Speaking of reservation fees, students in Hong Kong must be familiar with it.
I still remember that in February last year, the editor gave you a shocking example, a Hong Kong university in 23fall issued a sky-high reservation fee of 171,000 Hong Kong dollars, which caused heated discussions.
Time has passed, and 24fall has also begun to issue admissions, which means that it is time for many students to pay the reservation fee.
The "prospective Hong Kong students" who originally thought they could have a good year, not surprisingly, were "created" by this hard-won admission letter...
The "170,000 sky-high majors" that dominated last year have risen again this year. For the same school and the same major, the reservation fee has increased from 170,000 last year to 20,000+ to 197,000!!
As in previous years, it is specifically stated in the admission documents that the money must be paid in one lump sum and is non-refundable, and the student can be given time to consider whether to pay the money or not, but only for 2 weeks.
197,000, which is probably more expensive than the tuition fees of many majors for a whole year... Netizens asked: Who is in this school?!
The sky-high reservation fee for universities in Hong Kong, China
To popularize science for "budding new", the reservation fee can be almost understood as a "deposit". The school will issue you an offer, and the student needs to click "Accept the offer" and pay a certain fee at the specified time to successfully go both ways and determine the number of places. If the payment is overdue, it will be deemed to be abandoned.
Usually, the amount of the reservation fee is equal to the half-semester tuition fee. Once the student is registered, the reservation fee will be automatically converted into tuition.
In recent years, the application popularity of Hong Kong schools has been rising, and the reservation fee has become higher and higher, which has attracted many students to "complain". The editor searched on the Internet, and HKU and CUHK basically tied for the first place on the complaining list, a pair of "Sleeping Dragons and Phoenix Chicks".
The tuition fee for the Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management (IELM) major of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Hong Kong is 280,000 yuan for the whole year, and the reservation fee will be half of the tuition fee, which is 140,000 yuan!
Another well-known major of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Hong Kong, Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), also has a reservation fee of 140,000 yuan. It just so happens that CUHK has a similar master's programme, the Master of Electronic Engineering (EE), and the tuition fee for the whole year is only 174,000 yuan.
In such a comparison, the student was so angry that he didn't know what to say, and hurried to pay the money before the exchange rate soared.
This also tells us an experience, if you want to save some money by paying the reservation fee (the same goes for tuition), you must remember to pay attention to the exchange rate fluctuations in the two weeks during the deadline.
It is also a major in the School of Engineering, and the financial technology reservation fee of CUHK is also a "huge amount", 170,000 yuan is really too much!
Business schools will never be absent from the "expensive" aspect.
The tuition fee for the Master of Global Management (MGM) at HKU is 390,000 yuan, because you can choose 1 or 2 years of study time, so the reservation fee is not directly 190,000 yuan, but 130,000 yuan is paid first.
It's just that engineering and business are so outrageous, but the retention fee for social science and liberal arts majors can always be better, right?
CUHK Public Policy majors have a retention fee of 85,000 yuan, and the Common Law (CL) of CUHK has a reservation fee of almost 80,000 yuan.
There is also a master's degree in new media at CUHK at a similar level, with a reservation fee of 82,000 yuan.
There are more than 70,000 of them for a slightly more moderate one, such as a major in the School of Social Sciences of CUHK.
In comparison, CityU, USTC, and most of the majors in the university are "down-to-earth".
A media major in CityU, you say that the fame and popularity are not bad, right?
HKUST's IT major has a reservation fee of 55,000 yuan, and the reservation fee for another major in the School of Engineering of HKUST is only more than 20,000 yuan!
Whoever reads it does not praise a "conscience".
The reservation fee for a certain major in PolyU's School of Engineering is 60,000 yuan, which is much better than that of HKU and CUHK.
The University has a reservation fee of $58,000 for the Public Policy and Management major.
On the whole, the amount of EdUHK is quite good, but until last year, the retention fee for most majors in the editor's mind has always been at the level of 1-30,000 yuan
In any case, not all Hong Kong school majors have sky-high retention fees.
On the whole, except for most of the business and a small part of the engineering, most of the professional reservation fees are 5-80,000 Hong Kong dollars. (A few medical specialties are too high to attain, so they will be ignored here)
The reservation fee in the UK and Singapore has not risen?
Universities in the United Kingdom and Singapore, which also adopt the Commonwealth education system, have made the "Minato Liuzi" envious on the question of how much to pay for a place.
Although it is also necessary to pay a reservation fee, the amount may not increase in a few years, it is relatively stable, and it takes a long time for students to consider.
The reservation fee for British universities is generally 1000-2000 pounds, which is 9000-18000 RMB when converted into RMB.
After receiving the offer, students will be given a 1-3 month consideration period. There are even some master's programs that do not require students to pay a place fee, and only need to pay the tuition fee normally after the admission is confirmed.
The fees for master's degree programs in Singapore universities are also very stable, with little increase this year compared to last year.
The retention fee for most majors is around S$5,000, with more expensive ones costing S$10,000 and cheaper ones costing S$2,000. According to the current exchange rate, it is converted into RMB 1-50,000 RMB.
Nanyang Technological University S$2,000
Anyway, as long as there are no 100,000 at every turn, it is humane here in the editor
In recent years, more and more people have complained about the reservation fee system of Hong Kong schools.
In fact, Hong Kong schools did not have such regulations at first, but later found that some students liked to "pigeon" to drop their places, so they gradually implemented the "reservation fee", hoping to determine students' willingness to study through "money", and then reasonably arrange courses and other teaching resources.
Nowadays, the "reservation fee" has become a common practice for Hong Kong school admissions (for all students). Moreover, as the popularity of studying in Hong Kong increases, the amount of the reservation fee may become more and more "exaggerated".
Therefore, you must think carefully when you pay the money, once you pay, it is not easy to get the school to return it.
Finally, what do you think about the reservation fee for Hong Kong schools? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss~