
Emphasis On
Professional Expertise

Integration Of Experience
In & Out of The Classroom

Small-Class Teaching

Enhancement Of
Language Skills
We emphasise both theory & practice
Our courses cover everything from multiplatform professional skills and big data to media theory, law and ethics. We nurture and build creative, critical and analytical thinking skills, and graduates of the journalism programme fill many leadership roles in the media industry.


Our Milestones
1956
Hong Kong Baptist College is founded in Kowloon Tong.
1968
The Department of Communication is founded with Journalism as one of three diploma courses offered.
1968-69
The experimental student newspapers - The Young Reporter and San Po Yan - are first published in English and Chinese. Today, these are two of the longest running student-run newspapers in Hong Kong.
1974
The Young Broadcaster, the first closed-circuit, campus-based TV broadcasting channel in Southeast Asia of its kind, is established. Today, broadcast students produce newscasts on student-run platform Broadcast News Network.
1987
The Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hons) in Communication is launched. Journalism is established as a major.
1994
Hong Kong Baptist College becomes Hong Kong Baptist University, now one of eight publicly funded universities in Hong Kong.
2007
The Institute for Journalism and Society is founded and the first Pulitzer Prize Winners Workshop is launched. The MA in International Journalism Studies programme is also launched.
2010
The Communication and Visual Arts building is opened with 11 stories and more than 9,000 sq. feet. Journalism students attend most of their courses here.
2012
The university changes from a three-year programme to a four-year programme. Journalism students can now choose to focus on Chinese Journalism, Data and Media Communication or International Journalism.
2013
The first HKBU-SOPA Award Winners Forum is organized. Financial Journalism Concentration is launched.
2015
The Data & News Society formed to promote the collaboration of data and news.
2018
The interdisciplinary Data and Media Communication Concentration offered with the Department of Computer Science is introduced.
