I am currently a student of HKU and I came from Sabah. I am doing the double degree which consist of Engineering as my primary (Complete within 3 yrs) and Business (2nd degree to be taken in 4th year).

For your info, Hku ranked 18 in the world by times 2007, which is the 2nd top in asia, just after tokyo u. For the 2008 ranking, Hku ranked 26 in the world, which is the 3rd in asia, after tokyo u , and kyoto u .

For Hku, the most demanding course is the Actuarial science, followed by medicine, law , business , and science related courses. If I am not wrong, the department of business is the largest in the whole uni, around 7 in 10 of the international students are studying business related subjects (I consider myself one of them, since I am doing the double degree).

For comparison, Hku is good in medicine, law, Business, and some science related course.
Hkust is good in engineering, all science related subjects, and business. But from what I know, most of the students from Hkust are facing extreme stress from their learning, this is because of their extremely strict curricula requirement and heavy workloads. Imagine, a uni which established in 1991 and climb up to top 50 in the world uni ranking, all within 20 yrs, and you will figure out how stress the uni is. But for reputation, Hku is the best, follow by cuhk, and hkust. And for the employment rate, Hku is the highest because it is the oldest, with tons of graduates and alumni.

For Malaysian student, they accept A-level , Stpm , and UEC . They admit international students using the Non-Jupas scheme, where applicants need to register online through the uni website.

If you want any further info, just pm me. I am the student ambassador of the uni, I am always happy to help.

This post has been edited by chen9wei: Jan 5 2009, 10:13 PM

they are very generous at providing scholarship. Most of my international friends got either their full or partial scholarship but not me. I get admitted with A-level AAB . They are more strict in choosing the students in Faculty of business, since most of the best mind opt to study for that course.

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Added on January 5, 2009, 10:45 pmActually, Hkust is good in science related subjects. For the ranking, I think it is based on the MBA program, which is of little influence with the BBA. As far as i know, most of the top scorer of HKALE (HK A-level) will opt for either medicine or Business. There is one program in the Faculty of business called International Business And Global Management, where they only recruit around 20 - 25 students each year, and each of the students will spend one year in asia (Hk) , one year in Americe , and one year in Europe. This will make them become the best of the best, since they will have the experience in the world's 3 largest financial hub. And for your info, this program is designed for the best of the best, the vacancies are even less than the medicine, and only those top scorer will dare to apply.

http://www.fbe.hku.hk/programme/undergraduate/ibgm/

This post has been edited by chen9wei: Jan 5 2009, 10:45 PM

For the fees, Hk should be more expensive, $100,000 per year for HKU. But you can take as many courses as you want, as long as you can manage all your time. For accommodation, if you live in hall, fees is $9000 per year, extremely cheap. But if you plan to stay outside, $8000 per month, my previous roommate was a german and he decided to stay outside.

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Added on May 9, 2009, 2:18 amfor each meal, expect it to be more than Rm10, but below Rm20.

This post has been edited by chen9wei: May 9 2009, 02:18 AM

Hk is nothing related to Malaysia. I can't see why you can get the fees discount. HKU will only reward students in term of scholarship with good results.

Hi, yeah, I am IS alumni. What are you going to study in HK ? And which uni ? For uni decision, I think the most important is the overall ranking, despite Harvard is not good in engineering, but you will woow if found some engineering graduate from there. For HKU, i think the strength is on medicine, law, science, and business. As for the business, the uni has just start a program which combine London Business School, Colombia Business school, and HKU itself. They claimed it is the best program for EMBA program. (Verify please)

And for UST , their strength is on Business program and engineering. Just imagine a uni with less than 20 years of history but successfully climb up to top 50 in the world, what kind of study environment and materials they provide.

For Cuhk, I am not quite familiar with it, but it often ranked 2nd in hk after HKU. And some of the case, cuhk did perform better than hku. In terms of school compound, cuhk is the biggest.

And this is not the 1st time i been ask why i pick HKU instead of UK, since I have been offered a place in imperial college, UCL, etc. My answer is that, as we are from sabah, why should we pick a place with full of trees and shops which close at 5pm ? What I want is tall building, fast pace, extremely convenient traffic, near to city (HKU to central only need 5 minutes), shops almost close at 10 pm and some even never close, and place where we wont get discriminate but respect. I found it all in HK.


Mainlanders in HK are not the same with mainlanders in UK ( as my friends in UK told me). As mainlanders here are the best of the best of the high school grad in mainland.


They study hard, study smart, and frankly, their use of english is some time on par with the native english speaker. They dominate all the top places in uni.

http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/5/8/21/n1025978.htm

http://big5.china.com.cn/chinese/OP-c/1273295.htm

This post has been edited by chen9wei: May 10 2009, 04:46 PM

I know someone who is doing law in CUHK , but she is graduating this year. For sabahan, In hku only me and a girl who is doing dentistry. But for Malaysian, there are like 10-20 of us. Most of them do business related course particularly Econ and Finance and Acc and Finance. For CUHK, it is situated in northern part of New territory, near to Shenzhen. But in terms of environment, UST and CUHK are better compare to HKU because of the campus is bigger and further away from the city. HKU is just too near to central, and hence Lan Kwai Fong. and make the land there expensive.

Can you guest, how much is the price of apartment on the top floor of this building cost ?
http://www.belcher.com.hk/



And this is not the most expensive one.

This post has been edited by chen9wei: May 10 2009, 05:50 PM

BOFA tower = Bank of America tower ? I thought that was the place for working ?

For the teaching, the medium is all in English, except linguistic course for sure. When I first came to HK, I thought they will either apply the Western or australia style, which is honeymoon for the 1st year, if not first sem. I tend to expect things to be extremely relax at least for the 1st week of teaching, as we have encounter in most of the Malaysia style teaching. But to my surprise, the lesson start instantly after several brief introduction, and I found difficulties even for the 1st lecture, due to the fact that hk students spend 7 years in high school whereas we only spend 6. There is no honeymoon for engineering students, especially for me who do double degree. All the text book here are from US, and cost around 250 - 300 per book. I am not sure for your case since you are doing law, maybe UK textbook.

For engineering courses, especially those related to math (particularly pure math), you can expect a bored and tiring class, but for business class, there are always in class participation, looking at the stock market inside class, analyzing the market trend, and lots and lots of presentation that will require you to wear in formal. Make sure you bring enough suit for the presentation and high table if you reside in hall.


As far as I know, dentistry in hku is different with the medicine, cause medicine has their own campus which is nearby and supported by queen mary hospital. I can't provide you with much details about dentistry, but you can expect the qualification is recognized throughout the world. And I know one Malaysian from penang studying medicine here, perhaps i can ask him to give u some info.

Perhaps this is something you guys should proud about. Official news still haven't publish in the official website, but we received the email from vice chancellor, congratulating all for the efforts we put in.

http://mag.udn.com/mag/campus/storypage.js...f_ART_ID=193964


Hk dominates 3 out of 5 places in asia region, and to my surprise, Hku beat tokyo u for the 1st time.

This post has been edited by chen9wei: May 12 2009, 07:19 AM