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University of Macau
Add: University of Macau, Avenida da
Universidade, Taipa, Macau, China
http://maps.umac.mo/desktop/
The
University of Macau is a public university in Macau. University of
Macau is a public research university located in Macau and the
leading tertiary institution in the city. After more than thirty
years of growth the university moved to the Hengqin new campus in
2014.
Founded in 1981 as the University of East Asia, 18 years before the
transfer of Macau from Portugal to China, the University of Macau is
the Special Administrative Region's (SAR) first modern university
and the largest university in terms of faculty size and programmes
offered. Its predecessor, the University of East Asia (UEA) was a
private university founded by a group of University of Hong Kong
alumni and most students were from Hong Kong, then under British
rule. Prior to the transfer of sovereignty, it was acquired by the
Portuguese administration and reformed as a public university
following Portuguese university structure.