Local & Non-local Returning Students
Eligibility for Student Residence
Please read the General Information carefully and thoroughly before you submit your student residence application.
A. Housing Policy
University Grants Committee (UGC)-funded full-time local undergraduate students will have the opportunity to experience one year of hostel life in University accommodation during their studies at the University. Please click HERE for Housing Policy.
B. Student Status
Students must possess a student status of “Normal Study” as defined by the Academic Registry during the stay in the University Accommodation. You may check your student status in BUniPort > Profile > Personal Particulars & Study Record. Students who cease to be classified as “Normal Study” (e.g. taking an internship, suspension of study or leave of absence) will no longer be eligible for University Accommodation and will be required to check out of the Hostels.
C. GPA Requirements for Residents with Second Semester 2024/25 Student Residence Offer Only: Nov 2024 (Except Freshmen and Final Year Students who never resided in the Student Residence)
All residents with Second Semester student residence offer only (except Freshmen and Final Year Students who never resided in the Student Residence) will need to obtain a minimum semester GPA of 2.0 or above for the First Semester of 2024/25. Those who fail to do so will still be allowed to stay in the Student Residence but their Student Residence application for Residential Year 2025/26, if any, will be subject to a minimum semester GPA of 2.0 or above for the Second Semester of 2024/25.
For residents who fail to obtain a minimum semester GPA of 2.0 or above for the First Semester of 2024/25 AND a minimum semester GPA of 2.0 or above for the Second Semester of 2024/25, their student residence applications for Residential Year 2025/26 will not be considered.
Successful Returning Student Residence applicants for Residential Year Second Semester 2024/25 are to be offered Student Residence places for the period below:
Residential Period: 10 January 2024* to 21 May 2025, both nights inclusive (Freshmen)
10 January 2024* to 22 May 2025, both nights inclusive (All Students except Freshmen)
*The actual check-in date may be adjusted. Should there be any changes in the check-in date, we will notify the successful applicants as soon as possible.
Requests for early check-in or late check-out will NOT be considered.
Student Residence offer will be recovered for students who fail to pay the Student Accommodation fees on time or check in within 7 days from the first day of the Student Residence offer period, and they will be deemed to have already stayed in the Hostels during the offer period in their future Student Residence applications.
Application Period : 5 Nov 2024, 12 noon to 15 Nov 2024, 23:59 (HK Time)
Late applications will NOT be accepted!
Change of Student Residence application information is allowed before the application deadline.
An acknowledgement email will be sent to you shortly after you have successfully submitted or edited the Student Residence application. If you do not receive the acknowledgment email, please contact the Student Accommodation Section as soon as possible.
You may also view the Student Residence application procedures at the Hall Application Flow Chart.
Types of Hall Marks
| Marks
|
|---|---|
0 – 40
| |
Year of Residence 2
| 0 mark for students resided for at least 1 year
5 marks for students resided for 1 semester
30 marks for students who never resided before
(for local students only)
|
0 – 20
| |
0 – 40
| |
| Semester GPA 5 | 0 – 5 |
- Based on the travelling time between the dwelling place of parents and the Student Hostels, as provided by the HKeMobility of the Transport Department. Provision of false/inaccurate home address information may lead to disqualification of Student Residence application and recovery of student accommodation offered.
- Successful Student Residence applicants will be deemed to have resided in the Student Hostels during the hall offer period.
- Information to be provided by the Office of Student Affairs and SPEH Department.
- The Resident Master and Residential Life Officer will be responsible for marking for applicants residing in the Student Hostels in the immediate past year based on their attributes.
- Applicants whose Semester GPA in their immediate past Semester is between 2.70 – 2.99 will be awarded 3 marks. Applicants whose Semester GPA in their immediate past Semester is 3.0 or above will be awarded 5 marks.
Student residence application results will be announced via email notification as scheduled below:
2 Dec 2024, 5pm
*tentative date subject to change
Successful student residence applicants should view their student residence allocation and room type assignment HERE. Room assignment are made by individual Halls/Residential College and will be announced HERE in early January 2025.
| Lodging Fees | Local Students | Non-local Students | Non-local Students (Freshmen) | Non-local Students (Non-Freshmen) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-person room in a 4-person unit | $8,329.2 | $8,392.3 | $10,441.2 | $10,520.3 |
| 2-person room in a 5-person unit | $7,920.0 | $7,980.0 | $9,886.8 | $9,961.7 |
| 3-person room in a 5-person unit | $6,006.0 | $6,051.5 | $7,524.0 | $7,581.0 |
| Lodging Fees | Local Students | Non-local Students | Non-local Students (Freshmen) | Non-local Students (Non-Freshmen) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-person room in a 4-person unit | $10,837.2 | $10,919.3 | $13,569.6 | $13,672.4 |
Deferred payment of Student Accommodation Fees is not acceptable. Subject to special prior approval, a penalty of $300 will be levied on students who pay the Student Accommodation Fees after deadline.
Payment Method
A Student Accommodation Fee debit note will be posted in the BUniPort. Please make sure you have input:
1. Bill type, and
2. Debit note number
during your payment process. Direct transfer of money to University bank account is NOT considered as successful payment. Please click HERE for detailed payment methods. You should keep good custody of the payment record and be able to present it upon request.
Students who are not offered a bed space in 2024/25 Second Semester with special circumstances may write to accm_ug@hkbu.edu.hk.
All personal data collected and retained will be used for processing applications, statistical analysis, management of student residences including the enforcement of all its related rules, promotion of activities and notifications, contacting residents and their parents/guardian in case of emergency and such other purposes permissible under the Privacy Policy Statement and Personal Information Collection Statement of the University. Please click HERE for details. You have the right to request access to or correct your personal data kept by the University by logging into the University Cyber Port System (BUniPort) and contacting the relevant Departmental Personal Data Privacy Manager.