Summer Residence 2024
Eligibility and Allocation
Full-time Student in Government funded Bachelor’s Degree Programmes
*Non-current residents, who will graduate in June 2024 are NOT eligible for Summer residence.
- With limited bedplaces, there is no guarantee that bedplaces will be granted to all applicants. When the demand surpasses supply, bedplaces will be offered by lottery.
- “Current residents” and “non-current residents with previous hall experience” admitted subject to availability and recommendation of Residence Master concerned.
- For non-current residents, priorities go to:
- Graduating UG students (in October 2024) without previous hall experience;
- Non-local UG students remaining in HK for internships and related works.
Key Dates of Application
| Application Period (AIMS login) |
10 April 2024 (Start at 10:00 HKT) - 15 April 2024 (End on 23:59 HKT) |
| Residential Period | For Current Residents
Residents are required to vacate their rooms if their student status have been changed on AIMS, please refer to Regulations Governing Student Residence 2.4 for details. The paid hall lodging fee will not be refunded. |
| Application result announcements via email | 25 April 2024 |
| Confirmation Period | 25 - 29 April 2024 |
| Announcements of room assignment | 24 May 2024 |
| Check-in date (for Non-current residents) | 3 June 2024 |
| Room Moving | 7 June 2024 to 17 June 2024 The exact period will be notified in Room Assignment email on 24 May 2024, and residents shall complete room moving within 3-4 days. |
| Check-out date & time | Before 12noon on the last day of the residential period |
Application Method (AIMS Demo)
- Applicants must submit their applications via AIMS before the deadline specified by the Student Residence Office. Late applications will not be entertained.
- Applicants are allowed to modify the application form before application deadline. After application deadline, requests of any changes will not be accepted.
- All information provided in the application must be true and accurate. Submission of inaccurate information will lead to immediate disqualification and removal from the hall, and their residence applications will not be accepted throughout their entire study period. All fees paid will not be refunded.
- The approved period of stay for summer residence is non-extendable.
- Summer hall offer is made provisional. The Residence Master/Student Residence Office reserves the rights to rescind the provisional hall offer out of prospective resident's misconduct. With limited bedplaces, there is no guarantee that bed spaces will be granted to all applicants.
Residential Period and Hall Lodging Fees
Current Residents
(1) Normal Period:27 May to 12 August 2024, 12noon (11 weeks)
| *Student Type | *Cohort | Double Room (per person) |
Single Room (per person) |
| Local Students | All | HK$5,280 | HK$10,560 |
| Non-local Students | 2018 and beforehand | ||
| 2019 and thereafter | HK$6,330 | HK$12,660 |
(2) Special Period for those current residents who will graduate in June 2024:
27 May to 24 June 2024, 12noon (4 weeks)
| *Student Type | *Cohort | Double Room (per person) |
Single Room (per person) |
| Local Students | All | HK$1,920 | HK$3,840 |
| Non-local Students | 2018 and beforehand | ||
| 2019 and thereafter | HK$2,320 | HK$4,640 |
Non-current Residents
(1) Normal Period:3 June to 12 August 2024, 12noon (10 weeks)
| *Student Type | *Cohort | Double Room (per person) |
Single Room (per person) |
| Local Students | All | HK$4,800 | HK$9,600 |
| Non-local Students | 2018 and beforehand | ||
| 2019 and thereafter | HK$5,750 | HK$11,500 |
The above charge rates are subject to annual review and revision.
*You can check your student type and cohort in AIMS.
**The period of stay is non-extendable.
Successful applicants will receive a notifying email and are required to pay in advance the FULL hall lodging fee when confirming the bedplace offer in the period specified by the Student Residence Office. Applicants can settle the payment by online payment. Amount in your student account cannot be used to offset the hall lodging fee of summer residence.
All charges paid are non-refundable and non-transferable. There is NO refund if you withdraw or check-out earlier after the confirmation of bedplace offer.
Only those residents with hall offer in 2024/25 can opt to extend their stay up to the commencement of residential year 2024/25. Email will be sent to those residents with 2024/25 hall offer in due course.
Room Assignment and Room Moving
- SRO has the right to arrange room moving exercise subject to operational need.
- The maintenance project of Hall 2 and Hall 3 will commence in the summer of 2024. Residents of Hall 2 and Hall 3 will be assigned to rooms of other halls.
- Certain floors in each hall will be reserved for summer letting/ room inspection.
- The summer floors may be changed based on the summer applications of current residents in respective hall.
- In order to protect student residents' privacy and their residence life, the summer floors tentatively designated for students for each hall are as below:
- For the avoidance of doubt, please note that even after the students have moved into the rooms assigned to them for summer residence, the Student Residence Office and/or Residence Masters reserve the right at any time to re-assign them to other rooms.
- If you are staying in a double room without a roommate, please keep the place and another bed clean and tidy, and be prepared for the check-in of your new roommate at any time. No further notice about the exact check-in date and time of your new roommate will be issued.
- Request of room change/swapping and hall/ roommate preferences will not be entertained in the summer period.
- Student Residence offers shared double rooms and limited number of single rooms (all rooms are shared washroom). Students will be normally assigned to double rooms. The small number of single rooms will be firstly assigned to those who have medical reasons or special needs with supporting documents enclosed in the completed application.
- For those current residents who are required to perform room moving from 7 June 2024 to 17 June 2024 (move by batch within designated period) & the exact period will be notified in Room Assignment email on 24 May 2024 and residents shall complete room moving within 3-4 days.
- You are required to check out of the current rooms that you are residing and move into the rooms assigned for Summer Residence 2024 in the room moving exercise.
- If you are not able to check-out or move into the room concerned in person, a written and signed authorized letter by the authorized person (including the full name and Student ID No./ID number/passport number of the authorized person) must be provided to Student Residence Office within the designated moving period on your behalf.
- If residents cannot complete room moving within the time specified, the penalties will be levied.
| Hall | JCHH (H1) |
HSBCPH (H2) |
ACH (H3) |
JCAH (H4) |
CSKH (H5) |
LSKH (H6) |
JCHaH (H7) |
SG&LIWH (H9) |
Hall 10 (H10) |
Hall 11 (H11) |
| Summer Floors | 8-15 | N/A | N/A | 5-11 | 6-14 | 1-5 | 1-3 | 1-6 | 3-7 | P1-8 |
| Status | Room Assignment |
Room
Moving |
Room Moving Schedule |
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Current residents
(including Normal Period: 11 weeks and Special Period: 4 weeks) |
Current rooms that they are residing on the Summer Floors. | No | N/A |
| Rooms of the hall that they are currently residing on the Non-Summer Floors / unavailable halls, which are shown above. | Yes |
Between 7- 17 June 2024 (move by batch)
The exact period will be notified in Room Assginment email on 24 May 2024, and residents shall complete room moving within 3-4 days. |
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Non-current Residents
(Normal Period: 10 weeks) |
On a totally random basis. These rooms are clustered together on the floors shown above. | N/A | |