📖 About the university

Hong Kong Shue Yan University is a private, non-profit liberal-arts university located in North Point on Hong Kong Island, founded in 1971 by Dr Henry Hu Hung-lick and Dr Chung Chi Yung as Shue Yan College to widen access to higher education for local secondary-school leavers. On 19 December 2006 it was renamed Hong Kong Shue Yan University by order of the Chief Executive in Council, becoming the first private university ever recognised in Hong Kong. The university is organised into three faculties, the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, and the Faculty of Social Sciences, offering honours degrees through departments that include Chinese Language and Literature, English, History, Journalism and Communication, Business Administration, Economics and Finance, Law and Business, Social Work, Sociology, and Counselling and Psychology. It has historically retained a distinctive four-year honours-degree structure and a strong liberal-arts ethos rooted in Confucian ideas of moral education, and it maintains a residential college atmosphere unusual among Hong Kong institutions. The university enrols a substantial number of students from mainland China and overseas and teaches in a mix of Cantonese, English and Putonghua. Its combination of private-university heritage, small class sizes and strengths in journalism, psychology and Chinese studies makes it well suited to students seeking a personalised, humanities-oriented education in a major international city.

🎯 Fields of study

🏛️ Colleges & schools

🌆 About Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of the world's leading international financial centres and a Special Administrative Region of China, famed for its harbour skyline, dense mix of Cantonese and global culture, and efficient public transport. Hong Kong Shue Yan University sits in North Point on the north shore of Hong Kong Island, a busy, well-connected district a short ride from Causeway Bay and the central business area.

💰 Fees & costs

💡 General estimates for international students in China; they vary by major and university, and the official figure is always on the university website.

🛂 Visa requirements by nationality

These are the general steps for the China student visa (X1/X2); details vary by the Chinese embassy in your country.