Lee Woo Sing College is one of the

constituent colleges A collegiate university is a university where functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges. Historically, the first collegiate university was the University of Paris and its first college was the Col ...

of the

Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public university, public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. Established in 1963 as a federation of three university college, collegesChung Chi College, New Asia Coll ...

, a public university in

New Territories The New Territories (N.T., Traditional Chinese characters, Chinese: ) is one of the three areas of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of H ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

. The college was founded by CUHK's university council in 2007 and admitted its first class of students in 2011. The naming of the college is made possible by a HK$150 million donation and is named after entrepreneur Lee Woo Sing.

Site

It is located to the northwest of the existing United College.

Facilities

There are two buildings, North Block and Dorothy and Ti-Hua KOO Building (South Block). Facilities include a well equipped gym/fitness room, table tennis room, BBQ area, piano room, band room, cookery demonstration room, seminar rooms and multi-purpose theatres. The Catering Centre includes a food hall (WS Pavilion), a Shanghainese Restaurant (The Harmony) and a coffee shop (Café Tolo).

System

The arrangement will be similar to that of the four existing colleges in

The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public university, public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. Established in 1963 as a federation of three university college, collegesChung Chi College, New Asia Coll ...

, i.e. students can be either residents or non-residents. It is estimated that it will accommodate 600 of each.

References

External links

Lee Woo Sing College

Official College Facebook Page: Lee Woo Sing College CUHK 和聲書院
{{HongKong-university-stub Chinese University of Hong Kong