Established in 1991, the School of Humanities and Social
Science has over 50 professorial faculty in 12 disciplines
who focus primarily on China in comparative perspective,
as embodied in our new undergraduate major in Global
Chinese Studies: Humanities and Social Science, to be launched in 2011. The Division
of Humanities includes faculty in anthropology, arts,
history, linguistics, literature and philosophy; and
the Division of Social Science includes faculty in economics,
geography, political science, psychology and sociology as well as Science, Technology & Society (STS).
The
influential, peer-reviewed 2009 Times Higher Education Supplement World
University Ranking has placed our School 16th in Asia and 69th
in the World in Social Science and 47th in Asia in Humanities. The
2008 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of
World Universities, based more on research performance
and academic achievement, ranked the HKUST Division of
Social Science first in Greater China. The last UGC Research
Assessment Exercise in 2006 ranked HKUST first in Hong
Kong in Social Science and second in Hong Kong in Humanities.
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