NO. Providing softcopies will suffice at the stage of application. Applicants are recommended to upload the supporting documents to the online application system. You will be required to send the original / certified true copies of the transcript(s), IELTS report and other documents requested by the Faculty only after you have been given an offer.

The complete/up-to-date transcript(s) of your undergraduate and, if applicable, postgraduate study; Your personal statement, if any; and Your curriculum vitae (CV). In some cases, the Programme will email the applicants to ask for a clearer version of the documents.

An applicant who is seeking admission on the basis of a qualification from a university or comparable institution outside Hong Kong of which the language of teaching and/or examination is not English is required to satisfy the English language requirements. For details regarding the admission requirements, please refer to the following website: https://admissions.hku.hk/tpg/admissions-requirements *Exemptions* Applicants who are studying in a non-English speaking country / region but hold a undergraduate degree of which the language of teaching is fully in English shall provide a testimonial or a certified proof issued by the Registry of the university / institution. If you have completed a Master’s degree in Hong Kong and other English-speaking countries, you have to provide the transcript of the Master’s degree to be exempted from providing examination results of satisfying the English language requirements.

NO! Only examinations listed in the following website are accepted: https://admissions.hku.hk/tpg/admissions-requirements

YES, provided that you can provide the complete transcript by the end of August. Meanwhile, you shall provide the current up-to-date transcript by uploading to the online application system.

Applicants need not submit any recommendation letter(s). If you want to invite your referee(s) to write a recommendation, kindly provide the information of your referee(s) when filling in the online application form. An invitation email will be sent from the online reference system to the referees(s). Please note that the invitation links will be expired within two weeks. The applicants shall be responsible for reminding their referee(s) to fill in the online reference report by the deadline. They have the right to change the referee(s) by editing the information of the referee(s) on the online reference system. The Program does not have the right to do so. If your referee(s) has forgotten to fill in the form by the deadline, you still can try to contact the Program to see if any remedies can be made.

There is no fixed date of releasing the ‘result’, although all applicants shall receive an email from the Faculty regarding the status of application by late July or early August each year. If you have not received any email after completing the application form and settling the application fees, it implies that you have not been shortlisted at that moment. Hence, please check the email you have provided in the application form from time to time.

It is possible that applicants are invited to attend an admission interview.

You will be invited to an admission interview in the form of email. You may be given an offer after the interview and the Program will confirm with you again if you really want to be admitted.

You will have to settle the first installments when you receive the official offer, usually in the form of email, from the Faculty.

Earlier shortlisted applicants usually have to wait until January of an academic year to receive the offer email sent by the Faculty. Otherwise, the process will take around 2 months or more after the interview or after you have been shortlisted.

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