The University of Macau (UM) introduced it is going to establish five new science and technology faculties in a serious restructuring aimed toward boosting its innovation capability and worldwide standing, the establishment introduced at the moment.
The new faculties – Medicine, Information Science and Computing, Engineering, Science, and Design – will formally start operations on August 1, 2026. Student enrolment in science and technology disciplines is predicted to rise to 14,500.
UM presently has five faculties within the humanities and social sciences and two in science and technology. Rector Yonghua Song stated the growth would “significantly broaden the scope and depth of UM’s scientific and technological innovation capacity” and help its objective of changing into a globally recognised college of excellence.
The Faculty of Medicine shall be created by increasing the prevailing Faculty of Health Sciences, with new departments in medical medication, dentistry, and diet sciences. It will enrol about 4,000 college students and provide joint programmes, together with one with the University of Lisbon.
The Faculty of Information Science and Computing, constructed on UM’s present Faculty of Science and Technology, will embrace departments in synthetic intelligence, robotics, microelectronics, and monetary technology, additionally enrolling round 4,000 college students.
The Faculty of Engineering will consolidate present departments and add new ones in supplies, power, chemical and organic engineering, and biomedical engineering, with an analogous enrolment goal.
The Faculty of Science will present foundational help in arithmetic, physics, chemistry, and biology, with about 1,000 college students, whereas the Faculty of Design will deal with integrating synthetic intelligence with design disciplines, enrolling round 1,500.
UM stated the restructuring will optimise sources underneath a twin‑campus mannequin, with the new faculties headquartered within the Cooperation Zone in Hengqin. The college plans to increase worldwide collaborations, appeal to world expertise, and strengthen ties with business to translate analysis into sensible purposes.
SAR authorities are planning to develop a Macao-Hengqin International Education (University) Town, which is able to host new campuses for the University of Macau (UM), Macao Polytechnic University (MPU), and the Macao University of Tourism (UTM).
The city will launch 42 programs and interdisciplinary tutorial analysis, the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, O Lam, introduced on the Legislative Assembly (AL).
In the primary part, the UM, MPU and UTM will transfer into roughly 65,000 sq. meters of services within the Cooperation Zone in Hengqin. This is predicted to occur between August and September this yr.
Song added that the initiative displays UM’s dedication to supporting Macau’s integration with Hengqin and advancing the SAR authorities’s “Education for Macau, Talent for Macau” coverage.