University of Macau to open new campus

Hub of higher education signals path forward for SAR-mainland integration

The University of Macau, an international public comprehensive university in the Macao Special Administrative Region, plans to establish a new campus in Hengqin of Zhuhai, Guangdong province, according to a senior executive of the university.

The new campus, which will be half the size of the current campus, will offer programs in medicine, new engineering, microelectronics, internet of things, artificial intelligence, robotics and quantitative business analytics, according to Song Yonghua, rector of the University of Macau.

The university also received approval from government authorities to establish an advanced research institute in Hengqin, which will promote industry-academia collaboration between Macao and the Chinese mainland.