HKUST may reserve 20% of new medical school inaugural intake for non-locals

About 20 per cent of the 50 places in the inaugural intake of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s new graduate medical school in 2028-29 may be reserved for non-local students, with most of them likely to be from mainland China, according to the institution. Applicants for the four-year graduate entry-level medicine programme must pass an international admission test, with HKUST preferring those with a background in biotechnology. According to HKUST, the tuition fee for holders o...

By William Yiu