Hong Kong to raise university tuition fees by 17.6% over next 3 years
- Authorities describe increase as ‘modest’, while lawmaker suggests students can always take on more part-time work
University tuition fees in Hong Kong will rise by HK$2,400 (US$307) in 2025 and another HK$2,500 in each of the following two years after a nearly three-decade freeze, authorities have said, leading to an ultimate increase of 17.6 per cent.
Eric Chan Kwok-ki, the city’s No 2 official, said on Thursday that the change was unrelated to the government’s deficit of more than HK$100 billion in the previous financial year and authorities had no plans for further fee increases.
“Our target has nothing to do with the deficit,” the chief secretary for administration said. “We have not adjusted the tuition fees in around 20 years, so we think there is a need to very gently adjust them.”
Five universities told the Post that financial support was available to students in need.
Full-time taught postgraduate and research postgraduate programmes subsidised by the University Grants Committee will follow the same fee changes.
