Local Freshmen
All full-time UGC-funded UG students are eligible for on-campus housing in accordance with the Housing Policy.
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 Student Residence.
Please read the General Information carefully and thoroughly before you submit your Student Residence application.
Successful Student Residence applicants for the Residential Year of 2025/26 are to be offered Student Residence places for the period below:
27 August 2025 to 20 May 2026, both nights inclusive
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 Residence 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 Student Residence during the offer period in their future Student Residence applications.
Application and Payment Period : 13 August (3pm) - 15 August 2025 (11:59pm, HK Time)
Late application and/or late payment 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.
Payment of Student Residence Fees
After you have submitted the Student Residence application, a debit note of Student Residence Deposit will be posted to your Application page. Click HERE for details.
Read the debit note and follow the payment instruction to settle the Student Residence Deposit before the payment due date.
For successful applicants, another debit note for the Student Residence Fees will be posted in the BUniPort for payment shortly. Please settle the Student Residence Fees by the prescribed deadline, otherwise, the Student Residence place offered to you will be recovered and the Student Residence Deposit paid will be forfeited. The Student Residence Deposit paid during the application period will be converted to one’s Caution Money for their period of residence.
For waitlisted and unsuccessful applicants, refund of Student Residence Deposit (if applicable) will be arranged only via autopay to the Hong Kong bank account as you provided in the BUniPort. You are responsible to ensure the bank account information is correct. Failure to do so by the stated deadline (i.e. 15 September 2025) will result in forfeiture of Student Residence Deposit. User guide on how to update bank account information is available HERE.Payment of Student Residence Deposit after the payment due date will NOT be accepted.
| Types of Student Residence Marks | Marks |
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0 – 40
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Student Residence application result will be announced via email notification on 22 Aug 2025, 5pm. Successful student residence applicants should view their student residence allocation and room type assignment HERE. Room assignments are made by individual Student Residence and the results will be announced HERE in due course.
Student Residence applicants who are not successful in the Student Residence Application but have any special circumstances that wish to be considered for a Student Residence place are required to submit an online Student Residence Appeal Application with supporting documents HERE by 28 August 2025, 5pm.
All personal data collected and retained will be used for processing applications, statistical analysis, management of student residence 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 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.