CityUHK Undergraduate Programme Catalogue (Part 2): College of Science, Veterinary Medicine, Creative Media, Energy and Environment, Law and Double Degrees

This article continues from the Undergraduate Programme Catalogue (Part 1), which explains the 8.5-point conversion rule and lists the programmes of the College of Biomedical Sciences, the College of Business, the College of Computing, the College of Engineering and CLASS. This part (2) covers the College of Science, the Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences (Veterinary Medicine), the School of Creative Media, the School of Energy and Environment, the School of Law and four cross-college double degree programmes — their JUPAS codes, scoring formulas and 2025 admission scores.

Data basis: 2026 Entry — drawn from the CityU Admissions Office official document Admission Score Formula and Admissions Scores for 2026 JUPAS (version dated 7 January 2026). Admission scores in the tables are statistics for students actually admitted in 2025 Entry and are for reference only; CityU states explicitly that "because of different subject weightings across programmes, scores cannot be compared across programmes or across years."

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# 1. College of Science

JS1200 (GREAT) is not an ordinary "add-on class" — it is the College of Science's flagship option. According to the College of Science GREAT official page^※, GREAT took its first cohort in the 2021/22 academic year. It is a four-year programme; incoming students first complete a year of "common curriculum" before freely choosing one of the three major streams — Chemistry, Computing Mathematics or Physics — from Year 2 onward^※. From Year 2, students begin independent research under a senior faculty mentor, and additionally take entrepreneurship courses, at least one semester of overseas exchange, and a summer internship at a local laboratory or tech start-up. Eligible local students may be granted guaranteed admission to a relevant research postgraduate degree in the College of Science; high-performing applicants can automatically receive a flagship scholarship covering full or half of tuition and accommodation fees, and may apply for up to HK$500,000 in support for a one-year overseas exchange. The College of Science partners with the Federation of Hong Kong Industries (FHKI) to provide GREAT students with industry mentors and internship pipelines. This "research + entrepreneurship + overseas" three-in-one design echoes the School of Energy and Environment's flagship option (JS1050 INSPIRE, below) — both are concrete cases of CityU institutionalising experiential learning into undergraduate curricula in recent years (for the concept of experiential learning, see graduate-outcomes.md).

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# 2. Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences

JS1801 Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (BVM) is the only veterinary undergraduate programme in Hong Kong (established by CityU in collaboration with Cornell University in the United States). Its JUPAS median admission score is not the highest in the University, but the programme has strict prerequisite requirements in Biology and Chemistry, and tuition is far higher than for ordinary programmes (see tuition-and-scholarships.md); an interview is also held during admission, and mainland gaokao applicants to the veterinary programme must undergo an interview as well (see nonlocal-mainland-international.md).

This table lists only the JUPAS path's scores and formula. In reality, the other three routes into BVM — non-JUPAS (IB/A-Level), mainland gaokao, and postgraduate conversion — each have their own independent thresholds, and all applicants (regardless of route) must additionally clear four non-academic assessments: proof of 70 hours of animal experience, an 800-word application statement, the CASPer situational judgement test, and a multiple mini interview (MMI). For a full breakdown of this mechanism, see the companion article Comprehensive Guide to CityU Veterinary Admissions; the six-year curriculum and the academic structure of the Cornell collaboration are covered in The Veterinary College: An Academic Profile.

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# 3. School of Creative Media (SCM)

CityU's School of Creative Media is one of the pioneers of creative media higher education in Asia, spanning art and technology; its undergraduate programmes recognise certain "Category B Applied Learning subjects" as electives for scoring purposes (per note 1 of the official PDF).

According to the School's website^※, the School of Creative Media was the first school of its kind in the region, housed in a purpose-built building designed by the renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. Its stated mission is to nurture "interdisciplinary artists and creative media professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit"; as of early 2026 it has been operating for about 25 years, with courses spanning more than 30 directions including animation, game design, AR/VR/MR, digital fabrication and sound art, and it regards itself as "a leading school of its kind in Asia." JS1040 (CREATE) is the School's flagship option for JUPAS applicants; the other three degrees (BA/BSc Creative Media, BAS New Media) differentiate along art, technology and applied orientations (corresponding to JS1042/JS1043/JS1044 in the table above). All four share the same "Best 5 (incl. Eng); Eng ×2" scoring formula; the differences lie mainly in lower-quartile scores and curriculum content, not in the admission thresholds themselves.

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# 4. School of Energy and Environment (SEE)

Owing to the heavy weighting (Maths and science ×2.5), SEE programmes show generally higher nominal scores (JS1051 median 40.5), which are not directly comparable with "absolute grades."

JS1050 (INSPIRE) is the School of Energy and Environment's flagship option. According to the School's official page^※, the option took its first cohort in the 2025/26 academic year, built by "expanding" on the two existing departmental majors, Energy Science and Engineering (ESE) and Environmental Science and Engineering (EVE). New students enter as "undeclared majors," take a common first-year curriculum, and can freely choose the ESE or EVE major at the end of Year 1, with no selection hurdle. Compared with ordinary ESE/EVE students, INSPIRE students must complete more credits (at least 128 for an ESE major, at least 129 for an EVE major) in exchange for stronger overseas exchange, internship, research and entrepreneurship training packages — a "common first year + delayed stream selection" design identical to the College of Science's GREAT (JS1200).

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# 5. School of Law

CityU's School of Law is one of three law schools in Hong Kong offering a common-law LLB; the research/postgraduate Juris Doctor (JD) is not recruited through JUPAS and therefore has no JS code. The law programme sets a higher English threshold for mainland gaokao applicants (English must be ≥135), see nonlocal-mainland-international.md.

What does the study path look like after JS1061? The LLB is only the first step toward qualifying as a solicitor or barrister in Hong Kong. According to the School's official page^※, CityU's School of Law was founded in 1987, making it the second law school in Hong Kong. The LLB is a full-time four-year programme; graduates who wish to practise must first complete a one-year full-time (or two-year part-time) Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL)^※. To apply for the PCLL, one must hold an LLB/JD from CityU, HKU, CUHK or an overseas common-law jurisdiction, pass nine core subjects plus three "supplementary" Hong Kong law subjects, and achieve an overall IELTS (Academic) score of 7.0 or above. After completing the PCLL, those intending to become barristers must complete a six-month pupillage before they may be admitted to practise.

Since 2007, the School has offered the Global Legal Education and Awareness Project (G-LEAP)^※, enabling students to attend courses at the Oxford University Faculty of Law in the summer — one of the earliest overseas exchange pipelines established among local law schools.

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# 6. Double Degree Programmes

CityU offers several cross-college JUPAS double-degree programmes; graduates receive two degrees:

Double degrees are not "two degrees in four years" — they are five-year programmes. Take JS1062 (Law + Accountancy) as an example. According to the Department of Accountancy's official page^※, the programme is studied over five years, and the credits required far exceed those of an ordinary single-degree programme (typically around 120 credits over four years); the portion exceeding the normal 144 credits of a four-year programme, as well as credits taken in the fifth year and beyond, are charged at self-financing rates^※ — that is, the first four years' tuition is charged at the UGC-funded rate, while the fifth year attracts a separate self-financing fee. This "four years funded, fifth year self-financed" structure is the key to understanding the actual total tuition of a double-degree programme, and differs from the single-degree "one price for four years" model. Before applying, cross-check the latest self-financing tuition rates against Tuition and Admission Scholarships. The four double-degree programmes span four college combinations — environmental engineering + finance, law + accountancy, crime science + law, and computer science + fintech — reflecting CityU's recent push toward cross-college composite talent development. Unlike the "delayed stream selection" path of the College of Science's GREAT and SEE's INSPIRE, double-degree applicants lock in the study plan for both degrees from the moment of entry.

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# 7. Weighting Quick Reference by College

Though all use "Best 4/5" scoring, the weighting of subjects varies greatly across colleges, and failing to appreciate this can easily lead to misjudging one's relative advantage. Setting the weighting logic of the six colleges/double-degree groups covered in this article side by side makes the strategic differences in scoring much clearer:

Because the SEE and the College of Science's GREAT option weight Maths and science at ×2.5, their nominal scores are pushed above 38; the School of Law and some double-degree programmes keep equal or lower weighting, so their nominal scores look "low." CityU has emphasised repeatedly that these figures only reflect the weighted conversion results of each programme itself and cannot be used to compare candidates' relative strengths across programmes. An admittee to the School of Law with an equal-weighted Best-5 score of 24 and an admittee to GREAT with a weighted Best-4 score of 37 may have no real gap in raw HKDSE grades — the difference comes largely from the design of the scoring formulas themselves.

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# 8. Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What do CityU's flagship options (GREAT/INSPIRE/CREATE) in the College of Science, the School of Energy and Environment, the School of Law and the School of Creative Media have in common?

A: The three are highly similar in structure — all follow a "common first year for new students, then delayed stream selection into specific majors a year later," and all come with additional resources such as overseas exchange, internships and flagship scholarships. GREAT (JS1200) took its first cohort in the 2021/22 academic year, covering the Chemistry, Computing Mathematics and Physics departments; INSPIRE (JS1050) took its first cohort in 2025/26, covering the Energy Science and Engineering and Environmental Science and Engineering departments; CREATE (JS1040) is the School of Creative Media's flagship JUPAS entrance. The double-degree programmes (JS1052/1062/1123/1221) follow a different design logic: applicants lock in the study plan for both degrees from entry, with no delayed stream selection.

Q: Can I practise law directly after graduating from CityU's LLB?

A: No — the LLB is only the first step. Graduates must first complete the one-year full-time (or two-year part-time) Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL), pass nine core subjects and three supplementary Hong Kong law subjects, and reach the IELTS (Academic) 7.0 threshold; after obtaining the PCLL, those intending to become barristers must also complete a six-month pupillage before they can formally practise. The entire path — "four years LLB + one year PCLL + six months pupillage" — takes about 5.5 years in total, the standard route for common-law legal education in Hong Kong.

Q: Is the JUPAS score the only admission threshold for CityU's Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (BVM)?

A: No. JUPAS is just one of four entry routes, and all applicants (regardless of route) must additionally pass four non-academic assessments: proof of 70 hours of animal experience, an 800-word application statement, the CASPer situational judgement test and a multiple mini interview (MMI). Academic scores are only part of the candidate's eligibility. For a full breakdown, see the companion article Comprehensive Guide to CityU Veterinary Admissions.

Q: How much more expensive are CityU's double-degree programmes than a single degree?

A: Double degrees are five-year programmes. The first four years' tuition is charged at the UGC-funded rate, the same as a single degree; however, credits beyond the normal credit ceiling and credits taken in the fifth year and beyond are charged separately at self-financing rates. The exact amount varies with the annual tuition adjustment, so before applying, refer to the latest figures in Tuition and Admission Scholarships.

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# Data Gaps and Notes

• The two parts of this catalogue fully cover all JS1xxx programmes listed in CityU's official 2026 JUPAS Admission Score Formula and Admissions Scores document (including 11 colleges/schools and 4 double degrees).
• JS1300 (Bio3, see Part 1) is a new programme for 2026 Entry; the official document marks it "New Programme in 2026 JUPAS," so no 2025 admission score is available.
• Admission scores are statistics for 2025 Entry admittees. CityU explicitly states they are "for reference only, cannot be compared across programmes or across years, and cannot predict admission probability."
• Non-JUPAS (IB/A-Level/SAT) and mainland/international admissions are outside the scope of this catalogue; see undergraduate-admissions.md and nonlocal-mainland-international.md.

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