If you require a student visa to study in Hong Kong or are staying in Hong Kong under the "Immigration Arrangements for Non-local Graduates", you will be regarded as a non-local applicant. Non-local applicants who possess only visitor or tourist visas can neither be registered as students nor commence their studies until they have obtained student visas.

For dependant visa / entry permit holders who were 18 years old or above when they were issued with such visa / entry permit by the Director of Immigration, they will be regarded as non-local applicants and should follow the application/admissions arrangements for non-local students.

Local and non-local applicants are considered under different admissions schemes. The levels of tuition fees for local and non-local students are also different for most programmes. If your status changes from non-local to local or vice versa after you submit your application, any offers made under the initial admissions scheme may be cancelled and your application will be considered in competition with other eligible applicants under the subsequent admissions scheme.

Majority of our mainland students are admitted on the basis of their results in the current year Chinese Mainland Joint Entrance Examinations. If you hold other international qualifications, you will only be further considered if you attain, or have the potential to attain, good academic results.

If you have withdrawn from a programme of study at PolyU without completing the withdrawal procedures or have been required to withdraw in the previous academic year, you need to provide information about your PolyU study in your application or you may be disqualified. You will not be considered for re-admission to the same programme this academic year and your application will not be processed further. The fees paid will not be refunded. However, you will still be eligible to apply for admission to other programmes.

No, there will not be any intake other than the one in September.

Subject to the availability of study places, applications submitted after the application deadline for normal consideration round will still be accepted till 31 May 2022.

Applicants, who are both citizens of other countries and holders of valid Hong Kong permanent identity cards, should apply for admission to our undergraduate programmes via the Non-JUPAS Admission Scheme [8]. Those who do not hold Hong Kong permanent identity cards and need to apply for student visas to study at our University should follow the application/admissions arrangements for international applicants.

PolyU welcomes applications from quality candidates from around the world. Please click here [10] to check the guidelines.

Non-local applicants for full-time Bachelor's Degree programmes are required to meet the following English language requirement:

A Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score of 80 for the Internet-based test* or 550 for the paper-based test;

An overall Band Score of 6 in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).

* We do not accept MyBest^TM Score as meeting our English language requirement.

The above English language requirement can be waived for applicants who have reached an equivalent English standard as follows:

• Grade E or above in GCE A-Level / IAL or AS / IAS Level English; OR
• Grade C / Grade 4 or above in GCE O-Level / GCSE / IGCSE English / English Language / English Literature; OR
• Grade 4 or above in English or English Literature at International Baccalaureate (IB); OR
• Grade C / 180 or above in Certificate in Advanced English (CAE); OR
• Specified results in some of the national / regional qualifications (Please refer to "Guidelines on Non-local Qualifications [12]" section)

Individual cases will be considered on their own merits by the departments concerned. Applicants will be required to demonstrate their language proficiency in the selection interviews/tests.

Institution codes are as follows:

IB	00251
ACT	2764
SAT / AP / SAT Subject Test	7261
TOEFL	0732

If you hold A-Level or IB qualifications, you may be granted transferred credits up to 25% upon admission to the 4-year degree curriculum. Departments concerned will consider each case on its individual merits and inform you of the result at the Notice of Offer.

If you sit multiple examinations, please enter all relevant results and qualifications in your online application. Our University will base on all the information to consider your eligibility for admission.

Academic departments will post a note in the individual programme of our website (Study@PolyU website [17] > Individual programme entry > Entrance Requirements) if they have subject preference for their programmes. You may also click here [18] for a summary page of programme-specific requirements.

If applicants’ qualifications are not listed in the guidelines, their applications will normally be considered on a case-by-case basis. In general, applicants who graduate from high school and attain good academic results with good English proficiency are eligible for further consideration.

"Non-local student" (except those staying in Hong Kong under the "Immigration Arrangements for Non-local Graduates" and dependant visa / entry permit holders who were 18 years old or above when they were issued with such visa / entry permit by the Director of Immigration) need to apply for a visa to study in Hong Kong. Please note that the Immigration Department may not accept student visa applications from nationals of Afghanistan, Cuba, Laos, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of ) and Nepal. For details, please refer to the Immigration Department's website by clicking here [21].

Under the “Immigration Arrangements for Non-local Graduates”, you can apply to stay in or return to Hong Kong after you have graduated from PolyU or completed a full-time programme at degree level or above in Hong Kong. You will normally be granted a stay of 12 months on time limitation without any other conditions upon application, provided that you meet the normal immigration requirements. During the stay, you are free to take up employment or pursue studies in Hong Kong without the need to seek prior approval from the Immigration Department. Please click here [23] to refer to the Immigration Department’s website for details.

If you select the wrong visa type by mistake, please send an email (ar.intl@polyu.edu.hk (link sends e-mail) [25]) to us and attach a copy of visa/ entry permit in support of your claim. Local and non-local applicants are considered under different admission schemes. If your status has been changed from non-local to local, or vice versa, any offers made under the initial admission scheme will be cancelled. Your application will be considered in competition with other eligible applicants under the subsequent admission scheme.

Non-local applicants: HK$450

Please note that other than the specified application fee, you are not required to pay any money to any persons in connection with your application.

Non-local students are not eligible to apply for financial assistance from both the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and PolyU. Please therefore secure sufficient funds before embarking on studies at PolyU. You are however allowed to take up part-time on-campus employment for not more than 20 hours per week throughout the year and off-campus summer jobs during the summer months (i.e. 1 June to 31 August) without any work hours limit, which helps you earn some petty money to cover part of your daily expenditures.

Non-local students should be aware of the high cost of living in Hong Kong. Apart from tuition fee and hall fees, academic expenses (excluding computer and related expenses) for full-time students are likely to be in the region of HK$7,000 – HK$10,000 for most disciplines* and around HK$30,000 for design programmes. Basic meal charges at campus catering outlets are likely to be about HK$44,000 per annum (or about HK$33,000 if summer terms are excluded).

Living expenses vary for individuals, students may wish to allow funds for personal items, entertainment, overseas travel, medical expenses, etc. The Student Halls of Residence charged a reasonable rent of HK$13,067 in academic year 2021/22 (from late August to early June). For hall fee details, please click here [29]. Non-local students are reminded to secure sufficient funds for the accommodation cost in their 3rd year of study onwards, before embarking on studies at PolyU.

* Specific disciplines may have higher academic expenses.

PolyU recognises outstanding local and non-local students admitted to its full-time undergraduate programmes by granting scholarships of various amounts on the basis of academic merit, non-academic achievements (e.g. prizes/awards received in internationally recognised competitions) and interview performance. Outstanding international applicants who wish to be considered for scholarships should fill in the scholarship application section via eAdmission. Applicants awarded scholarships will be informed when they are offered admission.

Outstanding international applicants should supplement their distinctive qualities and outstanding attributes, both academic merit and non-academic achievements, for our assessment of their eligibility for scholarship. They are also welcome to write a statement justifying the grounds that they deserve for a scholarship.

Full-time non-local students in government-funded programmes are eligible to apply for accommodation in the Student Halls of Residence. Non-local undergraduate students will, subject to the availability of residential places, normally be given an opportunity to stay in the University-managed Accommodation (including the Student Halls and off-campus housing), for their first two years of study (including the period of joining Work-integrated Education/internship and/or outbound exchange progamme, if any). For the 3rd year of study onwards, non-local students are required to arrange their own accommodation outside the Student Halls. In view of the above, they are advised to secure sufficient funds for their housing plan. For hall admission policies, please visit here [33].

Applications for credit transfer are normally not accepted until your initial enrolment on the programme or before the end of the add/drop period of the first semester of your first year of study in our university. It is at that stage that you should support your application with relevant documents, e.g. transcript of study, syllabus.

For programmes which specify acceptance of certain advanced qualification, e.g. Higher Diploma, Associate Degree, Bachelor's Degree, you may automatically be considered for credit transfer. If you are required to take fewer credits than the normal requirement, you will learn about it at the Notice of Offer. You may also write a statement about your wish to be considered for credit transfer. Please submit your application via eStudent [35] and it will be up to departments to make decision on this.

Normally, no more than 25 percent of the credits that are usually required can be transferred from other post-secondary institutions for your PolyU award.

The validity period of subject credits earned is eight years from the year of attainment, i.e. the year in which the subject is completed, unless otherwise specified by the department responsible for the content of the subject. Grades may or may not be given for the transferred credits.

Repeating of government-funded study across institutions is generally discouraged, irrespective of whether there is a change of programme or discipline, and only cases with very good reasons will be exceptionally considered on a case-by-case basis.

Please submit your application online via our eAdmission System [38].

For our full-time Bachelor's Degree programmes, you are allowed to submit only one online application, with up to two choices.

An application number (e.g. 22XXXXXXX) will be automatically generated once you have submitted your application successfully. 

Yes, you can still apply for admission if you can provide the examination results to meet the general entrance requirement before mid-August. In the meantime, please upload your latest results, e.g. transcript of your high school study, via eAdmission. Alternatively, you may authorize your high school to provide us with the predicted IB or GCEAL results in "Add Qualification > Academic Referee" section via eAdmission by inputting principals' / counselors contact details, or ask your school to send us the transcripts / predicted public examination results via email (ar.intl@polyu.edu.hk (link sends e-mail) [25])  for our preliminary assessment. A conditional offer will be given to applicants who are considered having the potential to be eligible for admission.

You will be notified by email if you are shortlisted for interview/test. If you are given an offer or a conditional offer, you will be informed via email/SMS. You may also log into your eAdmission account from time to time to check the progress of your application.

If you are applying for admission to year 1 of government-funded Bachelor’s Degree programmes and want to be notified of your result earlier, please submit your application for earlier consideration according to the processing rounds here [43].

If there is no news by late July, you may assume that your application is unsuccessful. No separate notification will be sent for unsuccessful cases.

You should

• indicate your acceptance and settle the initial fee before the "last day for payment" displayed in the first debit note of your Notice of Offer;
• ask your school to send us direct an official transcript or official letter stating your final results of your qualifications mentioned in/attached to your application by mail (Academic Registry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong) for verification;
• settle the remaining tuition fee before the "last day for payment" displayed in the second debit note of your Notice of Offer; and
• register online during the programme registration period as indicated on the Notice of Offer. (For conditional offer, you need to complete the procedures for meeting the conditions stated in the Notice of Offer before you register online.)

Otherwise your place will be offered to another applicant.

Please log into your eAdmission account to verify your application data. If you cannot find your application data, you should contact us immediately (please quote your application number in all your correspondences with PolyU).

As the information you entered in the online application form will form the basis on which your application will be considered, you should make sure that it is complete and accurate. Otherwise, your chance of admission may be affected, and any offer made will also be withdrawn if it is based on incomplete and inaccurate application data.

Once you have submitted your application, you are not allowed to change the programme choice(s) you selected earlier. But, you would still be able to update additional educational details / qualifications and upload relevant supporting documents to the online portal.

No, except for materials that cannot be uploaded, e.g. design portfolio. Please upload the documents to your online application and departments will be able to read them together with your application data.

You are allowed to submit further documents, which are not yet available at the time you submit your application, after application submission. Please scan the documents and log into your eAdmission account to upload them.

Uploaded documents should be

• in black and white
• in A4 size
• with low quality high compression (e.g. 300dpi)
• less than 5 MB per file
• pdf or jpg files

You should not submit any documents to departments direct except for materials that cannot be uploaded, e.g. design portfolio.

Please provide officially translated copies of the documents certified by your Institutions, Ministry of Education or legal authorities in addition to copies of the original documents, otherwise your application may not be considered.

In this case, please request your school to send us direct an official letter stating your final results by mail (Academic Registry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong) or email to ar.intl@polyu.edu.hk (link sends e-mail) [25]. Your full name and application number must be clearly included in it.

It is optional to submit the recommendation letter and personal statement for most of the programmes. Hence, there is no specific format but the content should be able to show that the applicant is suitable to study the programme(s) applied.

If there are any additional supporting documents which are not uploaded to / attached in the online application, please upload them under “Additional Document” section.

Please do not submit excessive documents than required. If there are additional documents required by the individual programmes, the requirements will clearly be posted in our Study@PolyU [17] website. Please refer to this link [53] for further information.

All uploaded documents cannot be deleted. However, you can upload the lastest transcripts/ score reports under"Additional Document" section for our consideration.

All identity documents such as passport, mainland ID, identity card, visa permit etc. must not be uploaded to the online portal via eAdmission [55]. You will receive our notification by email if there is a need to clarify with you about your nationality or identity.

Please contact us on (852) 2333 0600 or via email at ar.intl@polyu.edu.hk (link sends e-mail) [25].