The Main Campus of the University of Hong Kong covers about 16 hectares of land in the Bonham Road/ Pokfulam area of Hong Kong Island and accommodates five of the ten faculties, namely Architecture, Business and Economics, Education, Engineering and Science, as well as the Main Library. A major building programme which began in the 1970s has seen the construction of many modern buildings on the Main Campus. These buildings stand adjacent to several retained older buildings, including the original Main Building which dates from 1912.
The University had completed a major extension in 2012, the Centennial Campus, immediately to the west of the Main Campus. The new development, located against an attractive backdrop of tree-clad hillsides, provides academic buildings, recreational facilities and other modern amenities. It houses the Faculties of Arts, Social Sciences and Law, with a state-of-the-art learning commons, a lecture centre and experimental teaching / learning spaces. A large landscaped area of 4,000 square metres can be found on top of the re-provisioned service reservoirs of the Water Supplies Department, HKSAR.
Since the opening of the HKU Station of the Kennedy Town extension of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) Island Line in December 2014, the campus is accessible by MTR.
The Sassoon Road Campus, situated three kilometres to the southwest of the Main Campus, mainly houses the departments of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine. Clinical teaching facilities are based in the Queen Mary Hospital which is one of the University’s teaching hospitals, and pre-clinical teaching facilities and library services are close by. The two major buildings for the Faculty of Medicine opened in 2001, i.e. William M.W. Mong Block and the Laboratory Block, provide facilities for pre-clinical and clinical research and teaching. Other teaching and/or research facilities in the Sassoon Road area include the School of Chinese Medicine, the School of Public Health, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Building for Interdisciplinary Research which houses multi-disciplinary research activities for the betterment of human health and welfare, as well as the premises for Laboratory Animal Unit and other supporting facilities.
The Faculty of Dentistry has its clinical teaching facilities and library services in the Prince Philip Dental Hospital in Sai Ying Pun, a short distance to the north of the Main Campus.
Other parts of the University’s estates include the Kadoorie Institute, which occupies 9.5 hectares of land in the New Territories, and the Swire Institute of Marine Sciences on the southern coast of Hong Kong Island.
Student residential accommodation is provided in a limited form on the Main Campus and the bulk of the accommodation is situated further south along Pokfulam Road, on Sassoon Road and Lung Wah Street.
Sports facilities, mainly indoors, are provided at Flora Ho and Lindsay Ride Sports Centres on Pokfulam Road, with the major sports fields being located in the Stanley Ho Sports Centre on Sha Wan Drive in the Sandy Bay area, with provisions for athletics, softball, rugby, soccer, hockey, etc. A 50-metre outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts and a multi-purpose sports area round off a comprehensive sports facility for the University.
The University is a smoke-free Campus. There is a total smoking ban, both indoors and outdoors.