The University of Hong Kong is the oldest tertiary education institution in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1911 and opened in 1912 with teaching programmes in medicine and engineering. Since then, the University has grown substantially, and now embraces a very wide range of teaching and research programmes. The student population of the University was over 27,000 in 2012-2013, including more than 11,700 postgraduate students. At the end of 2012 the University had 1,632 full-time regular teaching staff, 6,094 academic staff in total. The University contains ten faculties: Architecture, Arts, Business and Economics, Dentistry, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Science and Social Sciences. Each faculty has a general office which students may contact if they need advice on academic matters. The University's extension arm is The School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKU SPACE).