Students from all subject areas are welcome to apply.

Students applying on basis of mainland JEE qualification should select only one choice in application. Depending on your choice of program, you may additionally select an alternative school-based program choice.

If you are interested in business studies in general and would like to take time to explore your program interest and aspiration, you should choose Business and Management to enter the School first and select your desired major(s) at the end of the first few terms. About half of the program seats for each major are reserved for students admitted into Business & Management to enter the programs via the Major Selection Exercise (MSE)

If you have particular interest and understanding in a specific business program (e.g. Marketing), you should put it as your 1st choice and Business & Management as your alternative choice to maximize your chance to be admitted to HKUST Business School (given the smaller intake size of program-based admissions). The year 1 curricula of all Business programs are identical. Students entering via either route will start major program study from the 2nd year onwards.

We are unfortunately unable to provide a cutoff score, or predict the likeliness of offering admissions, as the JEE provincial score distributions and score results of the application pool each year is different.

An admissions interview will only be arranged for shortlisted applicants. Interview arrangements will be announced on the online application system and our colleagues will contact you by email. If you are invited to the interview, you MUST attend the interview in order to be further considered for admissions.

Following the interviews, admissions offers will be issued in batches on a daily basis from late June till early July.

Entrance scholarships will be awarded to eligible students automatically on a competitive basis in terms of renewable or one-off, full or half tuition waivers. Information on scholarship awards will be provided together with the admissions offer. Applicants do not need to submit a separate scholarship application. For details, please refer to here.

HKUST Business School also offers top-up scholarships for eligible applicants.

TOEFL and IELTS can serve as proof of English language proficiency to support your application, but these tests are not necessary as long as you are taking English in the subject of “Foreign Language” in JEE and being shortlisted for our interview and perform well in the interview. Those who are not taking English in “Foreign Language” must possess valid results of international English proficiency tests that are recognized by HKUST. Such results must be submitted together with the application for admissions. Please see the University’s English Language requirements under the International Qualification section.

HKUST ranked No. 1 in Hong Kong, No. 3 in Greater China, and No. 24 Worldwide (Global Employability Survey 2025). Our Business School offers a full range of professional career services and trainings to our undergraduate students.

Based on the survey of the class of 2024, nearly 60% of mainland graduates pursued further studies in Hong Kong SAR or overseas. For the remaining mainland graduates, 57% entered the banking and finance sector, 24% joined administration/management sector. The remaining entered accounting/auditing/taxation, merchandising/purchasing and system analysis & computer programming sectors. 

Employers of our business graduates include PwC, HSBC, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, UBS, Hang Seng Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Societe Generale, Citibank, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, AlphaSights and L'Oreal Hong Kong.

HKUST undergraduate students benefit from faculty’s extensive and close connection with top business schools all over the world. HKUST as a research university, our courses and interaction with faculty lay very solid foundation for research-focused students. The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) engages UG students early on in research areas they’re interested in.

HKUST Business School is excited to introduce the Graduate Program Pathway (GPP), which will help students streamline their transition from undergraduate studies to Master of Science (MSc) programs at HKUST Business School. GPP will be awarded to eligible students automatically and applicants do not need to submit a separate application for GPP. For further details, please refer to the GPP leaflet.

Other mainland graduates’ destination of further studies include Cornell University (USA), Harvard University (USA), HKUST (HK), Imperial College London (UK), London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), MIT (USA), National University of Singapore (Singapore), New York University (USA), University of California, Berkeley (USA), University of Chicago (USA), Yale University (USA) and etc.. Apart from business disciplines, graduates also pursue further studies in engineering and science disciplines.

No. Applicants applying to HKUST are not required to know Cantonese. The medium of instruction at HKUST is English. All the lectures, course materials and work will be conducted in English except for language courses and a small number of courses, e.g. Chinese Literature, that require Chinese usage.