International Education
Semester Program at Lingnan University

Academics at Lingnan University

St. Mary's students have the opportunity to study abroad at Lingnan University, a small, residential university with a distinctive and unique mission of providing liberal arts education to students in Hong Kong. It aspires to be an internationally recognized liberal arts university with Hong Kong characteristics, bringing together the best liberal arts traditions from both the East and the West. International students can enroll in Lingnan for a semester or academic year.

The mission statement emphasizes a whole-person approach to education which enables its students to think, judge, care and act responsibly in the changing circumstances of Hong Kong and the world.

Lingnan offers a liberal arts curriculum with courses in Chinese, Contemporary English Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Philosophy, Translation, Visual Studies, Business Administration, and Social Sciences.

Read the Lingnan Fast Fact Sheet for more information.

Academic Credit for Coursework Abroad

Credits earned abroad will count toward your degree at St. Mary's, often fulfilling Core Curriculum, major requirements, or elective credit. Each course is evaluated for its equivalency at St. Mary's.

To transfer credits to St. Mary's, SMCM students complete the Pre-Approval of Transfer Credit Form and return it to the Office of International Education. The IE Office will work with the Registrar and department chairs to determine equivalencies for individual courses taught abroad.  As stated in the catalog, the College may refuse to grant credit for study-abroad courses taken by the student that have not been pre-approved. 

More information about how to ensure credits earned abroad transfer successfully to St. Mary's is available in the College catalog under Academic Policies and on the Pre-departure Blackboard course.