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Course Registration

During the first year of your study, we will pre-register all required core courses for you, i.e., you do not have to register for the required core courses yourself.

In general, if you are:

  1. local students, we will pre-register the required core courses for you based on the premise that you will study in part-time mode unless you inform us otherwise.

  2. non-local students, we will pre-register the required core courses for you based on the study mode (part-time or full-time) that you have indicated on your admission application.

  3. Part-time Mode

    For students studying in part-time mode, the normal study load per semester in the first year of study is 2 courses and EF5063 “Professional Seminars” (a year-long course that students will take in the first year).

    Hence, the following required core courses will be pre-registered for you:

    Course
    MSF
    MSFE
    MSFS
    Semester A, 2015/2016
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    Semester B, 2015/2016
    ✔
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    ✔

     

  4. Full-time Mode

    For students studying in full-time mode, the normal study load per semester in the first year of study is 4 or 5 courses and EF5063 “Professional Seminars” (a year-long course that students will take in the first year).

    Hence, the following required core courses will be pre-registered for you:

    Course
    MSF
    MSFE
    MSFS
    Semester A, 2015/2016
    ✔
    ✔
    ✔
    ✔
    ✔
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    ✔
    ✔
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    Semester B, 2015/2016
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    Important Notes

    The pre-registration of required core courses is made for you in accordance with your mode of study indicated to the University. In case that you may not follow a normal study pattern to take the required core courses as listed, you should notify the Postgraduate Unit of the Department of Economics and Finance accordingly.

    Furthermore, for any registration of elective courses or to change the courses (or sections) that we have pre-registered for you, you should follow the course add/drop procedure described in “Course Add/Drop”.

Elective Courses available in 2015/2016

Subject to the approval of the Department and the offering departments if appropriate, students can choose two elective courses from:

  1. (a) the Department,

  2. (b) consortium courses offered by other departments of the College of Business, or

  3. (c) courses other than the “consortium courses” offered by other departments of the College of Business or even from other Colleges/Schools in the University.

Generally speaking, full-time students will take the 2 elective courses during Semester A, Semester B or Summer Term (no core courses will be offered in Summer Term).
Examples:

Full-time Students
(1-year study)
Sem A
Sem B
OR
Sem A / B
Summer Term
1 Elective
1 Elective
1 Elective
1 Elective*

For part-time students, they usually take elective courses in the Summer Term of their first year of study and also in their second year of study.
Examples:

Part-time Students
(2-year study)
Year 1 Summer Term
Year 2 Sem B
OR
Year 2 Sem A
Year 2 Sem B
1 Elective*
1 Elective
1 Elective
1 Elective

* Students are advised to take 1 elective course in Summer Term, as it is offered in an intensive mode (i.e. 2 class meetings per week per course).

(a) Courses offered by the EF Department in 2015/2016 primarily for MSc students in Finance, Financial Engineering and Financial Services programmes7.

EF Courses
Semester
Summer term
A
B
Core courses for MSF, MSFE and MSFS
EF5063
✔
✔
✔
EF5042
✔
 
 
EF5050
✔
✔
 
EF5052
✔
✔
 
Core course for both MSF and MSFE
EF5157
✔
✔
 
Core courses for MSF8
EF5070
✔
 
 
EF5142
✔
✔
 
EF5143
✔
✔
 
Core courses for MSFE
EF5210
✔
✔
 
EF5213
 
✔
 
MA5182
✔
 
 
Core courses for MSFS
EF5340^
Credit Risk Management9
(proposedly taught by Dr. Lam Yat Fai)
 
✔
 
EF5342
Monetary and Financial Systems9
 
✔
 
EF5343
 
✔
 
EF5370
✔
 
 

 

EF Courses
Semester
Summer term
A
B
Elective courses for MSF, MSFE and MSFS
AC5803
Financial Statement Analysis10
 
✔
 
EF5010
Economics for Business11
 
✔
✔
EF5083^
Operational Risk Management for Financial Institutions
(proposedly taught by Mr. Frederick Au)
 
 
✔
EF5064^
Auditing and Control for Financial Institutions11
(proposedly taught by Dr. DH Fung)
✔
 
 
EF5300
Advanced Personal Finance11
 
✔
 
EF5341^
Bank Management in the Global Market
(proposedly taught by Mr. Jonathan Cheung & Mr. Philippe Delhaise)
✔
 
 
EF5410^
Seminar in Selected Topics in Economics/Finance
(proposedly taught by Dr. DH Fung & several practitioners)
 
✔
 

^ These courses will be taught by some well-experienced practitioners and adjunct professors in order to help students learn about the current industry practice and keep up with the latest developments in the markets.


(b) Consortium courses offered by other departments of the College of Business in 2015/2016**

The College of Business consists of six departments: Accountancy, Economics and Finance, Information Systems, Management, Management Sciences, Marketing. “Consortium courses” are courses offered by these departments for all postgraduate students within the College.
(Prior approval by Head of EF Department is required if students choose consortium course as elective course.)

Consortium Courses**
Semester
Summer term
A
B
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** The courses listed will be offered tentatively in the coming academic year. However, it will be subject to change in accordance with the decision of the offering departments without further notice.

# 10 quotas of MS6711 Data Mining (offered by the Department of Management Sciences) are reserved for MSF/MSFE/MSFS students. For students who have strong quantitative/statistical background, they can consider choosing MS6711 as an elective course in Semester B. Please refer to the link above for detailed course syllabus.


(c) Courses other than the “consortium courses” offered by other departments of the College of Business or courses from other Colleges/Schools in the University

Subject to the approval of the Department of Economics and Finance and the offering departments, students may also choose the postgraduate courses other than the consortium courses offered in the College of Business or even other Colleges/Schools. For example, MSFE students who are interested in taking more quantitative courses may consider courses offered by the Department of Mathematics.

For courses offered by all the departments in the University, please visit
https://www.cityu.edu.hk/pg/current/catalogue/catalogue_TP.htm?page=TP/TP_course_index.htm.



7There are other postgraduate courses offered by the Department exclusively for MSc Applied Economics students. The list of these courses is available at https://www.cityu.edu.hk/pg/current/catalogue/catalogue_TP.htm?page=TP/TP_course_EF.htm.

8MSFE students can take these courses as their electives. In particular, MSFE students who do not have much statistics background are strongly encouraged to take EF5070 Econometrics as one of their electives.

9MSF and MSFE students can take these courses as their electives.

10Offering of this course is subject to change. AC5803 is offered by the Department of Accountancy, but it is opened exclusively for MSF/MSFE/MSFS students.

11These are consortium courses open to all postgraduate students within the College of Business.

Course Add/Drop

  1. Getting started

    Please activate your Electronic ID (EID) such that you can login to the CityU Portal and “AIMS”. Through “AIMS”, you can obtain various useful information including:

    1. your own timetable which lists the required core courses that we have pre-registered for you (you have to choose your elective courses by completing the Course Add/Drop Procedure), and

    2. the Master Class Schedule which lists all the courses offered by various departments in the semester.

    The Master Class Schedule and your own timetable will be released by the University in around late July / early August, 2015.12


  2. Course Add/Drop Procedure

    Courses are either web-enabled (i.e., you can register for the courses online and you have to follow a Web Add/Drop procedure  ) or non web-enabled (i.e., you cannot register for the courses online and you have to follow a Paper Add/Drop procedure  ).

    1. For web-enabled courses, the online add/drop period is from 17 August, 2015 to 7 September, 2015.12

    2. For non web-enabled courses, the paper add/drop period is from 3 August, 2015 to 7 September, 2015.12


  3. Where to find your own timetable
    1. Login to AIMS with your EID and password.
    2. Select the “Course Registration” menu.
    3. Click “My Detail Schedule” to display details of your class schedule or “Weekly Schedule” to view your class schedule in a table format.

  4. Where to find the Master Class Schedule
    1. Login to CityU Portal with your EID and password.
    2. Students can find the “Master Class Schedule” under “Student” → “Academic Services”.
    3. Select the “Term” and then click “Submit Term”.
    4. Select “Postgraduate Degree” as the level and “Economics & Finance” as the offering academic unit. Click “Search Class”. It is optional to select the “Session”, “Start Time”, “End Time” and “Days”.
    5. All the courses offered by the Department of Economics and Finance for the selected
      semester / term will be displayed.

12Students will be notified of the exact dates of the Course Add/Drop period by Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies (SGS) via email.

Tuition Fee & Payment Schedule

  1. Tuition Fee

    The tuition fee for the academic year 2015/2016 is HK$6,580 per credit unit.


  2. Payment Schedule for New Students in Semester A 2015/2016

    • The non-refundable Acceptance Fee (HK$26,320) that you have paid at the time of admission is equivalent to 4 credit units and it will be credited towards the tuition fee upon your enrolment in the University.

    • The balance of the tuition fee required for the first semester of your study will be collected after the course add/drop period and the payment due date is around early October, 2015.


  3. Payment Schedule afterwards

    • After the first semester of your study, you will have to pay the tuition fee in two installments in each semester (“semester” refers to Semesters A and B).

    • For Semester B 2015/2016, the payment schedule is as follows:
      - 1st Installment (tuition fee of two credit units) – mid January, 2016
      - 2nd Installment (balance of tuition fee for Semester B) – mid/late February, 2016

    • For the Summer Term, you have to pay the tuition fee in full once. The payment due date for the Summer Term of 2016 is around early July, 2016.
      Please visit https://www6.cityu.edu.hk/FO/htm/TPg_PaySchedule.htm for updated information.


  4. Payment Methods

    Please refer to https://www6.cityu.edu.hk/FO/htm/PayMethods.htm for information.


  5. Account Summary

    Students can retrieve their e-receipt, view their account summary and due date for payment in AIMS under “Student Record” → “My Finance”.
    For details of information, please visit https://www6.cityu.edu.hk/FO/htm/TPg_Fees.htm.


  6. Fees Certification

    Enquires about payment record or other payment certification can be made to the Finance Office. Any issue relating to fees certification can be made by appointment to the Finance Office. Please note that e-receipt will be posted monthly in AIMS (under “My Finance” of “Student Record” tab) and is available for viewing for 12 months. Students are recommended to print the receipt for future use.

Continuing Education Fund (CEF)

  • Eligible to:          HK residents who have the right of abode or the right to land or to remain
                        in HK without restriction
  • Maximum subsidy:  HK$10,000
  • To apply and to obtain reimbursement, please follow the steps below.

 


* To apply CEF reimbursement, you are required to:
  • attain a pass in assessment(s) as prescribed for the CEF approved courses,
  • attend at least 70% of the class hours of the course(s) involved, and
  • settle the tuition fee of the course(s) involved.

 

CEF Office

Address
Room 916, 9/F, Kwai Hing Government Offices,
166 - 174 Hing Fong Road, Kwai Chung,
New Territories
Office Hours
Monday to Friday (except Public Holidays)
8:45 am to 1:00 pm & 2:00 pm to 5:45 pm
24-hour manned enquiry hotline
3142-2277
E-mail
Website