Hong Kong Metropolitan University, referred to as "Hong Kong Metropolitan University", was founded by the Hong Kong government in 1989. It is the third degree-granting university in Hong Kong and one of the first batch of Hong Kong universities to recruit students in the mainland; in May 1997, Became the seventh statutory university in Hong Kong; changed to its current name on September 1, 2021; in March 2024, became the first university of applied sciences in Hong Kong.
Tudor University is one of the nine public universities in Hong Kong, one of the nine universities with comprehensive self-academic accreditation qualifications, and is also a famous nursing education university in Hong Kong. Since 2007, Metropolitan University has joined the joint university admissions system, and its full-time undergraduate courses are eligible to receive government funding. It is a founding member of the Jiangsu-Hong Kong-Macao University Cooperation Alliance, [13] Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance, the Global Alliance of Metropolitan Universities, and the Ocean University Alliance. One of the member universities of the State Key Laboratory of Pollution, etc.