Strategic Plan 2021-2028

HKUST has been successful in drawing top minds from around the world. Our new Guangzhou campus, i.e. HKUST (Guangzhou), sets to provide exciting new reach and opportunities for education, research, and knowledge transfer. We are prepared to extend our global reservoir of minds and abilities by looking beyond conventional academic disciplines and being open to the recruitment and nurturing of more diverse areas of strength among students, faculty and staff. Recruiting the best talents effectively and competitively We are looking for and developing students for pure academic and broad-based talents. This will be achieved by exible/targeted admissions, scholarship schemes, and incentives that can attract quality students with diverse talents and backgrounds. We aim at rolling out a comprehensive outreach campaign, emphasizing the HKUST experience and using a mix of engagement means applicable to suit the constantly changing environment or the “new normal”. Such engagement will involve connecting with prospective students, parents, teachers and schools by combining physical channels with technologies and online communication platforms. Given the key role our faculty members play in both our education and research endeavors, we will be proactive and open in identifying and reaching out to leading and promising candidates from around the world, targeting to attract scholars in elds within and beyond HKUST’s traditional areas of strength or disciplinary areas to drive forward evolving opportunities at both our Clear Water Bay and Guangzhou campuses and our cross-disciplinary activities. We also fully recognize the essential role of our staff in the ef cient and effective day-to-day administration, operations, including health and safety, and campus management, and the need to recruit and retain top staff for the myriad posts this encompasses. HKUST will position itself as the “employer of choice”, ensur ing an al l-around support ive and high performance culture with corresponding reward and recognition. Nurturing talents to achieve full potential Recruitment is only the start of a life-changing journey. For students to fully bene t from their HKUST experience, we wi l l foster and develop academic capacity, social skills, entrepreneurial spirit, community service, and personal development opportunities so that each can nd their own space, unlock their own interests and potent ial , and make thei r relat ionship wi th the Universi ty truly transformational and lifelong. Five Strategic Objectives 1 12 A University of Talents