3+3+4 Academic Reform

Broad-based admission to study programmes in Arts, Business and Social Sciences will be implemented in 2012 and there is no specific requirement for admission to individual faculties. However, applicants may wish to note the criteria for allocation of Major Programmes/Discipline Majors/Streams of individual faculties published in the following faculty webpages:

Faculty of Arts (www.LN.edu.hk/arts/ug/allocation.php)
Faculty of Business (www.LN.edu.hk/progs/bbaprog/ug4/allocation.php)
Faculty of Social Sciences (www.LN.edu.hk/progs/ssprog/4year/Allocations.php)

For applicants who have learned Chinese Language for less than 6 years while receiving primary and secondary education; or have learned Chinese Language for 6 years or more in schools, but have been taught an adapted and simpler Chinese Language curriculum not normally applicable to the majority of students in local schools, the University will accept a Grade C or above in the alternative Chinese Language qualifications of GCE O-Level/GCSE/IGCSE as an alternative to the HKDSE Chinese Language.

Other Language subjects in Category C will be recognised as unspecified elective subjects. The minimum requirement is Grade E.

非華語的申請人如接受中小學教育期間學習中國語文少於六年；或在學校學習中國語文已有六年或以上時間，但期間是按一個經調適並較淺易的中國語文課程學習，而有關的課程一般並不適用於其他大部分在本地學校就讀的學生，則可考取其他相關的中國語文科考試(包括綜合中等教育證書(GCSE)、國際普通中學教育文憑(IGCSE)或普通教育文憑普通程度(GCE O-level)及成績須達C級或以上以符合中國語文科的要求)。