📖 About the university

Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) is a public university located on the Macau peninsula, established in 1991 as the Macau Polytechnic Institute and elevated to full university status in 2022. Its central campus lies close to the historic core of the city, giving students easy access to Macau's cultural and civic life. The university teaches in Chinese, English, and Portuguese and is organised into faculties and schools covering health sciences, applied sciences and computing, arts, languages and translation, business, and public administration. Although it appears in the 901-950 band of the QS World University Rankings 2026 rather than with a single number, MPU has built strong reputations in specific fields: it is a regional leader in Chinese-Portuguese and multilingual translation and interpretation, and it also stands out in nursing and health sciences, computing and artificial intelligence, music and the arts, and gaming and hospitality studies. As Macau's designated centre for training bilingual Chinese-Portuguese professionals, it plays a special role in the city's function as a bridge to Portuguese-speaking countries. With a practical, professionally oriented curriculum and a multicultural setting, MPU suits students interested in languages, health, computing, and the creative and service industries.

🎯 Fields of study

🏛️ Colleges & schools

🌆 About Macau

Macau is a Special Administrative Region on the western side of the Pearl River estuary, a former Portuguese enclave that returned to China in 1999 and is today the only place in the country where casino gaming is legal. Compact and densely populated, it is famous for a UNESCO-listed historic centre where baroque churches, cobbled squares, and Chinese temples stand side by side, most iconically the Ruins of St. Paul's. The territory has a humid subtropical climate with hot, humid summers and mild winters, and Cantonese, Portuguese, and increasingly English and Mandarin are all in use. Its economy, built on tourism and the integrated resorts of the Cotai Strip, gives it one of the highest per-capita incomes in the world and funds generous public services and student scholarships. Macau is linked to Hong Kong and Zhuhai by the record-breaking Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge and has its own international airport on Taipa island. For an international student, Macau offers a uniquely East-meets-West Sino-Portuguese culture, small class sizes, strong tourism and hospitality programmes, and a safe, walkable environment.

💰 Fees & costs

💡 General estimates for international students in China; they vary by major and university, and the official figure is always on the university website.

🛂 Visa requirements by nationality

These are the general steps for the China student visa (X1/X2); details vary by the Chinese embassy in your country.