Targeted Taught Postgraduate Programmes Fellowships Scheme (the Fellowships Scheme) is offered by the University Grants Committee (UGC), which provides fellowships for meritorious local students for designated taught postgraduate programmes to pursue further studies so as to benefit the Hong Kong society. More details are available at UGC’s website.
Amount of Fellowship
The fellowship students are required to pay a minimum tuition fee of HK$42,100, which is the prevailing rate of the UGC-funded programmes, and the differences will be subsidised by the fellowships subject to a cap of HK$120,000 (for the whole taught postgraduate programme, regardless of the actual study period) for the settlement of the tuition fee.
Eligibility
In addition to meeting PolyU’s admission requirements and the programme’s entrance requirements (if any), applicants should also fulfil the following criteria:
Assessment Criteria
Assessment criteria may include, but not limited to, applicants’ academic achievements, professional qualifications attained, work experience, interview results and the personal statement on their commitment and plan in serving for the industry of the applied programme.
Eligible Programmes in 2021-22 academic year
Programme |
Programme Code |
No. of Fellowship Places |
---|---|---|
MSc in Building Services Engineering |
04001-BEM/BSM |
25 |
MSc in Information Technology |
61030-FIT/PIT |
12 |
MSc in Electrical Engineering |
05002-NE/EET |
9 |
Master of Social Work |
54047-MSW |
22 |
MSc in Mechanical Engineering |
05002-NM/MET |
24 |
Master of Speech Therapy |
72021 |
10 |
MSc in Business Analytics |
23090-MAF/MAP |
8 |
MSc in Medical Imaging & Radiation Science |
55005-RMF/RMP |
11 |
MSc in Health Informatics |
06003-HIF/HIP |
10 |
Master of Design |
73035-DPF/DSP/IDB/INF/UEF |
22 |
MSc in International Shipping and Transport Logistics (Mixed-mode) |
44087-IFM/IPM |
8 |
MSc in Global Food Safety Management and Risk Analysis |
12057-MFT |
6 |
MSc in Medical Physics |
55005-MSF/MSP |
3 |
MSc in International Hospitality Management |
24045-MHF/MHP |
3 |
Application Procedures
If you are interested in applying for the Fellowship Scheme, please complete the fellowship application form, and submit it together with your application for admission via eAdmission by uploading the form in the additional document section. Departments may consider applications on a rolling basis until fellowship places are filled, you are encouraged to submit an application as early as possible. For details about selection arrangements of the Fellowship Scheme of individual programmes, please contact the programme offering department directly.
PolyU reserves the right to change the terms or withdraw the above fellowships. In case of any dispute/disagreement, PolyU’s decision is final.