Great News! ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2021 Announced CityU Macau’s Hospitality & Tourism Management Programs Moves up Two Places and Ranked 52 on
ShanghaiRanking (www.shanghairanking.cn), a global top 4 ranking institution, published the “ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2021” on 26 May 2021. The City University of Macau (CityU Macau) went up two places and ranked 52 globally in the Hospitality & Tourism Management category, making it among the top 20% of those listed.
Currently, the most well-recognized world university rankings include ARWU World University Rankings (ShanghaiRanking), QS World University Rankings, Times World University Rankings and U.S. News World University Rankings. These top four rankings reflect to a large extent the quality and standard of higher education institutions, as well as the trust and expectations of students, scholars, industries and governments around the world for the schools listed on the rankings. The rankings cover 54 mainstream subjects of the five major categories of natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical science and the social sciences. More than 4,000 universities around the world have participated in the rankings and more than 1,800 universities from 93 countries and regions are listed on ranking by academic subjects.
The Faculty of International Tourism and Management of CityU Macau places emphasis on integration of industry and academia, strives to promote international cooperation, improve program design and research development and accentuate program features. All the undergraduate, Master’s and PhD programs the Faculty offers have obtained World Tourism Organization TedQual certification. In line with the mission of “promoting innovative teaching and scientific research, cultivating high-quality tourism talents, and fostering social harmony and prosperity”, the Faculty has built an international academic team to provide strong intellectual support for cultivation of local young talent. It also seeks to cater for developments needs of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, keep abreast of international academic updates, adopt an output orientation that helps enhance cultivation of high end talent and advocate teacher and student cooperation in research “led by industry issues”. In recent years, the Faculty is committed to contributing towards the regional strategy of developing Macao into a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure. Its teachers and students have published more than 100 high-level academic papers in international authoritative journals, making significant achievement in the exploration of industry-university-research integration in tourism studies strongly advocated by the Macao SAR government.
In response to the development trends of Macao and the international tourism industry and their demand for high-quality talents, the Faculty makes continuous efforts to innovates talent cultivation models, integrate academic and industry resources at home and abroad and provides students with different levels of practical learning, cross-cultural exchanges and internship opportunities. In the future, the Faculty of International Tourism and Management of CityU Macau will continue to seek breakthroughs through innovation, constantly improve its students’ competitiveness at international employment market and its academic staff’s international academic competitiveness, strive for excellence in various areas, such as education, research and social services, actively seek to host iconic academic tourism events, accumulate outstanding academic achievements in tourism studies, serve flagship tourism enterprises, support SMEs in tourism innovation and make greater contributions to the sustainable development of the tourism industry both home and abroad.
Source: Research Management Office, Faculty of International Tourism and Management
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