• We provide highly diversified and sophisticated education in life sciences, ranging from as tiny as a molecule to an organelle, to a cell, to a tissue, to a microorganism, to an organism, and to as large as a habitat. Indeed, we are the only university in town that offers Human Biology as well as Cell and Molecular Biology for study. The former study stream is jointly offered the Faculty of Medicine.
  
  
• We have excellent reputation in education. In the most recent survey conducted by Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly (信報財經月刊) in 2007, CUHK ranked top among the eight local University Grants Committee-funded universities. The six major criteria included the percentage of PhD holders for academic staff, JUPAS admission results, teaching qualities, financial resources, quality of graduates, and research performance.
  
  
• We are commended and affirmed by the Quality Assurance Council of the University Grants Committee that CUHK has been recognized to ‘provide high quality student learning experience that reflects its mission and role statement, underpinned by good quality assurance systems’.
  
  
  

>> New Information (Oct. 2018)

Non-JUPAS Admission

• Acquire the International Baccalaureate Diploma; OR
• Obtain good grades in GCE Advanced Level Examination with no less than three Advanced Level subjects; OR
• Possess a qualification which qualifies for university admission in the issuing country (e.g. SAT in USA, UEC/STPM in Malaysia, ATAR in Australia, OSSD in Canada); OR
• Completed an associate degree or higher diploma

2012 entrants: 

Taught Postgraduate Programmes

The School of Life Sciences offers two taught postgraduate programmes:
          
               M.Sc. in Biochemical and Biomedical Sciences 
               M.Sc. in Nutrition, Food Science and Technology  
          
 
Application: The application details are available on the University’s Graduate School website.