The Faculty of Humanities and Arts has established an excellent reputation in Macao and Asia Pacific regions, and demonstrates vigorous vitality and potentials. The faculty offers a total of 20 undergraduate, master, and doctoral programs, including Communication, Design, Fine Arts, Film, Architecture, Digital Media, Acting and Musicology. The social science subject, to which the communication discipline belongs, ranks in the No. 251-300 range in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 for social sciences subject. The faculty has a total undergraduate and graduate enrollment of about 5,000.
The faculty has established the Macao Media Research Center and the Macao World Heritage Conservation and Development Research Centre. The Macao Media Research Center is the partner research base of the Information and Communication Research Center of Fudan University, which is a key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.
Visiting Scholars
Established scholars from around the world visited the faculty routinely and taught courses to the students. The visiting scholars are affiliated with Yale University, University of Connecticut, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, University of Hamburg, University of Huddersfield, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Communication University of China, Fudan University, China Academy of Art, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing Normal University, The Central Academy of Drama, Shanghai Theatre Academy, and Taiwan Normal University.
Academic Facilities
The faculty emphasizes practical capabilities, aiming to cultivate the students’ hands-on skills and creativity inspirations. It operates diverse laboratories and studios, including “Wood-Metal Design Lab”, “Ceramic Arts Lab”, “Digital Construction Lab”, “Heritage Conservation Laboratory”, “Film Studio”, “Film Editing Lab” and “Art Museum”.
Awards
Students have many opportunities to participate in exhibitions and competitions and have earned many awards. They were the finalists in China Art Exhibition, Salon Des Beaux Arts, Beijing International Film Festival and Shanghai International Film Festival. They also won many awards in Platinum Originality National University Student Design Competition, The Inter-University Annual Environmental Design Award of China, Strongest Graduation season, International Design Awards, Campus Newspaper Awards, China College Student Advertising Art Festival, C-IDEA, “Hua Can Award”, China Decoration Design Award, A' Design Award, and World Landscape Architecture Awards. A Student served as the official image designers for Adobe InDesign. The " Bing Dwen Dwen" chiefly designed by the MUST student was successfully selected as the mascot of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympic Games, and the logo created by student was selected as the "China National Park" image logo, etc.
Further Education of Graduates
Many of our graduates continue to pursue further education at prestigious universities around the world, including Columbia University, New York University, Michigan State University, Seattle University, University of Oxford, Royal College of Art, King's College London, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Loughborough University, Nanyang Technological University, Brock University, University of British Columbia, The University of Melbourne, Domus Academy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and City University of Hong Kong.
Faculty Events
The faculty regularly organizes the “Distinguished Lecture Series in Arts”, and the “Art Forum” . The faculty annually holds various activities like International Communication Week, Graduation Exhibition, and publishes graduation portfolio.
In addition, the faculty organizes student teams to participate in various national and international field programs, and also presents Commendation to acknowledge students’ efforts in such practical work.
