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• The Faculty currently offers 10 taught postgraduate programmes in 2020-21. • The Faculty admitted 236 Research Postgraduate (RPg) students in 2020-21. Eleven of our new PhD students have been awarded Hong Kong PhD Fellowships by the Research Grants Council (RGC), 17 have been awarded the HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship, and 16 have been awarded University Postgraduate Fellowships. • Ms Chong Pit-shan 䓹焗棁 (Mphil, School of Biomedical Sciences) and Dr Derek Lee 勛䳓⤧ (PhD, Department of Pathology) won the Li Ka Shing Prizes, and Dr Li Xinran 勛妇搭 (PhD, School of Biomedical Sciences) won the Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student Award. • Eight postgraduate students were awarded other prizes in 2020, including the Dr KP Stephen Chang Gold Medal for PhD students, KAN Shin Yu Chinese Medicine Postgraduate Research Prizes, Sir Patrick Manson Gold Medal for MD students, Chan To Haan Prize for Research Postgraduate Students in Pathology, Professor Anthony Hedley Prize for Master of Public Health, BL Wong Memorial Prize in Nursing Studies, the Lau Wing Kai Memorial Prizes in Nursing Studies and the Best Evidence Based Practice Dissertation/Clinical Research Project Award for Master of Nursing 2019-2020. Figures Honorary Academic Staff 2599 Undergraduate Students 3026 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Total Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery 305 269 187 261 229 224 1475 Bachelor of Nursing 201 196 205 224 207 - 1033 Bachelor of Chinese Medicine 22 25 24 21 21 26 139 Bachelor of Pharmacy 37 31 14 30 - - 112 Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences 59 62 58 42 - - 221 Bachelor of Science (Exercise and Health) - - - - 3 1 4 Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Global Health and Development 21 21 - - - - 42 Undergraduate Programmes (full-time) Postgraduate Education ^ As of December, 2020 The Faculty in 2020 ^ Postgraduate Students 1681 Professoriate Staff 340 4