At present, the Department has an undergraduate student body of 197, plus 7 MPhil students and 35 PhD students. Graduates of the Department develop their careers in various educational institutions, industrial and commercial enterprises, mass media, social service agencies and government departments in Hong Kong. Quite a number of them are working abroad in the USA, Canada, Australia, UK and other overseas countries. The Department introduced the MA in Sociology in 2005-06 (an MSSc in Applied Social Research was also offered from 2005 to 2009). This is a taught programme offering sociological training to people working in the community who are interested in studying sociology for a Master’s degree.
Over the years, the Department has admitted a number of students from mainland China for doctoral studies. Some of them have graduated and returned to the mainland to teach at major institutions such as Peking University, Fudan University, Shanghai University, Wuhan University, Sun Yat-sen University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Moreover, under the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation, a training program had been organised between 1995 and 2003. Under this programme, each year six young sociology teachers from sociology departments in major universities on the mainland came to our department for one semester to improve their professional knowledge on a particular course
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