Hong Kong

Entry requirements

• Undergraduate

  For admission onto the first year of an undergraduate bachelors degree course we generally accept the following qualifications and grades:

  • 香港中學文憑 (Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE)) with a minimum grade of 5, 4, 4
  • International Baccalaureate Diploma with a range of 28 – 30

  We also accept students who have completed a US high school curriculum.

  We sometimes require subject specific grades, we will advise you of this in your offer letter.

  If you wish to study with us starting from the second or final year, we are happy to consider applicants who have completed equivalent prior study. These applications are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please email global@hull.ac.uk for further details.

  If you have questions about these requirements or have studied a qualification or foundation programme not listed here, please email global@hull.ac.uk. 

• Postgraduate Taught

  The majority of our taught Masters programmes require that you hold a qualification equivalent to a lower second-class Bachelor Honours (or 2.2). Please check our course pages for specific entry requirements.

  We generally accept Bachelor Honours degree or Bachelor degree in medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine awarded by a nationally recognised higher education institution in Hong Kong to be comparable to a UK Bachelor Honours degree.

  Degree classification directly compares to that in the UK. We accept Second Class (Division 2) Honours for programmes requiring 2.2 and Second Class (Division 1) Honours for programmes with 2.1 entry requirement. 

  Don't quite meet the requirements? Don't worry - we review every application on an individual basis. Email global@hull.ac.uk.

• Postgraduate Research

  The majority of our research Masters programmes and PhDs require that you hold a qualification equivalent to an upper second-class Bachelor Honours (or 2.1), although some programmes, especially PhDs may have higher entry requirements. Please check our course pages for specific entry requirements.

  We generally accept Bachelor Honours degree or Bachelor degree in medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine awarded by a nationally recognised higher education institution in Hong Kong to be comparable to a UK Bachelor Honours degree.

  Degree classification directly compares to that in the UK. We accept Second Class (Division 1) Honours for programmes with 2.1 entry requirement and First Class Honours for programmes requiring British First Class Honours degree for entry. 

  Don't quite meet the requirements? Don't worry - we review every application on an individual basis. Email global@hull.ac.uk.

• Foundation

  For Business, Law and Engineering courses

  Our Business, Law and Engineering foundation courses are run by our partner ONCAMPUS Hull. For further information regarding entry qualifications please see the ONCAMPUS website.  

  For all other foundation courses:

  For admission onto our foundation course we generally accept the following qualifications and grades:

  •  香港中學文憑 (Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE)) with a minimum grade of 3, 4, 4

If your first language is not English, or you require a Tier 4 student visa to study, you will be required to provide evidence of your English language proficiency level. Find out more.