• Global Activities

• Internship Programmes

• Mentorship Programmes

• Other features

Global Activities

Exchange Programmes

This University implements student exchange programme to enhance the all-round development of students, particularly in the area of global outlook. Students of our undergraduate programmes may take part in the outbound exchange programme to study at the following partner institutions for one semester. It provides our students with good opportunity to improve their language skills by immersing in a foreign language environment. The student exchange programme also attracted inbound exchange students from Germany and Australia to join this Department in the past three years. It successfully added a global dimension to PolyU life.

• Australian Maritime College, Australia

• Arizona State University, USA

• University of Huddersfield, UK

• University of Calgary, Canada

• Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, China

Grand China Elite Programme

The Faculty of Business has recently launched the programme exclusively for students in the Faculty. Seven students of this Department will join it to stay in Shanghai University of Finance & Economics for one month. The programme will comprise the following elements: Intermediate Putonghua lessons, lectures on commercial and social issues of China, seminar discussion on special topics relating to modern China development, experience sharing between students of Faculty of Business and students of local institutions, and presentation in groups for topical subjects such as business environment in Hong Kong, business in China and so on. In addition, business visits to large enterprises in China will be organized.

Internship Programmes

Through participation in ‘Preferred Graduate’ Development Programme, our students will receive excellent internship opportunities. Various large companies such as container terminals, global liner shipping companies, freight forwarders and logistics operators shows their great support to the programme by offering many summer placements to students of this Department. Some students not only have received paid internships in summer but also have successfully obtained scholarship through keen competition with other applicants.

Mentorship Programmes

Students of our undergraduate programmes will have various opportunities to participate in mentorship programmes organized by this Department and the Faculty of Business.  During year one students will each be assigned a student mentor who will act as their big brothers/sisters giving them the very much needed initial guidance and help to acclimatize them into the new study environment.  These student mentors are chosen from among student leaders in higher years of the same programmes.  They would all have gone through some basic train-the-mentor training organized by the Faculty before they are assigned to serve the new students.  This friendly and caring relationship among peers will be part of the learning experience and beneficial to both the mentors and the mentees. 

For the year two students, the Department will make arrangements for them to meet their industrial mentors.  These are experienced professionals in our related discipline who volunteer to spend some of their precious time to develop a friendly relationship with the students.  Through informal social interactions they will share their valuable past experience, show their working environment, talk about their insights, answer mentees’ queries, demonstrate exemplary practices, and inspire new thoughts.  In addition to providing learning experiences supplementary to those obtained in the campus, a successful mentor-mentee relationship will often result in important and beneficial change of attitude.

Other features

Employment statistics about degree graduates of 2003:

• Most graduates successfully secured employment within various sectors of the logistics-related industries by August 2003.

• Average starting salary: HK$9,594.

• Most graduates felt that what they studied at PolyU are relevant/quite relevant to their job natures, e.g. shipping/airline/transport executive, marketing/sales executive, insurance executive, customer services officer and legal clerk, etc.