Overview

Programme Aims

To produce graduates with expertise that cuts across core disciplines of mathematics, statistics, finance and computer science. It emphasizes the critical arc that runs from financial data to information, information to knowledge, and knowledge to decision making.

Career Prospects

The Investment Science and Finance Analytics (Honours) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is designed to develop students’ ability in quantitative analysis, data analytics, critical thinking and communication skills that enable our graduates to pursue careers in business and finance-related fields such as investment banking, fund management, risk management and financial product development and pricing.

In addition to the finance-related fields, our programme also supports graduates pursuing careers in information technology, scientific-research, education, marketing and consultancy. Many of our graduates have found employment in prestigious financial institutions and renowned corporations throughout the Asia Pacific area.

Programme Structure

Year One: Students study the general university requirement (GUR) subjects and subjects common to the Scheme, such as calculus, multivariable calculus, linear algebra, probability and distributions, and programming fundamentals.
Year Two: Students are streamed into one of the two Majors under the Scheme based on their individual preferences.
Year Three: Students are expected to complete most of the major discipline-specific compulsory subjects, including statistical machine learning, big data analytics, decision analysis and optimisation methods for the Data Science and Analytics programme
Year Four: Students have the flexibility to choose their major discipline-specific elective subjects from a large pool in the fields of statistics, data science, computing science, finance and investment, health and medical informatics and urban informatics.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-06 00:00:00

More details

Local Jupas: 4 December: Deadline for submission of Jupas applications.

Language

English

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80

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IELTS

6

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Credits

123 alternative credits

At least 123, depending on the student's qualifications (plus 2 training credits)

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR)

Disciplines

Finance Banking Investment View 33 other Bachelors in Finance in Hong Kong (SAR)

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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80

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Other requirements

General requirements

For those who are applying on the basis of A-Level qualifications: E in 3 A-Level subjects OR E in 2 A-Level and 2 AS-Level subjects;

For those who are applying on the basis of International Baccalaureate (IB): a minimum score of 24 with at least grade 4 in 2 Higher Level (HL) subjects;

For those who are applying on the basis of other qualifications: an appropriate Diploma passed with credit or an appropriate Higher Certificate from a recognised institution; an appropriate Associate Degree / Higher Diploma from a recognised institution; holder of other non-local qualifications (please refer to our Guidelines on Non-local Qualifications for more details about our general requirements for such qualifications)

Satisfy the English Language Requirement.

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Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

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Non-residents

175000 HKD / year

≈ 175000 HKD / year
Domestic Applies to you

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Citizens or residents

44500 HKD / year

≈ 44500 HKD / year

Living costs

Hong Kong

Hong Kong (SAR)

13720 - 23419 HKD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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Overview

Programme Aims

Career Prospects

Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

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Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

Disciplines

What students do after studying

Academic requirements

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

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Tuition Fees

International Applies to you

Domestic Applies to you

Living costs

Hong Kong

Funding

Scholarships Information

Available Scholarships

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