research journals increased from 77 in 2007 to more than 2,000 in 2020. In 2020, UM papers received more than 42 citations.000 times. Chip research is one of UM’s main directions, aiming to research and develop analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems, and to establish an advanced R&D platform. Chip research won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the number of papers published at international solid-state circuit conferences ranked second in the world, second only to Intel. Research on traditional Chinese medicine is a distinctive research field at UM. It is committed to research on the quality of traditional Chinese medicine and international standards. Its achievements have won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, innovative traditional Chinese medicine products have won the International Invention Gold Medal, and more than 40 Macao Special Science and Technology Awards. Through strong alliances, the University of Macau has established close strategic partnerships with first-class academic institutions at home and abroad, including maintaining close cooperation and contact with Portuguese-speaking and English-speaking countries. Currently, joint talent training projects have been carried out with a number of world-famous universities, including Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh, University of Toronto, University of Porto, University of Lisbon, University of Coimbra, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University, South China University of Technology, etc. . The University of Macau has established joint laboratories with relevant institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in five fields covering brain science, artificial intelligence, spatial information, marine environment and engineering, and precision medicine to conduct joint scientific research. Serving the Macau studies in various fields including literature and history, society, law, education, and business, the University of Macau has always spared no efforts to enhance the cultural and spiritual life of Macau and promote the well-being of local society, providing empirical data and academic analysis as an academic guide for cultural and people's livelihood policies. Base. The "Macao Humanities and Social Sciences Education Base for Primary and Secondary School Students" and the "Macao Science and Technology Practice Base for Primary and Secondary School Students" serve the development of basic education in Macao and serve as a basic platform for cultivating talents in Macao. At the same time, the University of Macau will give full play to its unique advantages and build a platform to help Macau build “one center, one platform and one base” to cultivate Chinese and Portuguese bilingual talents, Chinese history and culture talents, data science talents, innovation and entrepreneurship talents, physics, chemistry and Biological science talents contribute to Macao’s development positioning. In line with the Macau SAR government’s policy policy of “revitalizing Macao through education and developing Macao through talent”, the University of Macau continues to launch new degree courses to cultivate more high-level professional talents for the development of Macao’s diversified industries. In 2020, a public administration training center will be established to help build the talent echelon of the Macao SAR government. Environmental Education With the support of the state and the Macau SAR government, in 2009 the University of Macau was approved to build a new campus on Hengqin Island, Guangdong Province, China, and was authorized to be administered by the Macau SAR in accordance with the laws of the Macau SAR. The new campus held a groundbreaking ceremony on December 20, 2009, hosted by former President Hu Jintao. In 2014, the University of Macau moved into a new campus. The campus covers an area of about one square kilometer. It is connected to Taipa Island in Macau by a river and backed by the green and beautiful Hengqin Mountain. The overall planning emphasizes "people-oriented" and "environmental education" to provide teachers and students with Provide an educational environment with pastoral and simple academic characteristics suitable for academic thinking. The school has a comprehensive range of teaching facilities, including a well-stocked library, university hall, swimming pool, comprehensive gymnasium, archery range, basketball court, rock climbing field, fitness room, etc. Support from all walks of life The University of Macau has received care and support from the country, the Macau SAR government and society, which has enabled the University to achieve rapid development in recent years. Current President Xi Jinping and former President Hu Jintao once visited the University of Macau for guidance and gave important instructions on the development of the university. In 2018, President Xi Jinping even responded to a letter from the University of Macau and other universities, instructing Macau universities to cultivate more talents who love the country and Macau and create more scientific and technological achievements. As the only comprehensive public university in Macau, the University of Macau has the Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region as its Chancellor and Chairman of the University Council, and has attracted the attention of the SAR government. In 2016, it became the first higher education institution in Macau to be awarded the "Education Medal of Merit" by the Macau Special Administrative Region Government. The quality of its education has been widely recognized by the society. University Outlook Today, the University of Macau has entered an unprecedented period of development. It will continue to uphold the spirit of the school motto of “benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, knowledge, and trustworthiness”, continue to improve, optimize, upgrade and innovate, and “based on Macao, jointly build the Bay of Macao” With the purpose of "integrating into the region, integrating into the country, and going global", it has developed into an outstanding university that makes Macao people proud and is recognized by domestic and foreign academic circles.