SUMMARY OF FINDINGS 2025-26
Response Rate
Out of the 1,817 newly registered full-time students, 1,642 (90.4%) responded to this survey (as at 30 September 2025).
Demographic Profile
The age range of the respondents was from 16 to 47, of which 12.0% were aged under 18, 82.5% were between 18 and 22 years of age and 5.5% of them were aged 23 or above. 70.8% of the respondents were females, giving a gender ratio 1:2.4 (the ratio of males to females).
Majority of our new students were locally born (67.2%) and had been living in Hong Kong since birth (62.7%). Most of them were ethnic Chinese (93.4%) and spoke Chinese (93.1%) at home. 78.8% of the respondents had no religious belief.
Family Background
It was found that 46.8% of the respondents’ fathers and 46.0% of their mothers had attained secondary education/ matriculation, 34.0% of the respondents’ fathers and 33.5% of their mothers had attained post-secondary or university education, while 2.7% of the fathers and 2.8% of the mothers did not receive formal education. In relation to first generation university students, 59.3% of respondents reported that neither father nor mother received post-secondary or tertiary education.
For respondents’ monthly household income, 24.1% of them was below HK$20,000 and 44.0% was below HK$30,000.
Living Conditions
52.0% of the respondents lived in the New Territories. The four districts that most of the respondents lived in were Kwun Tong (9.3%), Yuen Long (including Tin Shui Wai) (8.2%), Sha Tin (7.9%) and Tai Po (7.9%). Including the return journey, majority of our students (60.2%) needed 60- 179 minutes travelling between home and campus while 26.8% of the students needed to spend 3 hours or above on the commute. Compared to last year, there is a slight increase of 1.8% owing to the increased number of non-local students whose hometowns are not in Hong Kong, and hence longer commute was reported. 55.0% of the respondents lived in public housing (including Housing Authority or Housing Society Rental and Sale Flats, as well as Home Ownership Scheme (HOS)). Most of the respondents (including the student) were from household of 3 to 5 members (79.2%) and 62.7% of the respondents had their own rooms at home.
Financial Support for Study and Daily Expenses
88.7% of the respondents would rely, to different degrees, on family support regarding their financial sources for study and daily expenses. The three other major sources of financial support are summer or part-time job (67.4%), personal savings (53.4%) and financial aids (36.3%). Only a minority of respondents would rely on other sources of support (e.g. Comprehensive Social Security Assistance) to cover their living expenses.
University Life and Learning
98.1% of the respondents expressed that it was their first choice to study in Hong Kong for Higher Education. 82.5% of all the respondents chose EdUHK as their first choice; whilst 82.6% of the respondents indicated that the programme they were admitted to was their first choice.
97.3% of the BEd and HD(ECE) respondents described they were very motivated (67.7%) and quite motivated (29.6%) for being a teacher in future.
Taking all respondents into account, the three major reasons for choosing the EdUHK to pursue their studies were personal wish (71.1%), curriculum (47.0%) and occupation obtainment in the teaching fields (46.7%). Most of the respondents came to know EdUHK programmes through the information on JUPAS website (70.9%), followed by social media (38.1%) and public praise (30.8%).
70.3% of the respondents expressed that they anticipated difficulties in academic studies, 59.1% of them expected to face difficulties in adapting to the learning approach in university and 43.5% expected to face difficulties in future prospects.
The most preferred campus activities of the respondents were work internship programmes (77.6%), followed by academic activities (71.0%) and overseas or mainland exchange programmes (65.5%).