The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is one of the world's top leading research universities. Established in 1963, it is the second oldest university in Hong Kong. CUHK is the only university in Hong Kong with a college system. The constituent colleges are: Chung Chi College, United College, New Asia College, Shaw College, Morningside College, C.W. Chu College, S.H. Ho College, Wu Yee Sun College and Lee Woo Sing College.

The main faculties at CUHK are:
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Business Administration
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Social Science
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Law
- The Graduate School

Ratings and Rankings:

- Placed among the World's Top 50 institutions in the Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings, it is ranked 46th in 2009, 42nd in 2008, 38th in 2007 and 50th in 2006.

- Placed among the world's top 100 in a number of academic disciplines in THE-QS Subject Rankings 2009, ranked 58th in Social Sciences, 67th in Arts & Humanities, 68th in Life Sciences & Biomedicine, and 78th in Engineering & Information Technology.

- 2nd in Asia in the QS.com Asian University Rankings 2009.

- 8th in the ranking of Top universities in Asia by Webometrics 2009.

- Ranked 23-41st among the Top 100 institutions in Asia by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2008.

- 9th in the ranking of Top EMBA programs by Whitefield Consulting Worldwide 2008.

- 15th in the ranking of Top 85 Executive MBA (EMBA) programs by the Financial Times 2006.

- 96th globally in the Newsweek ranking of top 100 global universities 2006.

- 44th in the 2004 ranking of World Top 50 Universities in Subdiscipline Financial Economics (The econphd.net rankings).

- 6th among the Top Business Schools in Asia Pacific (International Education Commission 2003).

- No. 1 among the Top Business Schools in East Asia (Asia Inc, Hong Kong, 2003).

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