Hong Kong is home to eight popular and high ranked government-funded universities. These universities offer a large number of degrees in wide variety of disciplins. The medium of instruction in almost all courses is English. Short courses are very common in other languages most popular are in Chinese. A large number of scholars move towards world recognized reputed institutions of Hong Kong for higher level learning.
Many of Hong Kong universities are in top 200 in Newsweek and Times Higher Education Supplement's World University Rankings since 2006.