Hong Kong Future Talents Scholarship Scheme for Advanced Studies

On the Donor

Under the Future Talents Scholarship Scheme (FTSS), scholarships will be awarded to up to 1200 eligible students pursuing the designated TPg programmes in each academic year. Around 1000 awardees will be pursuing programmes to be offered by the UGC-funded universities while the rest will be for students of self-financing universities. The UGC is responsible for administering the FTSS in respect of TPg programmes to be offered by the UGC-funded universities. The ratio is subject to adjustment from time to time.

Purpose and Scope

The eligible TPg programmes will remain self-financing in nature, i.e. a mix of self-financing and scholarship students will be admitted in the same TPg programmes. The scholarship awardees shall pay a minimum tuition fee being the prevailing rate of the UGC-funded full-time degree programmes, and the differences will be subsidised by the scholarships subject to a cap of HK$100,000 for each student regardless of the actual study period of the programme and mode of study.

Priority Areas and Eligibility of Programmes:

1. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
2. Digital transformation and innovation
   
3. Hong Kong as an international trading and financial centre
   
4. Law, dispute resolution and intellectual property trading
   
5. East-meets-West cultural exchanges and humanities
   
6. Creative industries
   
7. Healthy living and caring community
   
8. Sustainable city and regional development