From 4 May to 25 June 25, the University of Macau (UM) will be accepting applications from mainland students of 31 provinces, cities, and autonomous regions for undergraduate programmes in the 2021/2022 academic year. Eligible students can apply at UM’s official website. With the approval of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, the admission of mainland students to the university will be an independent process instead of being part of the National Unified Admission Scheme for Universities. Eligible students can apply for UM’s undergraduate programmes and those at other mainland universities simultaneously; the application to, or admission by, UM, will not affect the applicants’ admission to mainland universities. 

Applicants must achieve the admission marks of tier-one universities in the 2021 National Unified College Entrance Examination (NUCEE), or the admission marks for special categories, with 110 marks or above in the English subject. Admission will be based on the applicants’ NUCEE results and the admission quotas for different programmes, in accordance with the applicants’ order of preference in major selection. Applicants with outstanding NUCEE results will have the opportunity to receive a full scholarship (with tuition and accommodation fee waived) or a MOP30,000 annual scholarship from the Macao Foundation. In addition, UM offers special scholarships for students from the Greater Bay Area, and a preferential ‘bonus marks’ policy for students from Beijing, Guangdong province, Zhuhai, and Hengqin.

UM is the only international public comprehensive university in Macao, with over 11,000 students, 7,500 of whom are undergraduates. The university has a unique advantage of different cultures coexisting together and implements a modern international governance model, with English as the main medium of instruction. The university recruits faculty members globally, with 80 per cent of them coming from outside Macao. It also has Asia’s largest residential college system to facilitate the implementation of whole person education. It is ranked in the 301-350 bracket in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, with a global ranking of No 6 in International Outlook, No 37 in the THE Asia University Rankings, and No 42 in the THE Young University Rankings. In the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, it is ranked No 367. In the Essential Sciences Indicators (ESI) rankings, it is among the top 1 per cent in ten subjects, namely Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Materials Science, Biology & Biochemistry, Clinical Medicine, Psychiatry/Psychology, Social Sciences, General, and Agricultural Science. On the research front, with the approval of the central government, the university has established three state key laboratories, focused on Chinese medicine quality research, analogue and mixed-signal very-large-scale integrated circuits, and internet of things for smart cities, respectively. The number of papers accepted by the International Solid-State Circuits Conference 2019 ranks the university second in the world in chip research, next only to Intel. Chinese medicine is another distinctive research field at UM. Faculty members in this field are dedicated to Chinese medicine quality research and the development of international standards, and have won numerous awards at local, national, and international levels, including several second prizes of the State Science and Technology Progress Award, gold awards at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, and more than 40 special science and technology awards in Macao. 

In recent years, UM has been expanding its global partnership network and has launched dual or joint degree programmes, including joint post-doctoral programmes, with many of the world’s leading universities, including Imperial College London, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Toronto, the University of Porto, the University of Lisbon, the University of Coimbra, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University, and the South China University of Technology. 

Interested students can apply through UM’s online application system from now until 25 June. For admission and course information, please visit Registry’s webpage for mainland students. For enquiries, please contact the Registry.

For admission enquiries: https://go.um.edu.mo/c393gvxz

The webpage for mainland applicants: https://go.um.edu.mo/s3mszia7

Source: Registry
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