Application Procedures

Applications for admission can be made through either on-line application (appl. fee: HK$100) or paper form application (appl. fee: HK$200).

Applications are accepted throughout the year and will be considered in two rounds annually. The application deadlines for 2009 are as follows:

Admission Round	Application Deadline	Announcement of Results
1st Round	31 January 2009	Early April 2009
2nd Round	30 April 2009	Early July 2009

Applications submitted after the application deadline will normally be considered in the next admission round.

Applicants can apply for admission as government-funded or self-financing students. Final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students who are expected to complete their studies in 2009 can also apply in the above two admissions rounds; a conditional offer may be granted to suitable applicants.

Applicants are strongly advised to discuss their proposed research area with the relevant coordinator before submitting an application.

To apply for admission to a research degree programme, applicants are required to submit the following to the Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies:

1.	completed application form; and
2.	application fee payment; and
3.	two photocopies of the following supporting documents: a. a research proposal with clear objectives and proposed methodology. For applicants to the following Faculty/School, please refer to the respective guidelines for preparing a research proposal: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences School of Creative Media School of Law b. official certificates and transcripts of academic qualifications. (Certificates and transcripts that are not in English should be accompanied by a formal certified translation in English.) [Applicants who obtained degrees from institutions that gave degree classification and/or grade point average but are not shown in the certificate or transcript are required to also send copies of any other official documents that indicated their formal degree classification or grade point average.] c. certificates of professional qualifications, if applicable. (Certificates that are not in English should be accompanied by a formal certified translation in English.) d. (in support of the applicant's publication record, if applicable) the front page of the papers (for papers that have been published) or the letter of acceptance (for papers that have been accepted for publication). [Applicants to the School of Law must also submit a self-assessment (of not more than 400 words) of their publications together with full copies of their best three publications. Where any publication so submitted is in a language other than English, it must be accompanied by an abstract in English.] e. international English language test results, if applicable. [For TOEFL results, applicants may send in a copy of their score record or arrange with the TOEFL service centre to send the record directly to the University (Institution Code: 3401).]

Applicants are also required to nominate two academic referees who can comment on their academic performances (proposed supervisor and persons from non-academic circles are normally not acceptable as academic referees). Please send the Referee's Report Form to the referees and invite them to complete the form and return it directly to the Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies under confidential cover.

Please note that incomplete submission may delay the processing of the application.

To facilitate verification of academic qualifications, students admitted onto research degree programmes may be required to arrange for the relevant institutions to send the University an original copy of their official transcript for the bachelor's and/or postgraduate degree(s) they have obtained.

For CityU staff seeking admission to a research degree programme, normal admission procedures will apply.

Academic staff (including Teaching Fellows and Instructors) of the University are not allowed to pursue a research degree in their own Department/School under the supervision of colleagues from the same Department/School.