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flag HKUST awarded honorary doctorates to five global leaders and graduated 6,929 students in 2025.

flag HKUST conferred honorary doctorates on five global leaders—Prof. flag Pradeep Khosla, Nobel laureate Prof. Roger Kornberg, author Liu Cixin, Nobel economist Sir Christopher Pissarides, and Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman—during its Congregation 2025 on October 18, 2025. flag The ceremony, led by Pro-Chancellor Dr. John Chan and President Prof. Nancy Ip, also marked the graduation of the Class of 2025, with 6,929 degrees awarded and the university’s alumni network surpassing 111,000 worldwide. flag Prof. Ip honored the graduates’ role in advancing HKUST’s mission of bridging Eastern and Western perspectives and presented the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching to Prof. Ben Chan.

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