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Studying in Hong Kong

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4
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112
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112
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StudyPath lists 4 universities in Hong Kong and 112 courses between them. The cheapest verified fee is about US$27,288 a year, at CUHK. 4 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-09-30.

Filter these 4 universitiesAll 112 courses, cheapest first

What the fee figure leaves out

A published fee is not what you pay

13 courses here, across 1 university, carry a sourced note about a cost the headline figure does not include — a compulsory contribution, an income-tested scale, an annual increase that applies from year two, a rule about who qualifies. The most widely shared of them:

PolyU prints the two undergraduate rates side by side on its fees page: HKD49,500 per academic year for local students and HKD240,000 for non-local students, which is the rate recorded above. The same page puts average spending for a non-local student at around HKD330,272 per academic year: tuition HK$240,000, university-managed accommodation HK$18,515 (the…

“Tuition Fee (Local Students) HKD49,500 per academic year Tuition Fee (Non-local Students) HKD240,000 per academic year”

PolyU · read from Fees (UG) | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Open any course on that page to see the sentence it came from.

What it costs

Annual international tuition, converted to US dollars so the two ends compare. The published figure in its own currency is the authoritative one.

Cheapest

US$27,288a year

CUHK

Dearest

US$79,059a year

CUHK

What it costs to live

Student housing published by the university itself or by the body that runs its halls, cheapest first. Shown in the currency and period each one publishes — not converted, because a converted rent is a worse number than the real one.

  • CUHKHong KongHK$13,460–HK$21,874per year
  • HKUHong KongHK$17,290–HK$37,940per year

How Hong Kong compares with other countries

Ranked against every other country on StudyPath. Countries charge in different currencies, so these figures are converted to US dollars and are approximate; the published figure, in its own currency, is on each university's page.

 Hong KongAmong countriesRange across countries
Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything~US$27,300at CUHKHighest of 64 countries~US$207 (France) to ~US$27,300 (Hong Kong)
Tuition-free degrees we listpublished at zero for international studentsNone7 countries have some931 in Germany at most
Cheapest student housing a university publishesfor a year, from the lowest rate on its own site~US$1,700at CUHK39th lowest of 66 countriesFree (Saudi Arabia) to ~US$12,000 (Iceland)

Converted to US dollars at the site's exchange rates of 13 Sept 2026. A fee or rent published per term, month or week is scaled to a year, and housing is counted for twelve months of holding the room. The living-cost figure is what an immigration authority requires a student visa applicant to show, taken as a year; the UK's, for example, covers at most nine months, so this overstates it. See student finance for each country's exact wording.

Universities in Hong Kong

Ranked universities first, then the rest by how many courses they publish. Unranked never means worse — it means QS has not measured it.