The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) held its 92nd Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees today (9 November). Professor John Y. Chai, Chairman of the CUHK Council, presided at the Congregation, while Acting Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Alan K.L. Chan delivered an address. The day\u2019s celebrations began with a formal flag-raising ceremony where the national flag of the People\u2019s Republic of China, the flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the CUHK flag were raised to a rendition of the national anthem.<\/p>\r\n
CUHK confers honorary doctorates on three distinguished people<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Three distinguished people were awarded the degree of Doctor of Social Science, honoris causa<\/em>, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to economic development, scientific and educational progress in Hong Kong and around the world (in alphabetical order of family name<\/em>): Dr Norman Chan Tak-lam, Dr Norman Leung Nai-pang and Professor Helga Nowotny. Professor Nowotny was unable to attend the Congregation. The University conferred the degree on her in absentia<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n Doctoral, master\u2019s and bachelor\u2019s degrees for 2023 awarded<\/strong><\/p>\r\n A total of 620 doctoral degrees, 7,845 master\u2019s degrees and 5,133 bachelor\u2019s degrees were conferred at the Congregation. Among the latter were 649 Bachelors of Arts, 1,175 Bachelors of Business Administration, 1 Bachelor of Business Administration and of Science, 48 Bachelors of Arts and of Education, 49 Bachelors of Education, 627 Bachelors of Engineering, 76 Bachelors of Laws, 25 Bachelors of Chinese Medicine, 220 Bachelors of Medicine and of Surgery, 234 Bachelors of Nursing, 48 Bachelors of Pharmacy, 1,299 Bachelors of Science, and 633 Bachelors of Social Science.<\/p>","show_as_achievement":false,"achievement_category":[],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":[{"photo":166922,"caption":"CUHK holds 92nd Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees."},{"photo":166924,"caption":"CUHK Acting Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Alan K.L. Chan delivers a speech."},{"photo":166925,"caption":"Dr Norman Chan Tak-lam is awarded the degree of Doctor of Social Science, honoris causa."},{"photo":166926,"caption":"Dr Norman Leung Nai-pang is awarded the degree of Doctor of Social Science, honoris causa."},{"photo":166920,"caption":"(From left) Dr Norman Chan Tak-lam , CUHK Acting Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Alan K.L. Chan, Chairman of the CUHK Council Professor John Y. Chai and Dr Norman Leung Nai-pang."},{"photo":166927,"caption":"CUHK holds 92nd Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees."}],"attachments":[{"text":"Speech by Professor Alan Chan","link":"","file":166935},{"text":"Citations of the three honorary graduates","link":"","file":166928}],"video_source":"","video_file":"","add_play_button":false,"video_caption":"","show_migration":false,"original_id":0,"photos_original":null,"attachments_original":null},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/166916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/166916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166941,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/166916\/revisions\/166941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}