Traditional Chinese Medicine Sciences as an crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is not only a splendid gem of ancient Chinese science, but also a key to unlocking the treasure trove of Chinese civilization. Since its establishment, Macau University of Science and Technology has regarded TCM as one of its core development areas. The Faculty of Chinese Medicine was founded at the university’s inception in 2000, launching the Bachelor of Chinese Medicine programme. In response to the development needs of the Greater Health Industry in the Macao Special Administrative Region, the Bachelor of Pharmacy programme in Chinese Materia Medica was subsequently introduced.

Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) was founded in the year 2000, and the Faculty of Chinese Medicine (FCM) was established in the same year. At present, the Faculty has become the only higher education institution that has a complete educational curriculum system of Chinese Medicine in Macau. At present, the Faculty provides academic degrees including Bachelor Degrees of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy in Chinese Medicine, Master and Doctoral Degrees of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Medicines and Integrated Traditional Chinese & Western Medicine, and postdoctoral research workstations etc.

To reserve talents, the government of Macau Special Administrative Region (Macau SAR) committed to develop the higher education since the transfer of sovereignty of Macau from the Portuguese Republic to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999; and the Faculty of Chinese Medicine of MUST emerged as the time required. Since its establishment in the year 2000, the Faculty has provided full-time five-year Bachelor’s Degree of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which laid a solid foundation for the sustainable development of Chinese Medicine in Macau. Then a complete degree programme system of Chinese Medicine including Bachelor/Master/Doctoral Degrees of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Medicines and Integrated Traditional Chinese & Western Medicine was set up; in year 2011, postdoctoral workstation for quality research in Chinese Medicines and novel drugs development was established, which marks the establishment of a complete TCM senior personnel training system in Macau. Nowadays, the faculty has become an important part of China's higher education of TCM and an important base of TCM teaching and researching in Macau. Besides local students, there are many young students from mainland China. Many local graduates have become the fresh force of the Chinese medicine community and industry in Macau and win the public trust; and many graduates from mainland China continue for further education in Hong Kong, Macau or Oversea, and some of them take part in the medical licensing examination of TCM and became doctors in clinic.