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#Deadlines

3 pages carry this tag, across: Admission & application, Halls & campus, Visa & immigration.

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Essential 🎯 Admission & application

Admission routes: how Mainland Gaokao direct admission works

From the 2026 academic year CityU admits Mainland Gaokao students through its own “Mainland Gaokao direct admission” scheme — it does not take part in the unified national enrolment and does not use one of your JEE choices. Read the process and the deadlines here first.

#Admission routes#Mainland Gaokao#Direct admission#Unified enrolmentStudentsParents
Essential 🛂 Visa & immigration

Student visa: ID995A, HK$600 and eight weeks

The first thing to do after an offer. The form, the administrative fee, the processing time and proof of funds, all in one place.

#Student visa#Entry permit#ID995A#Exit-entry D endorsementStudentsParents
Essential 🏠 Halls & campus

Where you live: how to apply for a hall place in your first two years

Non-local undergraduates have priority for a hall place in their first two years, at HK$20,800 a year for a double room. The application window is only three weeks — miss it and it is gone.

#Halls#Hall fee#Hall application#Ma On ShanStudentsParents