Application for Postgraduate Housing

Important Announcement

There will be no new student intake for the residential year 2024-2025 at Graduate House.

Scheduled from January 2025, the entire Graduate House Residential Complex will be undergoing a comprehensive renovation project.

Student residential services at the Graduate House will be temporarily suspended from December 2024 to allow for the necessary renovation and refurbishment work to take place.


April 1, 2024.

For the following student categories:

  1. New Non-local Research Postgraduate Students
  2. New Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPF) Awardees
  3. New HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship (HKU-PS) Awardees

Important Notes:

Full-time students in the above student categories on July 1, 2024 and thereafter are guaranteed a hall place to the end of the residential year within their first year of admittance, at a residence assigned by the University, subject to the following terms and conditions:

  1. Please read the “General Information” carefully before completing this form.
  2. Applicants should complete this online application form in English. Failure to complete the form duly may affect the chance of admission.
  3. Each applicant should only submit ONE application during the application period.
  4. Duplicate applications will be rejected and will not be processed.
  5. Students holding conditional offer from the University can apply for housing, but housing offer will only be made upon acceptance of University admission offer.
  6. After submitting the online application form, please send a copy of your “E-offer admission letter” and required supporting document(s) by clicking the “File Upload” button”. The File upload button will be appeared once you have completed the online hall application form.
  7. This first-year housing guarantee is effective only during the first academic year of research postgraduate study. It cannot be used in later years even if students are admitted to an additional programme in HKU.
  8. The University DOES NOT GUARANTEE housing for new students coming with their spouse and dependants.
  9. Each applicant can select and rank a maximum of three (3) choices from all postgraduate residence choices available.
  10. Application will be assessed by the respective postgraduate residences, in the order as indicated on the form. If the selected residences are not available, then the housing guarantee will ensure a randomly assigned residential place in other university-administered housing.
Registration Month Application period Postgraduate Residences available for application Notification of Results

July and August 2024

April 1 to July 15, 2024

  • Ching Lin Terrace Residence
  • Mui Fong House
  • Jockey Club Student Village IV

3 weeks prior to registration date;

or

4 weeks upon submission of hall application, whichever is later.

September, 2024

All Postgraduate Residences are available

From October, 2024 onwards

From July 16, 2024

  • Ching Lin Terrace Residence
  • Mui Fong House
  • HKU Residential Colleges (Jockey Club Student Village III)
  • Jockey Club Student Village IV
Hall Address Email
HKU Residential Colleges (Jockey Club Student Village III) 9 Lung Wah Street, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong jockeyv3@hku.hk
Ching Lin Terrace Residence Room G01, G/F, Ching Lin Terrace Residence, 10 Ching Lin Terrace, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong chinglin@hku.hk
Mui Fong House 10 Mui Fong Street, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong mfssr@hku.hk
Morrison Hall 109 Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong. jockeyv2@hku.hk
St. John’s College Wong Chik Ting Hall 82 Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong. stjohns@hku.hk
Jockey Club Student Village IV 4 Police School Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong jockeyv4@hku.hk

Number of applications to date

Name of Postgraduate Residence No. of 1st choice applications to date
Ching Lin Terrace Residence 8
Graduate House 0
Mui Fong House 39
Jockey Club Student Village IV 4
Morrison Hall 8
HKU Residential Colleges
Shun Hing College
9
Chi Sun College
2
Lap-Chee College
3
New College
1
St. John’s College Wong Chik Ting Hall 12

READ and DECLARATION

Please mark “Application for Postgraduate Housing” on the top right hand corner of each document. Your application will not be processed without the required supporting document(s).

General Information

Application for Postgraduate Housing V CEDARS
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