Mainland students sign up for the number of Hong Kong universities. Experts: Hong Kong colleges and universities are still attractive

[Global Times reporter Chen Qingqing Global Times special reporter Yang Weimin Yu Feng in Hong Kong] Not long after the college entrance examination just ended, major colleges and universities in Hong Kong are also following the path of further studies in mainland students. According to the Hong Kong "Sing Tao Daily" reported on the 15th, many Hong Kong universities' registration work is nearing completion. As the new crown pneumonia epidemic is raging worldwide, many mainland students who originally wanted to study overseas are now transferred to Hong Kong. Experts believe that after the "repair storm" in 2019, it is not surprising that Hong Kong colleges and universities have risen to register in the Mainland, because similar violence will not be repeated, and Hong Kong colleges and universities still have continuous attractiveness.

There is a school competition rate of 1/20

According to the "Sing Tao Daily" report, as of last Friday, Baptist University has received more than 2,500 mainland students to apply for registration, an increase of 50 % over the same period last year. ) Bachelor of Bachelor of Business Administration is more popular, with the most applicants in Guangdong, Shandong and Sichuan Province. There are 113 undergraduates who have admitted to the college entrance examination in the school year. The number of recruiters in the next school year is expected, that is, the average of 23 people compete for a place.

Lingnan University, which had been registered last Thursday, said that the next school year planned to choose about 70 undergraduates in the Mainland, and received a total of about 1950 applications, that is, the average of 28 people competed for a place. Applicants are also mainly based on the three places of Guangdong, Lu, and Sichuan, and are the most popular courses such as business administrative bachelors, data sciences and economics.

The University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have stated that the number of mainland students applied for this year has increased year by year. Among them, most applicants from the University of Science and Technology from Guangdong Province are expected to recruit 190 mainland students across the country and conduct online interviews in late July. The Chinese University and Urban University will adopt the "National Unified Admissions Plan for Ordinary Universities in the Country" to admit undergraduates in the Mainland in advance in 31 provinces. Among them, it is expected to recruit about 300 students. The total number of enrollment is 220.

Scholarship attracts mainland students

Many Hong Kong universities have provided a lot of generous scholarships in order to attract mainland college candidates. For example, Mainland students in the University of Hong Kong have registered on the 28th of this month. A reporter from the Global Times consulted its official website and found that the school is expected to recruit 300 mainland undergraduate students in 2022, and apply for any major in civil and sciences in Hong Kong University. According to reports, the tuition fees for non -local students who enrolled in 2021 to study in the first undergraduate degree in Hong Kong University were HK $ 171,000 per year, and the accommodation and living expenses were about 70,000 Hong Kong dollars per year. The full scholarships of the University of Hong Kong will cover all tuition fees during the study period, and at the same time continue to provide overseas learning opportunities and exclusive scholarships for elite students who have entered the University of Hong Kong through the "Mingde Student". The top 1%of mainland elite high school students admitted to the University of Hong Kong every year are expected to receive this honor.

Other Hong Kong universities also have scholarships to attract mainland students. Among them, the mainland students with outstanding results provide a full scholarship of HK $ 195,000 per year and a half scholarship of HK $ 97,500 per year. In addition to providing full scholarships, there is a living allowance of HK $ 50,000 each year. In addition, the eight colleges and universities in Hong Kong can adopt the "excess enrollment" form to admit non -local students to take public fund -funded bachelor's degree courses. In the 2021/22 school year, more than 13,000 non -local students who funded the bachelor's degree courses, accounting for nearly 18%of public funding funding, and 65%of the non -local students.

There was a trough

In 2003, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, 8 public universities such as Hong Kong University and the Chinese University of China officially recruited undergraduate students to recruit self -funded undergraduates for the mainland, but the scope of enrollment was limited to 6 provinces and cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Fujian. In 2005, the mainland provinces that opened enrollment from Hong Kong Schools increased to 17, which has continued to expand. In 2007, the number of students enrolled in Hong Kong in the Mainland climbed nearly 1,400 people. The "Hong Kong school fever" was all the rage. The college entrance examinations of some provinces went to Hong Kong to study, forming a situation in which Hong Kong universities challenged Peking University and Tsinghua University.

Around 2008, the "Hong Kong School Fever" once cooled down. The high scores, expensive tuition, and capacity of Hong Kong universities made some candidates "know difficulties". However, there are still many students who apply for high scores for Hong Kong universities. For example, in 2012, Hong Kong University received a total of 12,438 Mainland biological reports and 363 admitters. 10 of them are provincial champions. This trend immediately changed again in 2013 -Liaoning College Entrance Examination No. 1 Liu Dingning won the college entrance examination after a break from the University of Hong Kong University. Differences in universities in the Mainland. In 2019, the "repair storm" broke out in Hong Kong and the new crown pneumonia. Hong Kong universities also faced various pressures.

Internationalization is still attractive

However, the statistics released by the Hong Kong Education Bureau in May 2021 show that the six of the eight schools of Hong Kong include the "proportion of all students in the mainland" of the "Mainland students" of the University of Cities, Lingda, China University, Richard University, HKUST, and Hong Kong University. Among them, Hong Kong University's proportion is the highest, with 3423 people, accounting for 16.7%; followed by the University of China, 3044, accounting for 14.8%.

Zhang Huifang, director of Lingda Academic Affairs, said that the increase in the number of applicants is increasing, which is severe with the overseas epidemic. Parents in the Mainland are not assured that students live overseas alone and the mainland students have completed their undergraduates. Models and studying independently. After graduation, parents will be more assured of their children to go to more places to study. "She said that the university emphasizes the common integration system and regularly organizes activities in the dormitory to allow students in different regions to integrate naturally. A survey of "Hong Kong School in your eyes" shows that 78.37%of the investigators said that they had the idea of ​​entering Hong Kong universities, and the most important reason for the reason why it was so popular in mainland students was that Hong Kong's "Chinese and Western culture combined in China and Western culture combined Environment ", this proportion reached 65.62%. At the same time, Hong Kong's international teaching has laid the foundation for some students to apply to study abroad in the future.

"Global Times" reporter asked several mainland graduates who participated in the college entrance examination this year. Some of them had signed up for universities in Hong Kong. The main reason was that "it can be registered directly with college entrance examination results, which is very convenient." In addition, there are students who apply for Hong Kong schools to say that if there is a chance during the undergraduate period, I hope to apply for exchange students and other projects through the school. Most students who are interested in Hong Kong universities believe that there are two layers of reasons for going to study abroad directly. One is to worry about the epidemic. Studying in school or further studies in other countries, there are still more choices.

Deng Fei, a member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and vice chairman of the Federation of Education, said in an interview with the Global Times reporter that although the "black storm" in 2019 has scared many students, it has always existed for studying in Hong Kong. Essence Especially in some universities and disciplines that are not too high, it is said that more than 20 people compete for one position. In Deng Fei's view, this is also very rare.

Deng Fei believes that the Western world is not friendly to Chinese college students, and more and more restrictions are. Some parents of students are more worried about overseas social security. Taking into account these factors, Hong Kong still has continuous attraction to mainland students. Deng Fei believes that if Hong Kong further liberalized the proportion of local and non-local students (currently 80%-20%), then the number of mainland students will be surged in the future. As for the phenomenon of "black storms" in 2019, Deng Fei believes that there is no need to worry about similar situations at all, because it will be "not a climate".

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