This year, five additional Hong Kong universities have begun recruiting students from mainland China, and students who have reached the second-tier college entrance exam score threshold are eligible to apply. According to the plan, the University of Hong Kong intends to enroll approximately 300 undergraduate students from the mainland this year, with no quota limits set for individual provinces or cities, and admissions will be based on merit. Wang Yufeng, the university's mainland admissions officer, revealed that 12,000 mainland students applied to the University of Hong Kong last year, with 303 ultimately being admitted.
It is understood that building on previous recruitment scales, five new Hong Kong institutions have joined the mainland recruitment drive this year: the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Centennial College, Tung Wah College, and Hang Seng Management College. Most of these institutions were established in recent years and have relatively lower requirements for students' college entrance exam scores, generally requiring only that students meet the second-tier score threshold; however, they do require students to possess a high level of English proficiency.
