Financial Assistance and Scholarships

Thanks for the generous donation from Chow Tai Fook Charity Foundation, the "Chow Tai Fook Charity Foundation Interest Free Loan Scheme" of the CIHE and CBCC  has been established to provide financial assistance in the form of "Interest Free Loan" to students in need. Apart from Bachelor's Degree students, the scheme offers loan to Higher Diploma and Diploma students who do not benefit from the Non-means-tested Subsidy Scheme for Self-financing Undergraduate Studies in Hong Kong (NMTSS) offered by the Hong Kong Government.

Please call 3653 6691 or email mleung@cihe.edu.hk for enquiries.

Four Higher Diploma programmes offered by CBCC are now under the support of Study Subsidy Scheme for Designated Professions/Sectors (SSSDP). Eligible students of Higher Diploma in Hospitality Management (HDHM), Higher Diploma in Design (HDD), Higher Diploma in Pharmaceutical Dispensing (HDPD) and Higher Diploma in Health Care (HDHC) programmes can receive the annual subsidy amount of $37,300 or $21,400 in the 2020/21 academic year. For subsidy amounts and tuition fee (before and after netting off the subsidy amounts) of respective programmes, please refer to the following table:

CIHE's Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) and Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Digital Entertainment are under SSSDP suport as well.  The subsidy amounts and tuition fee (before and after netting off the subsidy amounts) are as follows:

Starting from the 2019/20 academic year, the Government will provide a non-means-tested annual subsidy of HK$31,300 for eligible new and continuing students pursuing full-time locally-accredited local and non-local self-financing undergraduate (including top-up degree) programmes in Hong Kong (except for those enrolled in places already support under the Student Subsidy Scheme for Designated Professions/Sectors (SSSDP)) offered by eligible institutions participating in the scheme.

This scheme is administrated by the Student Finance Office of Student Financial Assistance Agency (SFAA – SFO) to provide means-tested financial assistance to needy full-time students pursuing locally-accredited, self-financing pose-secondary education programmes at the level of sub-degree or bachelor’s degree.

This scheme is administrated by the Student Finance Office of Student Financial Assistance Agency (SFAA – SFO) to complement the Financial Assistance Scheme for Post-secondary Students (FASP) to provide loan(s) to eligible students to settle tuition fees of locally-accredited, self-financing, full-time post-secondary education programmes at the level of sub-degree or bachelor’s degree.

Financial Assistance Agency (SFAA – SFO) to provide financial assistance in the form of loan(s) to BTEC HND, Diploma, Professional Diploma, and part-time sub-degree or bachelor’s degree students to settle tuition fees of self-financing programmes.

According with the spirit of Catholic ethos, we need to show our care and concern for the disadvantaged groups and the needy people. For students of CIHE and CBCC who cannot supported by the assistance of FASP and NLSPS, Caritas Student Financial Assistance Scheme (Lenten Fund) aims at reducing their financial burden for their study.