Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is a community research university in Clear Water Bay Peninsula, Hong Kong. Founded in 1991, it is the region's youngest higher learning organization with no precursory subsistence.

The university includes four disciplinary schools, which provide degrees in business and management, engineering, science, and humanities and social science, along with the Interdisciplinary Programs Office, which offers cross-disciplinary programs, and Fok Ying Tung Graduate School/Fok Ying Tung Research Institute, which encourages technology transfer and commercialization. HKUST has been regularly seen as one of the top three higher education organization in Hong Kong.

History

Founded in 1991 under Chapter 1141 of the Laws of Hong Kong (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology regulation), HKUST is one of the eight legislative universities in Hong Kong.  In the late 1980s the Hong Kong Government predicted a strong demand for university graduates to stimulate an economy increasingly based on services. Sir Chung Sze Yuen and the then Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Edward Youde visualized the idea of another university in addition to the pre-existing two universities HKU and CUHK.  Preparation for the "3^rd University", named The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology began in 1986. On the Clear Water Bay Peninsula, construction took place at the Kohima Camp site in Tai Po Tsai. The site was assigned for the construction of a new British Army barracks, but plans for the construction of the barracks were canceled after the Sino- British Joint Declaration was signed in 1984.

Primarily planned to end in 1994, the death of Sir Edward in 1986 led to increased endeavor and permitted UST to open its doors early – in 1991. Quite a few leading scientists and researchers took top positions at the new university in its early years, including physicist  Leroy Chang who came in 1993 as Dean of Science and became Vice-President for Academic Affairs.  Thomas E. Stelson was also a founding member of the management. The venture was condemned for exceeding the budget set forth by the Hong Kong Government and the royal Hong Kong Jockey Club. However, under the fund-raising efforts of its President, Woo Chia-wei, the first students enrolled in October 1991. By 1992, housing and athletic facilities were extended to support about 7,000 students. Several more development projects such as the construction of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Enterprise Centre have been completed since then.  The library extension building Lo Ka Chung Building South Bus Station, Lee Shau Kee Business Building (LSK), Cheng Yu Tung Building (CYT), the Conference Lodge and Undergraduate Halls VIII and IX are the latest add-ons to the campus.

Campus

The university is located at the northern part of Clear Water Bay Peninsulain Sai Kung District, new Territories, Hong Kong, reside in a 60-hectare site overlooking Port Shelter in Tai Po Tsai. Apart from the educational complexes, the campus also possess student halls of residence, indoor and outdoor athletics facilities, the University Center, staff quarters and the President's chalet, making use of the sloped landscape to divide the campus for different uses.

 Reputation and rankings

HKUST had been formerly graded Asia's No.1 by the independent regional QS University Rankings: Asia for three straight years from 2011 to 2013. It's one of the fastest growing institutions as graded #1 and #4 by QS world's under 50 universities and Times 100 under 50 universities respectively in 2014. The THE's World Reputation Rankings of 2015 considered it the second reputable in the territory, while it was third in the HKU Public Opinion Program survey (2012). According to Global Employability University Ranking 2015, the University's graduates have the most employment rate among Greater China, ranked 14th globally.

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University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo shortened as Todai, is a research university situated in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The university has 10 faculties with overall of around 30,000 students among them 2,100 are foreign students. Its 5 college grounds are in Hongo, Komaba, Kashiwa Shirokane and Nakano. It is the initial of Japan's National Seven Universities. It is graded as the top in Asia and 21st in the world according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015. The University of Tokyo is broadly believed to be the most prominent university in Japan.

History

The university was licensed by the Meiji government in 1877 under its present name by combining older government schools for medicine and Western learning. In 1886, it was renamed "the Imperial University, and in 1897, Tokyo Imperial when the Imperial University system was formed. In 1923September, an earthquake and the following fires demolished about 700,000 volumes of the Imperial University Library. The books lost comprise the Hoshino Library a compilation of about 10,000 books. The books were the ex- property of HOshino Hisashi before becoming part of the library of the university and were majorly about Chinese philosophy and history.In 1947, after Japan's conquer in World War II; it re-presumed its original name. With the start of the new university system in 1949, Todai gulp downed up the ex-First Higher School (present's Komaba campus) and the ex Tokyo Higher School, which therefore presumed the duty of teaching first- and second-year undergraduates, while third- and fourth-year students  were taken care by the faculties on Hongo main. Eventhough the university was founded during the Meiji period; it has prior roots in the Astronomy Agency in 1684, Shoheizaka Study in 1797, and the Western Books Translation Agency in 1811. These organisations were government offices founded by Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1867), and played an major role in the importation and conversion of books from Europe.

KIkuchi Dairoku, an significant figure in Japanese education, served as head of Tokyo Imperial University. For the 1964 Summer Olympics, the university organized the running section of the modern pentathlon event. On 2012 January20, Todai proclaimed that it would move the beginning of its educational year from April to September to ally its calendar with the international standard. The modification would be phased in over five years. According to the Japan Times, in February 2012, the university had 1,282 professors, of them, 58 were women. In the fall of 2012 and for the first time, the University of Tokyo initiated two undergraduate programs completely taught in English and stuffed toward international students — Programs in English at Komaba (PEAK) — the International Program on Japan in East Asia and the International Program on Environmental Sciences. 

Organization

Faculties

• Agriculture
• Arts and Sciences
• Economics
• Education
• Engineering
• Law
• Letters
• Medicine
• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Science

Graduate schools

• Agricultural and Life Sciences
• Arts and Sciences
• Economics
• Education
• Engineering
• Frontier Sciences
• Humanities and Sociology
• Information Science and Technology
• Interdisciplinary Information Studies
• Law and Politics
• Mathematical Science
• Medicine
• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Public Policy
• Science

Research institutes

• Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute
• Earthquake Research Institute
• Historiographical Institute
• Institute for Cosmic Ray Research
• Institute for Solid State Physics
• Institute of Industrial Science
• Institute of Medical Science
• Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
• Institute of Oriental Culture
• Institute of Social Science
• Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology

    The University's School of Science and the Earthquake Research Institute are both represented on the national Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction. 

Ranking

In 2012, Academic Ranking of World Universities graded the University of Tokyo 1st in Asia and 20th in the world.  In 2013,Times Higher Education World University Rankings graded the University of Tokyo 27th in the world and in 20131st in the Asia University ranking. Times Higher Education World University Rankings graded the institution 23rd in the world in 2015. QS World University Rankings in 2011 graded the University of Tokyo 25th in the world (in 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings parted ways to produce separate rankings). In the 2011 QS Asian University Rankings, which uses a different methodology, the University of Tokyo came 4^th. Global University Ranking graded the University of Tokyo 3rd in the world and 1st in Asia. Human Resources and Labor Review, a human competitiveness index & analysis published in Chasecareer Network, graded the university 21st internationally and 1st in Asia in 2010. Mines Paris Tech: Professional Ranking World Universities graded the University of Tokyo 2nd in the world on the basis of the number of alumni listed among CEOs in the 500 largest worldwide companies. Nature Publishing Index (2011) graded the University of Tokyo 5th in the world in 2011.

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Technische Universität Berlin/ Technical University of Berlin

The Technische Universität Berlin also called as TU Berlin for short and illegitimately as the Technical University of Berlin or Berlin Institute of Technology, is a research university situated in Berlin, Germany and one of the huge and most prominent research and education institutions in Germany. The university was established in 1879. It has the highest amount of foreign students in Germany, approximately 5,598 students, with 20.9% in the summer semester of 2007. The university alumni and professor list comprises ten Nobel Prize winners, two National Medal of Science laureates and National Academies elections. The TU Berlin is a associate of TU9, an integrated society of the largest and highly notable German institutes of technology and of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network, which permits for student swapping between leading European engineering schools. It is also member of Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Educational and Research.  From 2013, TU Berlin is leveled 41st (2012: 45th) in the world in the field of Engineering & Technology and first in Germany (46th globally) in Mathematics as per QS World University Rankings. The university is well-known for its top ranked engineering program, mainly in mechanical engineering and engineering management.

History

The Technische Hochschule Berlin was founded on 1879 April 1 through the incorporation of the Berlin College of Civil Engineering(Bauakademie) and the Royal College for Vocational Studies (Königliche Gewerbeakademie), two autonomous Prussian launched colleges founded in 1799 and 1821 respectively. Both colleges were combined by the Prussian government to begin the "Royal Polytechnic University in Charlottenburg", named after the region of Charlotenburg just outer Berlin where the Polytechnic was situated. Due to the attempts by professor Alois Riedler and Adolf Slaby, chairman of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) and the Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE), in 1899 the "Royal Technical College" was the initial Technische Hochshule in Germany that honored a doctorate, as well as the Diploma as regular degree for graduates. In 1916 the ancient Bergakademie Berlin, the Prussian mining academy built by the geologist Carl Abraham Gerhard in 1770 at the will of King Frederick the Great, was incorporated into the "Polytechnic University in Berlin". The mining college had been the patronage of the Frederick William University (the existing Humboldt University of Berlin) for several decades, before it was protracted again in 1860. In 1920 after Charlottenburg's assimilation into Greater Berlin and Germany being turned into a Republic, the college finally called the "Polytechnic University in Berlin". In 1927 the department of Geodesy of the "Agricultural College of Berlin" was integrated into the "Berlin Polytechnic". During the 1930s, the growth and extension of the campus along the "East-West axis" were components of the Nazi plans of a  Welthaupstadt Germania, comprising a new faculty of defense technology under General Karl Becker, built as part of greater Hochschulstadt university grounds in the western Grunewald forest. The shell building lingered incomplete after the outburst of World War II and Becker's suicide in 1940, it is today sheltered by the major Teufelsberg dumping. The north section of the main construction of the university was demolished during a bombing raid in November 1943.

Because of the street fighting at the conclusion of the Second World War, the functions at the "Polytechnic University in Berlin" were deferred as of April, 20th 1945. Planning for the re-launching of the school began on June, 2nd 1945, after the acting rector ship led by Gustav Ludwig Hertz and Max Volmer was assigned. As both Hertz and Volmer stayed in exile in the Soviet Union for some time to come, the college was not re-installed until April, 9th 1946, now renamed as "Technische Universität Berlin". In broad-spectrum, the name is not converted into other languages. The English term Berlin Institute of Technology is a semi-official conversion which was established as conciliation in 2007. Nonetheless, the spontaneous translation Technical University of Berlin remains the most common (although not certified) name for the university in English, with the possible exemption of the native German portrayal (and of course the short form of TU Berlin).

Campus

The TU Berlin plasters ca. 600,000 m², allocated over various locations in Berlin. The main campus is situated in the region of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. The seven schools of the university have some 28,200 students joined in more than 50 subjects (January, 2009). El Gouna campus: Technische Universität Berlin has established a satellite campus in Egypt to act as a scientific and academic field office. The nonprofit public-private partnership (PPP) has ambition to provide services of Technische Universität Berlin at the campus in El Gouna on the Red Sea.

Organization

The TU Berlin has included following schools from 4 April 2005:

1.      Economics and Management

2.      Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

3.      Humanities

4.      Mathematics and Natural Sciences

5.      Mechanical Engineering and Transport Systems (including Aerospace engineering, Automotive engineering, naval and ocean engineering, and the planning and operation of transport systems)

6.      Process Sciences and Engineering

7.      Planning – Building – Environment (merge of former schools of "Civil Engineering and Applied Geosciences" and "Architecture – Environment – Society")

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National University of Singapore

The National University of Singapore abbr. NUS is third largest public and sovereign universities in Singapore. Established in 1905, it is the age-old organization of higher learning in Singapore, as well as the biggest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum proposed. NUS is a research-intensive, broad university with an capitalist aspect.NUS is regularly graded as one of Asia's top universities by both UK ranking systems, the QS World University Ranking and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. According to the newest 2015 QS World University Rankings, NUS is graded 12th in the world and maintained its position as 1st in Asia. NUS also gained well in the 2015-16 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, coming 1st in Asia and 26th in the world. Unusually, the ARWU ranking system declared by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy that determines universities educational achievements and research performance regularly places NUS in the range of 100/150 worldwide and first in Singapore. In addition, 2014's U.S News and World Report, Best Global Universities Rankings places NUS at 55th in the world. In 2015, The Economist graded NUS Business School, 87th globally and 2nd in Singapore. NUS's primary campus is situated in southwest Singapore at Kent Ridge, with an area of about 1.83 km² (0.71 sq mi). The Bukit Timah campus accommodate the Faculty of Law, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and research institutes, whereas the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore is located at the Outram campus.

History

In 1904 September, Tan Jiak Kim led a group of representatives of the Chinese and other non-European communities, and appealed the Governor of the Straits Settlements, sir John Anderson, to launch a medical school in Singapore. Tan the first president of the Straits Chinese British Association, raised 87,077 Straits dollars, , of which the highest amount of $12,000 came from himself. On 1905 July3, the medical school was established and called as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School. In 1912, the medical school obtained an donation of $120,000 from the King Edward VII Memorial Fund, initiated by Lim Boon Keng. Later on 1913 November18, the school was renamed to the King Edward VII Medical School. In 1921, it was again renamed the King Edward VII College of Medicine to replicate its educational status. In 1928, Raffles College was launched to endorse arts and social sciences at tertiary level for Malayan students.

Establishment of the university

Two decades after, Raffles College was combined with the King Edward VII College of Medicine to establish the University of Malaya on 1949 October 8. The two institutions were combined to provide for the higher education required by the Federation of Malaya and Singapore. The development of UM was very fast during the first decade of its foundation and outcome in the set up of two autonomous divisions in 1959, one situated in Singapore and the other in Kuala Lumpur. In 1960, the regimes of Federation of Malaya and Singapore showed their wish to alter the status of the divisions into that of a national university. Legislation was passed in 1961 launching the former Kuala Lumpur division as the University of Malaya while the Singapore division changed the name,  the University of Singapore on 1962 January 1.

Present form

In 1980, the National University of Singapore was established with the combination of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University. It was due to the government's desire to group the two institutions' sources into a single, stronger entity, and promote English as Singapore's only main language. The primary apex of Nanyang University with three intertwined rings was integrated into the new coat-of-arms of NUS. NUS started its entrepreneurial education accomplishments in the 1980s, with the setting up of the Centre for Management of Innovation and Techno-entrepreneurship in 1988. In 2001, the name was changed as the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre (NEC), and became a division of NUS Enterprise. At present NEC is led by Professor Wong Poh Kam and its activities are prepared into 4 areas, comprising a business incubator, pragmatic education, pragmatic development, and pragmatic research. Right now, the National University of Singapore has 16 faculties and schools across three campus localities in Singapore – Kent Ridge, Bukit Timah and Outram – and offers a broad-based curriculum emphasized by multi-disciplinary courses and cross-faculty enrichment.

Education

NUS have a semester-based modular system for performing courses. It implements features of the British system, such as small group teaching and the American system. Students may relocate between courses within their first two semesters, enroll in cross-faculty sections or take up optional from different faculties (compulsory for most degrees). Other cross-disciplinary schemes study program consists of double-degree undergraduate degrees in Arts & Social Sciences and Engineering; Arts & Social Sciences and Law; Business and Engineering; and Business and Law. NUS have 16 faculties and schools, including a Music Conservatory. Right now, it has seven overseas colleges at major entrepreneurial centers in Shanghai and Beijing (China), Israel, India, Stockholm (Sweden), Silicon Valley and Bio Valley (US).

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