Programmes Offered

Semester Exchange

Course Load

• A course at HKU usually has 6 HKU credits (3 credits for broadening courses). A full load is 30 credits for one semester (60 credits for a year) but you might also take a minimum of 24 credits to a maximum of 36 credits each semester, subject to the approval of the Dean/Head of the Department.
• Within each semester's full load of 30 credits, half of them must come from a single faculty. That means you should pick three courses from one faculty while the remainding can be chosen from other faculties.
• All courses, except those offered by the Department of Chinese, are taught in English.

Semester Date

HKU uses the semester system and detailed semester dates can be found at http://www3.hku.hk/adqa/dates-of-semesters.php. Here are some of the highlights:

Course Information

Please refer to individual faculty websites for course provision and course content:

Credit Bearing Cantonese/Mandarin Courses for Exchange Students

 

Faculty of Arts

• School of Chinese - all courses offered by the School of Chinese are taught in either Cantonese or Mandarin
• School of English
• School of Humanities (African Studies / Comparative Literature / Fine Arts / History / Linguistics / Music / Philosophy)
• School of Modern Languages and Cultures (Japanese studies / American Studies / European Studies / Modern China Studies / and other languages studies including Arabic / French / German / Greek / Italian / Japanese / Korean / Portuguese / Spanish / Swedish / Thai)
• Centre of Buddhist Studies

Faculty of Business and Economics

Please note:

1. Courses offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) are highly competitive. Students who are in their final year in particular, should note that course enrollment is NOT guaranteed.
2. Students who apply to FBE should have a grade level of B average / CGPA 3.0 / Satisfactory level.
3. Students should have already completed the course prerequisites before requesting to enroll in courses with pre- requirements Co-registration (e.g taking Microeconomics I and II together in a semester) is not allowed.
4. Economics and Finances courses highly emphasize mathematics.
   • School of Business
   • School of Economics and Finances

Faculty of Education

 

Faculty of Engineering

• Department of Civil Engineering
• Department of Computer Science
• Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
• Department of Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Law

Please also refer to Admission Requirements set by the faculty.

Faculty of Science

• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Earth Science
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Physics
• Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science
• School of Biological Sciences

Faculty of Social Sciences

• Courses offered to exchange and visiting students
• Department of Geography
• Department of Politics and Public Administration
• Department of Psychology
• Department of Social Work and Social Administration
• Department of Sociology
• Journalism and Media Studies Centre

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Summer Programme

Some of our faculties offer summer programmes and welcome international students to enroll. A comprehensive programme list will be announced for the programmes that will be offered in the coming summer. Please go to http://www.hku.hk/summer for details.

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