First-year admissions, 2025/26 (FTE)
4,912
22.0% of all UGC-funded first-year admissions
Non-local
33.4%
1,642 FTE
From the Chinese Mainland
20.8%
1,022 FTE
Senior-year admissions, 2025/26 (FTE)
392
First-year-first-degree figures are admissions to the first year of a bachelor's degree on UGC-funded programmes, in full-time equivalents — not enrolment, and not headcount. Places on the same universities' self-financed programmes are not included. This covers the universities funded through the University Grants Committee, and only their UGC-funded places. Self-financing institutions — Hong Kong Metropolitan University and the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, for example — and the self-financed programmes those universities also run are not in the UGC's datasets, so they are not listed here.
First-year admissions by place of origin, 2010/11–2025/26
Full-time equivalents. “Non-local” is the UGC's place-of-origin split: students from the Chinese Mainland, other places in Asia and the rest of the world. Where the file has no “rest of the world” row for a university and year, it is shown as “—” and the share is over the rows published. 2012/13 was a double-cohort year: the last A-level and the first HKDSE students entered university together when Hong Kong moved to four-year degrees, so first-year admissions roughly doubled that year.
Non-local share of first-year admissions
| Year | All | Local | Chinese Mainland | Other Asia | Rest of world | Non-local |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 4,912 | 3,270 | 1,022 | 519 | 101 | 33.4% |
| 2024/25 | 4,288 | 3,068 | 790 | 343 | 87 | 28.5% |
| 2023/24 | 4,065 | 3,246 | 578 | 195 | 46 | 20.1% |
| 2022/23 | 4,232 | 3,174 | 761 | 254 | 43 | 25.0% |
| 2021/22 | 3,921 | 2,918 | 758 | 222 | 23 | 25.6% |
| 2020/21 | 3,963 | 3,211 | 475 | 251 | 26 | 19.0% |
| 2019/20 | 3,769 | 3,018 | 361 | 367 | 23 | 19.9% |
| 2018/19 | 3,755 | 2,982 | 391 | 353 | 29 | 20.6% |
| 2017/18 | 3,756 | 3,027 | 387 | 323 | 19 | 19.4% |
| 2016/17 | 3,716 | 3,029 | 364 | 309 | 14 | 18.5% |
| 2015/16 | 3,614 | 3,021 | 340 | 243 | 10 | 16.4% |
| 2014/15 | 3,637 | 3,024 | 341 | 251 | 21 | 16.9% |
| 2013/14 | 3,409 | 2,876 | 330 | 192 | 11 | 15.6% |
| 2012/13double cohort | 6,562 | 5,422 | 744 | 361 | 35 | 17.4% |
| 2011/12 | 3,129 | 2,620 | 295 | 181 | 33 | 16.3% |
| 2010/11 | 3,101 | 2,642 | 283 | 151 | 25 | 14.8% |
Senior-year admissions, 2009/10–2025/26
Senior-year admissions are students admitted directly into a later year of a UGC-funded bachelor's degree rather than its first year, in full-time equivalents. The file lists full-time study only.
| 2025/26 | 392 |
| 2024/25 | 450 |
| 2023/24 | 408 |
| 2022/23 | 414 |
| 2021/22 | 412 |
| 2020/21 | 423 |
| 2019/20 | 415 |
| 2018/19 | 433 |
| 2017/18 | 430 |
| 2016/17 | 417 |
| 2015/16 | 390 |
| 2014/15 | 375 |
| 2013/14 | 350 |
| 2012/13 | 250 |
| 2011/12 | 163 |
| 2010/11 | 157 |
| 2009/10 | 134 |
Staff in academic departments, 2025/26
Headcount. Staff are a headcount of everyone in the university's academic departments, whatever the source of their salary — including posts paid wholly from the university's own self-financed income. It is not a count of teaching staff for UGC-funded students, and no student-to-staff ratio can be drawn from it.
| Grade | Full-time | Part-time | Short-term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Academic Staff | 372 | 11 | 0 |
| Junior Academic Staff | 998 | 6 | 7 |
| Academic Supporting Staff | 837 | 110 | 83 |
| Technical Research Staff | 1,774 | 146 | 829 |
| Administrative, Technical and Other Staff | 2,788 | 93 | 240 |
| All grades | 6,769 | 366 | 1,159 |
1,370 full-time senior and junior academic staff in 2025/26 (1,090 in 2009/10). 3,413 of the 8,294 staff (41.2%) are paid wholly from self-financed income.
Research grants
Research grants are the amounts the UGC lists for each university under each research funding scheme in its file, in HK$ million, for the two academic years in its file. The total is our sum.
| Scheme | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|
| RGC Earmarked Research Grants研究用途補助金 | HK$321.8m | HK$346.1m |
| Theme-based Research Scheme主題研究計劃 | HK$130.9m | HK$115.3m |
| Areas of Excellence Scheme卓越學科領域計劃 | HK$30.9m | HK$21.8m |
| Research Fellowship Schemes研究奬學金計劃 | HK$60.7m | HK$51.6m |
| Research Impact Fund研究影響基金 | HK$16.9m | HK$15.4m |
| Research Matching Grant研究配對補助金 | HK$0.0m | HK$0.0m |
| Strategic Topics Grant策略專題研究資助金 | HK$9.8m | HK$17.5m |
| Co-funding Mechanism on Joint Laboratories with the Chinese Academy of Sciences中國科學院與香港地區聯合實驗室共同資助機制 | HK$1.1m | HK$1.1m |
| Total (our sum) | HK$572.1m | HK$568.8m |
2024/25: HK$568.8m in all.
What it costs
Local students on UGC-funded places pay a tuition fee set by the Government; non-local students pay a higher fee that each university sets. Neither fee is in the open data used here — check the university's own admissions pages.
The other UGC-funded universities: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, The Education University of Hong Kong, Lingnan University
Source: University Grants Committee Secretariat, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region — datasets “First-year-first-degree Student Admissions (Full-time equivalent) of UGC-funded Programmes by University and Place of Origin”, “Senior-year Student Admissions (Full-time equivalent) of UGC-funded Programmes by University and Mode of Study”, “Staff Number (Headcount) in Academic Departments of UGC-funded Universities by Source of Salary Funding, University, Staff Grade and Mode of Employment” and “Research grants for UGC-funded universities”, obtained from DATA.GOV.HK (https://data.gov.hk) and the Common Spatial Data Infrastructure (CSDI) Portal (https://portal.csdi.gov.hk). The intellectual property rights in the data belong to the Government of the Hong Kong SAR and the University Grants Committee. Sums, shares, abbreviations and the selection of years are CollegeMatcher's; CollegeMatcher is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government or the UGC.