CityU Undergraduate Programme Catalogue (Part I): the 8.5-Point Scale and the Colleges of Biomedicine, Business, Computing, Engineering and CLASS

This catalogue groups CityU's undergraduate programmes by the University's current faculty/college structure — "College" or "School" — and lists every undergraduate programme admitting local HKDSE candidates through the Joint University Programmes Admissions System (JUPAS). Each entry gives the JUPAS programme code (JS1xxx), the programme's admission score formula (best 5 / best 6, subject weightings), and the 2025 entry score statistics (Median and Lower Quartile). Part I covers the College of Biomedicine, the College of Business, the College of Computing, the College of Engineering, and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS). The College of Science, the Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, the School of Creative Media, the School of Energy and Environment, the School of Law, and double-degree programmes appear in Part II.

Data basis: the 2026 Entry cycle. Programme names, JS codes, score formulae and scores are all taken from the CityU Admissions Office's official document Admission Score Formula and Admissions Scores for 2026 JUPAS (version dated 7 January 2026).

⚠️ Important notes:

• CityU's JUPAS programme codes have used the JS1xxx range since the 2020s (replacing the older five-digit JS1xxxx / JS1xxx system). Always confirm against the JUPAS website and CityU's admissions pages for the relevant cycle before applying.
• CityU has in recent years moved heavily towards broad-based admission (宽口径/大类收生): many programmes (e.g. JS1300 Bio3, JS1070 ACT, JS1200 GREAT, JS1040 CREATE) admit under a single JS code, with students declaring a major or choosing freely after enrolment. The "Majors / Streams" column in the relevant entries lists the scope covered.
• Admission scores in the tables are actual statistics for 2025 entry and are for reference only; they cannot predict 2026 admission probabilities. CityU explicitly states that "due to differing subject weightings between programmes, scores cannot be compared across programmes or across years" (per the official CityU PDF).
• Entries marked "not available (N/A)" ("查无" in the Chinese source) mean the compiler could not verify the item from official sources and has not fabricated it.

# I. How to read the scores: CityU's "8.5-point scale" conversion

Before reading the tables below, you need to understand the new conversion scale adopted by CityU (and, since 2025 entry, by HKU, CUHK, HKUST and PolyU alike) (per the official CityU PDF^※):

In other words, a 5** counts as 8.5 points (rather than 7 points under the old scale). Each CityU programme then applies subject weightings on top of this, commonly "English ×2.5 / ×2 / ×1.5", "Mathematics ×2.5 / ×2", "Science ×1.5", and so forth. Because the weightings differ, the "score bases" differ too — a best-5 programme with equal weighting has a theoretical maximum of 42.5, while a heavily weighted programme's nominal maximum can far exceed that. This is why CityU stresses that scores "cannot be compared across programmes". Every score in the tables below carries its scoring basis with it.

Citizenship and Social Development (公民与社会发展科) and the former Liberal Studies subject are not counted in admission scores (per footnote ∆ of the CityU PDF); the admission-score statistics exclude students admitted through special channels such as "Other Experiences and Achievements in Competitions and Activities", "Principal's Nominations", "Sports", and "Students with Disabilities" (per footnote # of the PDF).

# II. College of Biomedicine

In the 2020s CityU regrouped several biomedical-related departments from the old College of Engineering and College of Science into a new College of Biomedicine, which now oversees undergraduate programmes in biomedical engineering, biological sciences and biomedical sciences.

Programmes including JS1040–JS1044, JS1300 and JS1805–JS1807 accept certain "Category B Applied Learning subjects" as one elective, scored at grade 3/4 (per note 1 of the PDF).

# III. College of Business

CityU's business school, formerly known as 商学院, holds triple accreditation from AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA. JS1001 Global Business (GBS) and JS1000 Computational Finance and Financial Technology are its elite/specialist programmes; the former includes a joint-degree arrangement with Columbia University.

# IV. College of Computing

In recent years CityU split computer science, data science and related departments out of the College of Engineering to establish a standalone College of Computing.

# V. College of Engineering

JS1201 Architecture and Civil Engineering is one of the College of Engineering's highest-scoring programmes on paper (2025 median 43.5), because of its heavy "English/Maths/M1M2/Physics ×2.5" weightings — an arithmetical product of weighting, not of applicants' raw results being higher than elsewhere. See Section I ("8.5-point scale") above.

# VI. College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS)

JS1111 Crime Science is a distinctive CLASS undergraduate major that remains rare among Hong Kong universities. Social Work (JS1113) is a professionally accredited programme recognised by the Social Workers Registration Board.