The study of architecture
was first introduced to the University in 1951. In 1956, it
established a Department
of Extra-Mural Studies to provide continuing adult education
in response to the demands of a rapidly-changing society.
In 1961 when the University celebrated its golden jubilee
it had more than 2,000 students, four times greater than in
1941.
The Faculty
of Social Sciences was established in 1967, and embraced
a newly-founded Law Department in 1969. In 1982, the Faculty
of Dentistry, based at the Prince Philip Dental Hospital,
was established. It remains the territory's only faculty
producing dental professionals. In 1984, both the School
of Architecture and School of Education became fully-fledged
faculties, and in the same year a separate Law
Faculty was created. The Faculty
of Business and Economics, the tenth and youngest faculty,
was established in 2001.
In 1992, in response to the needs for continuing education,
the Department of Extra-Mural Studies became the School
of Professional and Continuing Education (HKU SPACE).
It is now Hong Kong's largest tertiary-level institution
for continuing education with cumulative enrolment totalling
more than one million students.
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