The University of Macau (UM) will establish five science and technology faculties through the restructuring of a part of its current faculties. Student enrolment in science and technology disciplines is anticipated to attain 14,500 sooner or later. Yonghua Song, rector of UM, stated that the initiative will considerably increase the scope and depth of UM’s scientific and technological innovation capability and present robust assist for its improvement into an internationally recognised college of excellence. The five science and technology faculties will formally start operations on 1 August 2026.
Currently, UM has five faculties within the humanities and social sciences and two faculties in science and technology. To additional strengthen its scientific and technological innovation capabilities, and following evaluation by UM’s advisory committee and inside procedures, in addition to approval by the University Council, UM will establish five science and technology faculties: the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Information Science and Computing, the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Science, and the Faculty of Design.
The Faculty of Medicine will probably be established through the combination and enlargement of the prevailing Faculty of Health Sciences. The new faculty goals to develop right into a world-class medical faculty that integrates top-tier medical expertise cultivation, superior medical providers, and modern medical analysis. In addition to the prevailing Department of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (to be renamed the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences), and Department of Public Health and Medical Administration, it would establish the Department of Clinical Medicine, the Department of Medicinal Food and Nutrition Sciences, and the Department of Dentistry. It may even supply a variety {of professional} programmes, together with a joint medical drugs programme with the University of Lisbon in Portugal. The Faculty of Medicine is anticipated to enrol roughly 4,000 college students.
The Faculty of Information Science and Computing will probably be established on the premise of the prevailing Faculty of Science and Technology (FST). Building on the present Department of Computer and Information Science in FST, the brand new faculty will comprise the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Artificial Intelligence, the Department of Microelectronics, the Department of Robotics, the Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, and the Department of Financial Technology and Business Intelligence. With an anticipated enrolment of round 4,000 college students, the faculty will play a number one function in nurturing expertise in chopping‑edge fields resembling synthetic intelligence, microelectronics, monetary technology, and pc science.
The Faculty of Engineering will deliver collectively 4 current departments from FST and will establish new departments, together with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. With an anticipated enrolment of about 4,000 college students, the faculty will assist meet the rising demand for engineering expertise and technological innovation in Macao and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The institution of the Faculty of Science aligns with the strategic wants of the nation and the Macao SAR and will present foundational assist within the fundamental sciences for technological innovation in Macao and nationwide. The faculty will comprise the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Physics, the Department of Chemistry, and the Department of Biological Sciences, with an anticipated enrolment of roughly 1,000 college students.
The new Faculty of Design will deal with the combination of synthetic intelligence and design. It will comprise the Department of Visual Communication Design, the Department of Architecture and Urban Design, and the Department of Industrial Design. The faculty goals to domesticate a brand new technology of design professionals and improve Macao’s worldwide affect in design training and the artistic industries, with an anticipated enrolment of round 1,500 college students.
The faculty restructuring may even promote the optimisation and integration of UM’s sources. With its most important campus and a brand new campus within the Cooperation Zone, UM will function below a ‘dual‑campus’ mannequin, below which the 2 campuses will leverage their respective strengths and assist one another. The new Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Information Science and Computing, Faculty of Engineering, and Faculty of Design will supply programmes throughout each campuses, with their headquarters situated on the campus within the Cooperation Zone. This association will strengthen collaboration between science and technology faculties and business, and facilitate the interpretation of analysis outcomes into sensible purposes. Building on the Faculty of Medicine’s expertise in worldwide joint programmes, UM will increase collaborative programmes with world‑famend universities within the fields of knowledge science, engineering, and design. The college is dedicated to attracting worldwide college students, recruiting excessive‑calibre instructing and analysis expertise, constructing worldwide platforms for scientific and technological trade, internet hosting main worldwide conferences, and supporting the event of educational journals.
According to Song, by strengthening its science and technology disciplines, UM will improve its worldwide competitiveness in chopping‑edge scientific and technological innovation, whereas cultivating and attracting excessive‑calibre, multidisciplinary expertise. The initiative additionally displays the college’s dedication to supporting the built-in improvement of Macao and the Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, selling the appliance of analysis outcomes in each locations, and growing new high quality productive forces in Macao. UM will seize the event alternatives arising from the development of its campus within the Cooperation Zone, actively implement the Macao SAR authorities’s ‘Education for Macao, Talent for Macao’ coverage, and advance the built-in improvement of worldwide increased training, excessive‑high quality analysis innovation, and excessive‑calibre expertise cultivation.