Introduction

Welcome to CityU’s undergraduate catalogue website. CityU aspires to become a leading global university, excelling in research and professional education.

At CityU, we strive to nurture well-rounded graduates who are competent professionals, critical thinkers and life-long learners equipped to cope with a globalised work environment and positioned to captialise on our extensive links to mainland China and beyond.

We offer professional education that prepares our students for the challenges and exciting opportunities opening up in Hong Kong, the Asia-Pacific region and throughout the world in business, science and engineering, veterinary medicine and life sciences, energy and environment, law, creative media and social sciences. This website provides comprehensive information on all our undergraduate courses, majors, minors and degrees offered in the academic year 2018/19. Enjoy reading and find out more about our undergraduate curriculum here.

Discovery-enriched Curriculum

The University implemented its signature Discovery-enriched Curriculum (DEC) by positioning 'discovery' and 'innovation' as an integral part of the entire university undergraduate experience. The DEC has the goal of giving all our students the opportunity to make an original discovery while at City University. The DEC’s emphasis on discovery, innovation, and creativity lies at the heart of our academic strategy and the normative 4-year degree curriculum for teaching and learning.

Please click HERE to find out more about DEC.

Undergraduate Degrees The minimum graduation requirement for a normative 4-year bachelor's degree is 120 credit units, subject to the requirements of individual colleges/schools. Students are allowed to graduate with a maximum of 144 credit units with a flexibility to enrich their studies with double majors or minor to prepare for the challenges in the globalized community. For a bachelor's degree with a normal study duration longer than 4 years, the minimum credit units for graduation and the maximum credit units for the degree is stipulated by the congnizant academic unit. Our normative 4-year undergraduate curriculum comprises the following components: