CUHK Medicine wins more JUPAS applicants; HKU snatches two perfect top scorers

A total of 339 top scorers from this year’s Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams successfully enrolled into the medicine programs at either the Chinese University of Hong Kong or the University of Hong Kong through the Joint University Programmes Admissions System (JUPAS). 

Via JUPAS, 207 are admitted to the medicine program at CUHK, while the remaining 132 at HKU. Both have an overall intake of 295 for their medicine programs. 

The 207 students admitted to CU Medicine account for over 70 percent of the school’s total intake. The other 88 are candidates from this year’s International Baccalaureate exams. 

As for HKU, only 132 are admitted to the medicine program via JUPAS, accounting for 45 percent of the overall intake. 

The number is much less than the 75 percent JUPAS-admitted ratio HKU earlier promised, marking the eighth consecutive year the school fails to achieve the goal. 

As for this year’s four DSE perfect scorers, two are admitted to HKU while one to CUHK. The last one will study abroad as planned before. 

HKU said it admitted over 40 percent of the top 1 percent of DSE candidates in Hong Kong, totaling 102 students. 

HKU also admitted nearly a hundred students through the School Nominations Direct Admission Scheme, as well as 19 athletes through the long-standing Sports Scholarship Scheme. 

Among nearly 40,000 JUPAS applicants, about 40 percent, or 16,149, are admitted to the city’s eight government-funded universities and the Hong Kong Metropolitan University.