MORE THAN 1,300 Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) students celebrated their graduation at a joint ceremony last Friday.
This was the third year that students from the School of Professional Education and Executive Development (Speed) and Hong Kong Community College (HKCC), both operating under PolyU's College of Professional and Continuing Education (CPCE), have celebrated their graduation together.
Of the 1,386 graduates, 1,180 were from HKCC's nine associate degree programmes, including associate in business, bilingual communication, design, engineering, applied social sciences, information technology, health studies, arts and science.
The largest group of 666 graduates was from the associate in business degree, which included 18 mainland students from the Zhuhai campus.
Two hundred and six students graduated from Speed, including the first batch of 131 graduates from its top-up bachelor's degree programmes in marketing and public relations, and travel industry management.
According to the university, about 770 out of 1,074 graduate survey respondents plan to continue their degree studies full- or part-time this year, more than doubling last year's number of 333.