Programme

Major and Minor Options

 

Students are provided with the flexibility to design their combination of disciplinary majors, minors and electives within and outside their home Faculties.  The HKU Business School offers 9 major programmes and 7 minor programmes to students outside the Faculty.

 

1. Major/ Minor Programmes available for non-HKU Business School students in the 4-year Curriculum
 

Programme

Major

Minor

Accounting

✗✓

Asset Management and Private Banking (AMPB)

[for students of 2017-18 and thereafter intakes]
[Selection process required] [note]

✓✗

Business Design and Innovation (BDI) 

[for students of 2018-19 and earlier intakes]
[Selection process required] [note]

✓✗

Business and Economy in China (BEC)

✗✓

Economics

✓✓

Entrepreneurship, Design and Innovation (EDI) 

[for students of 2019-20 and thereafter intakes]
[Selection process required] [note]

✓✗

Finance

✓✓

Human Resource Management (HRM)

✓✓

Information Systems (IS)

[for students of 2019-20 and earlier intakes]

✓✓

Information Systems and Analytics (ISA)

[for students of 2020-21 and thereafter intakes]

✓✓

Marketing

✓✓

Quantitative Finance (QFin) 

[Selection process required] [note]

✓✗

Wealth Management (WM)
[for students of 2019-20 and earlier intakes]

✓✗

 

2. Declaration

 

Students can start declaring their major/minor in the beginning of their 2nd year of study.  However, for those admitted before the 2015-16 intake, the eligibility of students’ declaration of a major/minor offered by the School will only be confirmed when their cumulative GPA at the end of the 2nd year of study (or upon completion of 4 regular semesters at HKU) is available.  You are also reminded to read through the important notes for AMPB, BDI/EDI and QFin should you consider it as a second major.

 

3. Requirements

 

  • Students who wish to declare Major in Business Design and Innovation (BDI) (applicable to students of 2018-19 intake and earlier) / Major in Entrepreneurship, Design and Innovation (EDI) (applicable to students of 2019-20 intake and thereafter), regardless of their intake year, are required to undergo a selection process arranged by the BDI/EDI Programme Coordinator in the 2nd semester of their first year of study.
  • With effect from the 2016-17 intake, students considering to pursue a second major in Quantitative Finance (QFin) are required to undergo a selection process.
  • Students considering to pursue a second major in Asset Management and Private Banking (AMPB) are required to undergo a selection process.  AMPB is applicable to students of 2017-18 intake and thereafter.

4. Course Enrolment

 

  • All courses offered by HKU Business School have quota restriction.  Students’ successful declaration of a major/minor offered by the School will NOT guarantee them a place in the courses for fulfilling the major/minor requirements.
  • Some courses may have pre-requisite requirements.  Students should obtain a pass in the pre-requisite course(s) before taking the subsequent courses.
  • Course enrolment with timetable conflict will NOT be approved.
  • Double-counting is NOT allowed except for the 4 Faculty Core Courses (i.e. ACCT1101 Introduction to Financial Accounting; ECON1210 Introductory Microeconomics; FINA1310 Corporate Finance; and a statistics course as prescribed in the syllabuses) under the "double-major" combination. Where a course applies to more than a major or minor programme, a disciplinary elective (advanced level) must be taken in lieu of the overlapped courses. The specified Faculty Core Courses can be double-counted between the major curricula and students are required to take any free electives in lieu of the double-counted Faculty Core Courses.
  • Double-counting of the 4 Faculty Core Courses is only confined to the combination of "major-major". In other words, double counting of the Faculty Core Courses is NOT allowed for the combinations of "major-minor" nor "minor-minor".
  • Students are not permitted to enroll in mutually exclusive courses where significant portions of the course contents overlap with each other.  A disciplinary elective (advanced level) must be taken in lieu of the mutually exclusive course.  Please see the list of mutually exclusive courses under "Useful Information".
  • The course "MATH1009 Basic Mathematics for Business and Economics" is NOT open to students from the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Science.

5. Academic Advisors

 

  • Temporary academic advisers for non-HKU Business School students taking major/minor offered by the School:
    > Dr. Jasmine Kwong
    > Dr. Vera Yuen

6. Useful information

 

7. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)