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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.