Centennial milestone for HKU

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Friday, September 23, 2011

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The launch of the four-year undergraduate courses next year will not only herald a new era in education at the city's oldest university, it will also coincide with the completion of a major expansion project to mark its 100-year history.

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is currently ranked number one in Asia, by both the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings. Centennial Campus, adjacent to HKU's main campus to the west, promises to offer a learning environment that is truly fit for a world-class university in the 21st century. Major features of the facility - whose construction is in full swing - will include a learning commons, university piazza, flexible classrooms, information and communications technology facilities, lecture theatres and state-of-the-art amenities, as well as a new entrance for HKU linked to the MTR's West Island