The birth of the University of Macao can be traced back to March 1981. Atthat time, Ricci Island West Limited obtained the land lease from the Macaogovernment and founded the first university in Macao, the private East AsianUniversity, which is also the predecessor of the University of Macao. Theestablishment of the University of East Asia marks the beginning of Macao'smodern higher education.
In the early years of the University of East Asia, most of its studentscame from Hong Kong. Later, in order to meet the needs of human resources duringthe transition period of Macao's regime transfer, in 1988, the Macao Foundationacquired and reorganized the University of East Asia, established the school ofArts, School of business administration, School of social and human sciences andSchool of science and technology, changed the three-year curriculum to four-yearcurriculum, and then established the school of law and School of education.English is still the main teaching language.
In 1991, the constitution of the new university was formulated, and theUniversity of East Asia was officially renamed as the public university ofMacao, with the goal of cultivating talents in Macao. After the reorganizationof the University, the number of students has risen sharply, from hundreds atthe beginning to more than 5000 at present, and the proportion of local studentsin Macao has increased from 39% when the University was founded to 90% atpresent.
After more than 20 years of transformation, the University of Macau hasestablished a complete teaching system, including the school of businessadministration, the school of social and Human Sciences, the school of scienceand technology, the school of law, the school of education, the preparatorycourse center, and the off campus courses and special programs center. Confersbachelor's degree, master's degree, doctor's degree and junior college degree.The University of Macau has a faculty of more than 350 people with rich teachingand professional experience. Some of them graduated from famous universities inCanada, China, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Chinese Taiwan, Britain and the United States.They have published hundreds of papers in a number of international seminars andinternational academic journals, and three scientific research achievements havebeen patented. At present, the University of Macau has participated in andcompleted ten scientific research projects funded by the National NaturalScience Foundation of China and four Eureka research and development projectsorganized by the European Union.
There are more than 1000 computers and more than 100 workstations andservers with powerful computing power on the campus of the University of Macau,and the largest wireless campus network in Macao has been established. More than40 laboratories are set up to meet the needs of teaching and research. TheInternational Library of the University of Macau is committed to the developmentof electronization. Although there are only more than 180000 books in itscollection, the number of electronic materials is increasing. The library hasthe largest collection of international organizations in Southeast Asia.
The University of Macau is a member of many international universityorganizations, such as the International Association of universities, theInternational Association of university presidents, the Asia Pacific UniversityAssociation, etc. it started international exchanges in 1991. At present, it hassigned academic cooperation or exchange student agreements with more than 90universities in more than 20 countries and regions, including China, Europe,Japan, New Zealand and the United States. More than 100 foreign exchangestudents come to the university every year . In addition to recruiting studentsfrom Hong Kong, Macao and Chinese Taiwan, the university has been able to recruitstudents from 14 provinces and cities in mainland China since 20__. As thepioneer of higher education in Macao, the University of Macao aims at providinghigh-quality higher education in Macao. In response to the requirements ofsocial development in the future, the university will expand teaching buildings,laboratories, offices, research centers, student activity centers anddormitories, and set up courses to meet the needs of social development.
The University of Macau attaches equal importance to teaching andscientific research. In the future, it will continue to make progress towardsthese two goals and be fully prepared to meet all challenges, so as to make theUniversity of Macau an important institution of higher learning withinternational level in the region.
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