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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 2024/25 are to be offered Student Residence places for the period below:
 
28 August 2024 to 21 May 2025, 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 Accommodation fees on time or check in within 7 days from the first day of the Residential 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 : 15 (3pm) - 17 August 2024 (HK Time)
 
Late application and/or late payment will NOT be accepted!
 
Eligible students should submit Student Residence applications HERE. 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 Application Flow Chart.
 
 
Payment of Student Accommodation Fees
 
  1. After you have submitted the Student Residence application, a debit note of Student Residence Deposit will be posted to your Student Residence Application page. Click HERE for details.
  2. 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 lodging fee will be posted in the BUniPort for payment shortly. Please settle the lodging fee payment by the prescribed deadline, otherwise, the hostel 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. 16 September 2024) will result in forfeiture of Student Residence Deposit. User guide on how to update bank account information is available HERE.
  3. Payment of Student Residence Deposit after the payment due date will NOT be accepted.
Student Residence Marks for local freshmen are given as shown in the table below:
 
Types of Student Residence Marks
Marks
0 – 40
Note
1. Based on the travelling time between the dwelling place of parents and the Student Residence, as provided by the HKeMobility system of the Transport Department. Provision of false/inaccurate home address information may lead to disqualification of student residence application and recovery of hostel places offered.
2. To avoid any ambiguity in parameter setting, the "Departure Time" will be set to be 8am on the first day of student residence application (15 Aug 2024), i.e. Thursday for all applicants for calculation of travelling time.

Student Residence application result will be announced via email notification on 23 Aug 2024, 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 hostel place are required to submit an online Student Residence Appeal Application with supporting documents HERE by 29 August 2024, 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.