FBE Majors and Minors - FAQs

You can start declaring your major/minor, offered by your home Faculty or other Faculties, starting from the pre-enrolment period in August of your second year of study.  You should finalize your major/minor options by the add/drop period of the first semester of your fourth year of study.

Your major/minor declaration in the SIS is to indicate what major/minor you intended to pursue during your study.  The programme guide of the respective major/minor will be shown in the SIS for your reference.  Your major/minor declaration in the SIS will not guarantee you a place in courses required by the programme.

Yes, you are allowed to switch your major to a minor in the same discipline in the SIS during the pre-enrollment period in August or the add/drop period.  You are required to finalize your major/minor options by the add/drop period of the first semester of your fourth year of study.

Students who wish to pursue a second major in Business Design and Innovation (BDI) (applicable to students of 2018-19 and earlier intakes) / Entrepreneurship, Design and Innovation (EDI) (applicable to students of 2019-20 and thereafter intakes) / Quantitative Finance (QFin) / Asset Management and Private Banking (AMPB) (applicable to students of 2017-18 and thereafter intakes) are required to undergo a selection process.

The selection process will take place in the second semester of students’ first year of study.  Students who wish to declare a Major in BDI/EDI can approach our Faculty Office for application details.  Application includes submission of an application form and an essay by a specified deadline for consideration by the Programme Coordinator.  Shortlisted students will be invited to a selection interview.  Declaration of a second major in BDI/EDI has been blocked by the system.  Only successful students will be able to declare such via SIS during the initial course selection period or add/drop period.

In view of the limited teaching resources, there is quota restriction on every class offered by HKU Business School.  Students’ declaration of a major/minor offered by the School in the SIS will not guarantee them a place in the courses required by the programme.

No, you are required to obtain a pass in the pre-requisite course before taking the subsequent courses.  Students will normally not be granted waiver for pre-requisite requirement; and cannot take the pre-requisite course and subsequent course concurrently.

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.

Please download the application form for course exemption (document BE44/714 amended) at our website and return the completed form to our Faculty Office.  In general, you are required to take a disciplinary elective (advanced level) in lieu of the mutually exclusive course.

Yes, we allow credit transfer of equivalent courses from overseas institution to HKU during your exchange study.  You should submit to your home Faculty an application for credit transfer together with the syllabuses of the courses you intend to take during your exchange before the specified deadline stipulated by your home Faculty.  For the course equivalence information of successful credit transfer applications in the past, please visit our website.

Students are advised to check with their home Faculty that whether there are any remaining courses they have to enroll in to fulfill their major/minor requirements. Students are also advised to check on their own if they have fulfilled the requirements.

You can request for a temporary academic advisor to obtain academic-related advises. Please login to the SIS, go to "Student Center" and click the link "Request Temporary Adviser".  After inputting your intended major/minor, details of your temporary academic adviser will be shown and you can take contact him/her by email.  The assignment of temporary academic adviser will only remain valid for 90 days.  For any enquiries related to regulations and structure of the major/minor programmes, please contact the Faculty Office at 3917 5343 or by email fbe.undergrad@hku.hk.