Students from all subject areas are welcome to apply.

For sub-degree applicants, interview is compulsory for admissions to the HKUST Business School. The face-to-face interview is tentatively scheduled for January each year.

For other post-secondary applicants, interview is compulsory for BBA Global Business, BSc Quantitative Finance, BSc Risk Management and Business Intelligence and BSc Sustainable and Green Finance. For other business programs, some applicants may be invited for interview whereas some admissions decisions may be made without an interview. 

All interview invitations will be sent by email. Please check your registered email account regularly to ensure that you do not miss any interview invitation emails.

Online interviews may be arranged for applicants not living in Hong Kong SAR. Interview invitations will be sent by email.

Students applying on the basis of local sub-degree qualifications, e.g. associate degree or higher diploma, should select only Business and Management for entering the School first and select your desired major(s) at the end of the first or the second semester through the Major Selection Exercises (MSE)

Full applications (including supporting documents) received before the priority round application deadline (please check HERE) may receive admissions decisions from late December onwards. Those who do not receive any admissions offer during the Priority Round will automatically be considered for offer(s) on a rolling basis until the end of the admissions cycle.

Most of the offer decisions will be released from January to June. It is hard to say the exact date on which your offer will be made, and in some cases, offers will be made after this period so please be patient. You can check your status from time to time online. 

Students in our 4-year programs generally need to complete a minimum of 120 credits.

Holders of a recognized local sub-degree may be granted up to 60 advanced credits. As a general policy, sub-degree holders can gain 6 block transfer of University Common (Broadening group) Credits (CORE BROAD), 15 block transfer of unassigned free credits.

For other post-secondary applicants, if you hold certain qualifications that have been listed in our credit equivalency database, you may gain the designated number of transfer credits upon your admissions.

For more details, please refer to here.

TOEFL and IELTS can serve as proof of English language proficiency, but these tests are not necessary if you meet the requirements with any other recognized qualifications such as HKDSE English, IB English and GCE AS/AL English. For details, please visit here .

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 are purposefully delivered in Chinese or other languages.