📖 About the university

Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) is a private research university founded in 2000, shortly after Macau's return to China, and it has grown into the territory's largest university by enrolment. Its campus on Taipa island sits near the Cotai resort strip and the Macau International Airport, giving it a modern, purpose-built setting. The university teaches in a mix of Chinese and English and is organised into faculties and schools covering business, innovation engineering, Chinese medicine, law, hospitality and tourism management, medicine, humanities and arts, and international tourism. Ranked 440th in the QS World University Rankings 2026, MUST is particularly recognised for hospitality and tourism management, business, Chinese medicine, and space science, and it operates a State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences that has contributed to China's deep-space missions. As a young and fast-growing institution, it has invested heavily in research output and international rankings while drawing many students from mainland China and abroad. MUST suits students interested in tourism, business, medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine in a lively, resort-oriented city.

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🌆 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.