25% 4-star and 3-star outputs. LU ranks second among the institutions and is above the sector-wide 19%. UGC General Research Fund (GRF) Results 2015/16 LU's overall success rate of 36.1% ranks second among the institutions and is above the sector-wide 34.9%. Humanities and Social Sciences: LU's success rate of 47.4% is the highest among the institutions and above the sector-wide 32.7%. Humanities & Creative Arts: LU's 80% success rate is top among the institutions (sector-wide 40.6%). Mechanical, Production & Industrial Engineering: Together with another institution, LU takes the second position among all with a success rate of 50%, and is not far from the top rate of 56.4%. Education: LU's success rate is 100% while the sector average is 34%. UGC Early Career Scheme (ECS) Results 2015/16 LU's success rate of 71.4% is the highest among the institutions while the sector average is 39.9%. Humanities and Social Sciences: LU also comes first under this panel with a success rate of 66.7% while the sector average is 34.3%. Humanities & Creative Arts: LU's success rate is 100% and the sector average is 47.8%, which makes it rank third in terms of the total amount of funds obtained in this discipline. Business Studies (with Economics): LU's success rate is 100% while the sector average is 33.8%. History Canton Period Lingnan University was founded as Canton Christian College in Guangzhou, China as a Non-Denominational Christian university by Andrew P. Happer of the American Presbyterian (North) Council in 1889. The school changed location several times over the years. In 1900, the school relocated to Macau due to the Boxer Rebellion. The school moved back to Guangzhou and built a permanent campus at the Haizhu District in 1904. The university moved to Hong Kong for the first time in 1938 after Guangzhou fell to the Japanese military. The university stayed in Hong Kong for 4 years before moving to Shaoguan after Hong Kong's capitulation to the Japanese forces. After World War II concluded, Lingnan University moved back to its permanent campus at Haizhu. Lingnan School After the 1949 revolution in China, the university remained in Guangzhou, and was merged into Sun Yat-sen University in 1952. In 1967, the Lingnan Secondary School board of directors, along with the Lingnan University Hong Kong Alumnus Club and Lingnan Club founded the Lingnan Education Expansion Council, and began to organise the Lingnan School in Hong Kong. In the formative