Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2006

CUHK Proves Top Choice of Top Students in 2006 Admissions Exercise 39 Mainland Intake Unified National Colleges Admissions System A total of 240 outstanding Mainland undergraduates were admitted through the Unified National Colleges Admissions System, including the top scorers in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi and Shandong. In the 14 provinces and municipalities which provided ranking information (the number of candidates in these provinces/ municipalities ranges from 0.1 to 0.7 million), 15 students admitted by CUHK rank among the top 10, and 47 students rankwithin the top 500. The English proficiency of these students is particularly impressive, with 10 students scoring above the 95th percentile and the average score above the 88th percentile on the English paper. Non-local Admission In our commitment to broadening our student mix and maintaining a multicultural campus, CUHK sets its sights beyond Hong Kong. This year, we admitted 300 non- local undergraduates from 20 Mainland provinces and municipalities, as well as countries and regions all over the world, including Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Mexico, Mauritius, Singapore, Slovakia, SouthKorea, Spain, Taiwan, the UK and the US. The average scores of Mainland students admitted were higher, by about 50 to over 150 points, than the cut-off scores of those key universities in all 20 Mainland provinces and municipalities ( Figure 3 ). In terms of international recruitment, the number of applications almost doubled this year while the number of enquiries soared by 125% from last year. The Mainland recruitment exercise also underwent a promising 25% increase in the number of enquiries received, from last year. Programmes with the Best Admission Results For the JUPAS intake, the five CUHK programmes with the best admission results were Global Business Studies; Medical Studies; Quantitative Finance; Insurance, Financial and Actuarial Analysis; and Risk Management Science. In terms of results of the best applicants admitted, the top five programmes were Professional Accountancy, Translation, Journalism and Communication, Music, and Global Business Studies, with students admitted having scored close to full points in the HKALE. Commitment to Excellence The 2006 recruitment figures bode very well for the future of the University. Through the concerted effort of all its members, CUHK will continue to attract Hong Kong’s elite students by virtue not only of its academic supremacy, but its bilingual and multicultural tradition, and its global vision. Figure 2: Number of first-choice JUPAS applicants admitted in 2006 Figure 3: Admission scores of Mainland undergraduates 2006 Figure 1: JUPAS entrants with the highest average grades in HKCEE and HKALE * Full score of the Mainland university examination was 750, with the exception of three provinces/municipalities, whose scores were 900 and 630. Provinces/Municipalities Figure 4: Top 10 CUHK programmes in the 2006 admissions exercise Ranking Programme 1 Global Business Studies 2 Medical Studies 3 Quantitative Finance 4 Insurance, Finance & Actuarial Analysis 5 Risk Management Science 6 Professional Accountancy 7 Pharmacy 8 Journalism & Communication 9 Translation 10 Psychology