Tuition Fee & Scholarship

Entrance Scholarship for Outstanding Non-local Student

The Entrance Scholarship for Outstanding Non-local Students (the Scholarship) is established to encourage non-local overseas students to pursue higher qualifications in education and to enhance students’ professionalism in their chosen areas of focus.

The Scholarship will cover the full tuition fee (24 credit points) of the MEd programme and provide a living allowance of HK$40,000 to cover partial living expenses. No additional fees will be covered by the Scholarship.

1. Eligibility Criteria
   The Scholarship is offered to students who fulfill the following criteria:
   (a) a non-local applicant*;
   (b) meet the admission requirements of the MEd Programme/ respective Area of Focus (if any);
   (c) register to the One-year Full-time MEd Programme; and
   (d) attained a Cumulative GPA of 3.4 (out of 4.33) or above, or equivalent, in their undergraduate degree. If the applicant is a final-year undergraduate student, the Scholarship offer will remain conditional. The applicant must provide proof of a final Programme GPA of 3.4 or above upon completing their undergraduate studies; if not, the Scholarship offer will be revoked.

*Definition of local students and non-local students could be found on the University’s website (under Admissions – Postgraduate Programmes: https://www.eduhk.hk/acadprog/NLS_Definition_PG.pdf)

2. Application Procedures
   Eligible students will be invited to submit applications. Invited students should submit a completed application form together with a Personal Statement and supporting documents (if any) to medadmission@eduhk.hk.

3. Personal Statement
   The Personal Statement should be within 800 to 1,000 words and should be written in English, indicating:

  (a) your motivation to undertake the MEd study in your chosen Area of Focus;
  (b) details of your contribution to school(s) and the education community; and
 (c) the particular professional inputs that you could make to the programme.

4. Selection Criteria
   (a) Academic performance (cumulative / year / subject GPA of Bachelor’s degree or public examination results); and
   (b) Other criteria deemed appropriate by the MEd Programme Committee.

Points to note

- Applicants who fulfilled the abovementioned requirements will be considered for the MEd Entrance Scholarship for Outstanding Non-local Students.
- A formal email and/or letter notification of the award result will be issued to the Scholarship awardee.
- Incomplete application will NOT be considered.
- The EdUHK’s decisions in respect of the award of the Scholarship will be final.
- For enquiries, please contact MEd Admissions at medadmission@eduhk.hk.

Background
The Government introduced the Hong Kong Future Talents Scholarship Scheme for Advanced Studies (FTSS) starting from the 2025/26 academic year to attract more local students to pursue advanced studies in priority areas conducive to the development of Hong Kong and expand the pool of high-calibre talents for various domains, while further promoting the development of our city into an international hub for post-secondary education. More details of the FTSS are available at the UGC’s website.  

Amount of Fellowship
Under the FTSS, awardees are required to pay a minimum tuition fee being the prevailing rate of the UGC-funded full-time degree programmes (i.e. HK$44,500 for 2025/26 academic year and HK$47,000 for 2026/27 academic year), and the differences will be subsidised by the scholarship subject to a cap of HK$100,000 for each student for the whole TPg programme, regardless of the actual study period of the programme and mode of study. The scholarships are provided for the purpose of offsetting the tuition fee.

For example, if you are an awardee from the Master of Education (MEd) programme (24 credit points):

Tuition Fee in 2025/26	Amount subsidised by FTSS	Amount to be paid by the awardee*
$172,800	$100,000	$72,800

*The calculation is based on the required 24 credit points of the MEd programme. Any extra credit points taken will not be covered by the FTSS.

To avoid "double benefit", students received financial support from other public sources for the purpose of meeting tuition fee expenses would not be eligible for the FTSS. Students received such financial support from other sources (e.g. education subsidies from a private company or foundation) should declare and provide relevant details to the universities. If the sum of such financial support and the scholarship award would exceed the tuition fee level, the amount of scholarship awards should be reduced to ensure that the awardee would not receive financial support in excess of the tuition fee to safeguard the effective use of public money.

Eligibility
Local students who are admitted to the designed taught postgraduate programmes in full-time or part-time study mode for 2025/26 will be invited to submit applications for the FTSS.

Students awarded with other government scholarships for pursuing the same programme, including the Continuing Education Fund, will not be considered to avoid "double benefit". Nevertheless, students provided with financial assistance in the form of loans from the Government (e.g. Extended Non-means-tested Loan Scheme under Student Finance Office) to settle the tuition fees for the TPg programme are still eligible to apply.

Each student can only be awarded with the scholarship once, either at a UGC-funded university or self-financing university. Those who have been awarded a scholarship under the Targeted Taught Postgraduate Programmes Fellowships Scheme in the past for another programme will not be considered. The UGC shall revoke the scholarship from the student if it is found that a student is being awarded more than one scholarship under the FTSS.

Assessment Criteria
The award of the FTSS will be based on merits taking into account the students’ academic achievements, professional qualifications, relevant working experience and achievements in other areas as well as the proposals submitted by the students with special attention to their personal statements on contributing to the priority areas of Hong Kong and their commitment to contribute to the relevant industries or sectors in Hong Kong or Greater Bay Area upon graduation.

For 2025/26, to be announced.

Scholarship for Teachers (Pursuit of Master's Degree Programmes) (2024/25)

The Scholarship for Teachers (Pursuit of Master's Degree Programmes) launched by the Education Bureau is now inviting applications. This scholarship aims to recognize achievements of high-performing teachers and to encourage teachers' pursuit of higher qualifications as well as to enhance their professionalism. Application is open to full-time regular teachers who

(a) are permanent residents of Hong Kong;  

(b) are regular teachers^* in local primary or secondary day schools (including special schools) offering a formal curriculum at the time of application;

(c) have no less than five years (as at 31 August 2023) of full-time teaching experience^# in local primary or secondary day schools (including special schools) offering a formal curriculum;

(d) adhere to the standards of professional conduct of teachers and have no records of professional misconduct and punishment imposed by EDB and/ or schools;

(e) have not been awarded this Scholarship before; and

(f) have been enrolled to start, in the 2024/25 school year, the first year of study in a local part-time master's degree programme offered by a local higher education institution specialising in one of the following areas:

(i) Catering for Learner Diversity (including Special Educational Needs, Gifted Education and Inclusive Education)

(ii) Chinese Culture

(iii) Chinese History and History

(iv) Educational Leadership

(v) Guidance and Counselling (including Life Planning Education, Counselling and Life Education)

(vi) Information Technology in Education

(vii) Language Education (Chinese or English)

(viii) Parent Education and Home-school Co-operation

(ix) STEM^$ Education

(x) Values Education

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Remarks:

^* In the context of Direct Subsidy Scheme schools and private schools, “regular teachers” refers to regular members of the teaching staff in school. Teachers employed under the Native-speaking English Teacher Scheme in public sector are not included.

^# Applicants’ experience of secondment to Education Bureau is also counted.

^$ STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

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Teachers who apply for "the Scholarship for Teachers" have to be enrolled in a relevant master's degree programme offered by a local higher education institution in the 2024/25 school year. Master of Education programme with the following fields of study is also included in the list of the relevant study programmes for the Scholarship for Teachers: 

(a) Curriculum, Teaching and Assessment

(b) Education and Developmental Psychology

(c) Educational Leadership

(d) English for Academic Purposes

(e) Life and Values Education

(f) Mathematics, Technology, Science and Environment

(g) Special Needs, Giftedness and Counselling

The quota for “the Scholarship for Teachers” (2024/25) is 20. A total amount of HK$80,000 will be awarded to each awardee.

The Scholarship is open for application from 16 May to 13 June 2024.

For further information, please visit Education Bureau’s website. 

The Entrance Scholarship for Master of Education (The Scholarship) is established to encourage teachers’ pursuit of higher qualifications; as well as to enhance students' professionalism in their chosen areas of focus.

The details for 2025/26 will be announced soon

1. Eligibility Criteria
The Scholarship is offered to selected local full-time serving teachers who fulfill the following criteria:

1. a local applicant^*;
2. meet the admission requirements of the Master of Education (MEd) programme/respective Area of Focus (if any);
3. have been teaching in local schools (including pre-primary institutions, primary, secondary, special schools and higher education institutions) for at least one year OR have relevant working experience in their chosen Area of Focus;
4. have submitted an application for MEd programme September 2023 intake via EdUHK’s Online Application System and accepted the admission offer of the MEd programme;
5. register to the MEd programme offered by The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) in September 2023 intake;
6. NOT an awardee of the Scholarship for Teachers (Pursuit of Master’s degree Programmes (2023/24)) provided by Education Bureau (EDB) or UGC Targeted TPg Programmes Fellowship Scheme 2023/24^#.

Remarks:
^* Definition of local students and non-local students could be found at the EdUHK’s website (under Admissions – Postgraduate Programmes: https://www.eduhk.hk/acadprog/NLS_Definition_PG.pdf)
^# The MEd Entrance Scholarship will be withdrawn if he/she is the recipient of the Scholarship for Teachers (Pursuit of Master’s degree Programmes (2023/24)) or UGC Targeted TPg Programmes Fellowship Scheme 2023/24.

2. Application Procedures
If you would like to apply for the Scholarship, please write to us via email (medadmission@eduhk.hk) on or before 31 July 2023 (Monday) and (i) indicate your intention to apply for the Scholarship; (ii) attach the following documents in the email:

1. completed Personal Statement;
2. at least 1 community service letter(s) or recommendation letter(s) completed either by the Principal of the applicant’s serving school / academic staff from a university; and
3. proof of your teaching in local schools for at least one year.

3. Personal Statement
The Personal Statement should be within 800 to 2,000 words and should be written in English, indicating

1. your motivation to undertake the MEd study in your chosen Area of Focus;
2. details of your contribution to school(s) and the education community;
3. the attributes that you possesses as a good teacher, supported by examples;
4. your performance in learning and teaching, student development, school development, and professional relationships and services; and
5. the particular professional inputs that you could make to the programme.
6. Applicants who fulfilled the abovementioned requirements will be considered for the MEd Entrance Scholarship.

4.  Selection Criteria

1. Applicants’ attribute of a teacher;
2. Performance in and/or contribution to the serving school;
3. Contribution to the education community;
4. Academic performance; and
5. Other criteria deemed appropriate

An amount of HK$10,000 will be awarded to each awardee.
A formal email and/or letter notification of the award result will be issued to the Scholarship awardee.
Incomplete application will NOT be considered.
The EdUHK’s decisions in respect of the award of the Scholarship will be final.

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