Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Overview

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a public research university situated in Hung Hom, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1937 as the Government Trade School and was formally established as the Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1972. In 1994, it gained the full status of a university. PolyU is ranked 3rd in Hong Kong and 6th among the world's top young universities.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University Key Statistics

The university comprises six faculties and two schools, including the Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles, the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Construction and Environment, the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Humanities, and the School of Hotel and Tourism Management. It offers over 160 academic programs at bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate levels.

PolyU has 26,245 students (14,961 undergraduates, 9,758 postgraduates, 611 professional doctorates, and 915 sub-degrees) enrolled in various courses. It employs around 1,182 academic staff, 2,570 administrative staff, and 1,504 research staff. The university's main campus is located in Hung Ho, and the two satellite campuses are in Hung Hom Bay and West Kowloon.

The PolyU Library provides access to a collection of over 0.8 million printed books, 3.6 e-books, 814 printed serials, 172,538 e-journals, 456 e-databases, 107,756 video materials, 318,637 graphic materials, 1,590 cartographic materials, and 1,282 others library assets.

Other Hong Kong Polytechnic University key statistics include its student exchange program benefits with 238 partners extending to Europe, North America, Mainland China, Asia, Oceania, and more.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University Research

The research programs at PolyU are widely supported by government and research funding units, and its focus areas include aerospace, big data, food safety, infrastructure monitoring, health science, sustainability, and smart city.

The university’s top three research fields are computer science, materials science, and artificial intelligence. Its researchers have published in publications like Pattern Recognition, arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Its researchers had been invited to attend/present papers at prestigious conferences such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the European Conference on Computer Vision, and the International Conference on Computer Vision.

The most cited article produced by Hong Kong Polytechnic University research is Benzie and Strain’s “The ferric reducing ability of plasma (FRAP) as a measure of ’antioxidant power’: the FRAP assay,” published in Analytical Biochemistry in 1996. It has received a total of 19,239 citations so far. PolyU’s second most cited paper is Venkatesh et al’s (2012) “Consumer acceptance and use of information technology: extending the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology,” published in Management Information Systems Quarterly, with a total of 9,745 citations to date. The third most cited study is Bensoussan, Alain, et al.’s book “Asymptotic analysis for periodic structures,” published in 1978. It has been cited by 7,755 papers, articles, and other publications.

The research centers and institutes include the Joint Laboratory for Aerosol and Environment, the CAS AMSS-PolyU Joint Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, the Research Institute for Smart Energy, and the Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development.