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Admission Requirements

Applicants must have fulfilled the following General Entrance Requirements and Programme Entrance Requirements stipulated for individual study programmes, if any.

General Entrance Requirements and Programme Entrance Requirements

Applicants must have obtained the following minimum requirements in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) examination:

Chinese Language*:

Level 3

English Language:

Level 3

Mathematics Compulsory Part:

Level 2 (Level 3 for applicants to the Bachelor of Science in Data Science programme)

Liberal Studies:

Level 2

One Elective Subject:

Level 2

Notes:

  1. The subjects stipulated in General Entrance Requirements refer to the senior secondary subjects listed as Category A.
  2. Applied Learning subjects in Category B will be used as additional supporting information.
  3. Other Language subjects in Category C will be recognised as unspecified elective subjects. The minimum requirement is Grade E.
  4. Passes in HKDSE subjects can be obtained at one or more sittings. The best grade for a subject will be used in the calculation of the score in case of multiple attempts. There is no penalty or mark deduction for repeated sittings of a subject.
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For applicants who have studied Chinese Language for less than six years while receiving primary and secondary education; or those who have studied Chinese Language for six years or more in schools which adopt an adapted and simpler Chinese Language curriculum not otherwise applicable to the majority of students in local schools, the University will accept the following as an alternative to the HKDSE Chinese Language:

  • Grade E or above in the alternative Chinese Language qualifications of GCE A-Level/AS-Level; or
  • Grade C or above in the alternative Chinese Language qualifications of GCE O-Level/GCSE/IGCSE; or
  • "Attained" or above in Applied Learning Chinese.

Major/Stream Allocation Criteria

The University has adopted both broad-based and programme-based admissions to study programmes in Arts and Business Faculties. The Faculty of Social Sciences will continue to adopt broad-based admission. 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
Faculty of Business
Faculty of Social Sciences

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