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Summary of Announcement and Acceptance of Offers Arrangements

Funding Category of Offers Date of Announcement (2025)* Medium of Announcement Deadline for Payment of Acceptance Fee (2025)* Procedures for Acceptance of Offers Payment Channels Notes to Applicants with Offers
Main Round

Each successful applicant will receive only ONE offer from:

Either

  • a UGC-funded 
    programme; or

  • an HKMU self-financing programme; or

  • an SSSDP programme

6 Aug (Wed)
(9:00 am)

  1. Applicants' JUPAS accounts

  2. Websites of the 9 JUPAS participating-institutions

  3. SMS Note 1, 2 & 3

7 Aug (Thu)
(5:00 pm)

  1. PAY the acceptance fee of HK$5,000; and

  2. COMPLETE registration / enrolment procedures within the designated period as specified by the institutions offering applicants admissions

  1. FPS Note 4

  2. PPS by Internet Note 4

  3. Cash (BEA) Note 5

  4. E-banking (HSBC / Hang Seng Bank / BEA)

Applicants who receive offers Note 6, regardless of whether they accept or decline their offers, will NOT be reconsidered for admission to any other programmes under JUPAS in the same academic year (2025 – 2026) Note 7.

Reconsideration of Application Based on Upgraded HKDSE Examination Results on Subject Levels / Grades after Rechecking and Remarking

Each successful applicant will receive only ONE offer from:

Either

  • a UGC-funded
    programme; or

  • an HKMU self-financing programme; or

  • an SSSDP programme

21 Aug (Thu)
(9:00 am)

  1. Applicants' JUPAS accounts

  2. Email Note 1 & 8

  3. SMS Note 1, 2 & 3

21 Aug (Thu)
(5:00 pm)

  1. PAY the acceptance fee of HK$5,000 Note 9; and

  2. COMPLETE registration / enrolment procedures within the designated period as specified by the institutions offering applicants admissions

  1. FPS

  2. PPS by Internet

  3. Cash (BEA) Note 5

Applicants who receive offers Note 6, regardless of whether they accept or decline their offers, will NOT be reconsidered for admission to any other programmes under JUPAS in the same academic year (2025 – 2026).

Clearing Round (only applicable to those without Main Round offers)

Each successful applicant will receive only ONE offer from:

Either

  • a UGC-funded 
    programme; or

  • an HKMU self-financing programme; or

  • an SSSDP programme

26 Aug (Tue)
(9:00 am)

  1. Applicants' JUPAS accounts

  2. Email Note 1 & 8

  3. SMS Note 1, 2 & 3

26 Aug (Tue)
(5:00 pm)

  1. PAY the acceptance fee of HK$5,000; and

  2. COMPLETE registration / enrolment procedures within the designated period as specified by the institutions offering applicants admissions

  1. FPS

  2. PPS by Internet

  3. Cash (BEA) Note 5

Applicants who receive offers Note 6, regardless of whether they accept or decline their offers, will NOT be reconsidered for admission to any other programmes under JUPAS in the same academic year (2025 – 2026).

* Subject to change

Note 1

Emails and SMS are delivered via third party network providers and therefore the JUPAS Office is not responsible for any delay, loss, transfer, amendment or damage arising from the transmission process via third party network providers.  Should there be any discrepancies between information contained in emails and SMS and applicants' JUPAS accounts, the information contained in the latter (i.e. the JUPAS accounts) shall prevail.  Applicants are strongly advised to log in to their JUPAS accounts to double-check the related information.

Note 2

Since important messages and correspondence from the JUPAS Office, the 9 JUPAS participating-institutions and the SSSDP institutions will be sent via applicants' mobile phone numbers and / or mailing addresses, applicants SHOULD NEVER share their mobile phone numbers or mailing addresses with other applicants in order to protect any information related to their JUPAS applications.

 

Note 3

SMS will be sent with the Registered SMS Sender ID of #JUPAS to a valid Hong Kong mobile phone number.  SMS to a Mainland mobile phone number will begin with 【JUPAS】.  

Note 4

Applicants who wish to accept the offer should log in to their JUPAS accounts from 10:30 am on 6 August 2025 to make the payment.  The JUPAS online application system will be temporarily unavailable during 3:00 am – 6:00 am daily for system maintenance.

Note 5

Please refer to the business hours for respective branches of BEA as they may differ. 

Note 6

The offers applicants received (if any) will be UGC-funded programmes, HKMU self-financing programmes, or SSSDP programmes.

Note 7

Except for applicants with upgraded HKDSE Examination results on subject levels / grades after rechecking and remarking (RR results) who submit requests for reconsideration of applications based on the RR results and are subsequently made "better" offers

Note 8

As email is one of the channels that the JUPAS Office, the 9 JUPAS participating-institutions and the SSSDP institutions will use to communicate with applicants, applicants must ensure that the setting of their personal email accounts will not filter out or place such correspondence in the trash / junk / spam folders.

Note 9

Applicants who have paid the acceptance fee for their Main Round offers NEED NOT pay the acceptance fee again for the "better" offers.  However, they MUST iog in to their JUPAS acoounts to indicate their acceptance of the "better" offers.