What is Minor
"Minor" or "Minor programme" means the study requirements for a single minor area of disciplinary, interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary study, accumulating not fewer than 36 credits nor more than 48 credits, as prescribed in the syllabuses for a degree curriculum.List of Minors by Faculties / Units
Common Core Office
Faculty of Architecture
Faculty of Arts
- African Studies (2023-24 cohort and earlier)
- American Studies (2023-24 cohort and earlier)
- Arabic
- Art History (2021-22 cohort and onwards)
- Buddhist Studies
- China Studies (Arts stream) (2023-24 cohort and earlier)
- Chinese History and Culture
- Chinese Language and Culture
- Chinese Language and Literature
- Comparative Literature
- Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (2025-26 cohort and onwards)
- English Studies
- European Studies (2023-24 cohort and earlier)
- French
- Gender Studies
- General Linguistics
- German
- History
- Hong Kong Studies
- Italian
- Japanese Culture
- Japanese Language
- Korean Studies
- Music
- Philosophy
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
- Translation
Faculty of Business & Economics
Faculty of Education
- Education (2023-24 cohort and onwards)
- Information Management (2023-24 cohort and onwards)
- Social Data Science (2025-26 cohort and onwards)
Faculty of Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering (2026-27 cohort and onwards)
- Data and Systems Engineering (2025-26 cohort and onwards)
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management (2024-25 cohort and earlier)
- Innovation and Design
- Mechanical Engineering
- Robotics and Intelligent Systems (2025-26 cohort and onwards)
- Urban Infrastructure Informatics
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Science
- Actuarial Studies
- Astronomy
- Biochemistry
- Chemistry (2026-27 cohort and onwards)
- Computational & Financial Mathematics
- Earth Sciences
- Ecology & Biodiversity
- Environmental Science
- Food & Nutritional Science
- Marine Biology
- Mathematics
- Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
- Operations Research & Mathematical Programming
- Physics
- Risk Management
- Science Entrepreneurship
- Statistics
Faculty of Social Sciences
- China Studies (Social Sciences stream) (2024-25 cohort and earlier)
- Cognitive Science
- Computational Social Science (2025-26 cohort and onwards)
- Counselling
- Criminology
- Geography
- Geospatial Data Science (2025-26 cohort and onwards)
- Human Resource Management
- Media & Cultural Studies
- Neuroscience
- Politics & Public Administration
- Psychology
- Social Policy and Social Development
- Sociology
- Urban Governance
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School of Future Media - Journalism and Media Studies (2025-26 cohort and earlier)
- Journalism, Media and Artificial Intelligence (2024-25 cohort and onwards)
School of Computing & Data Science
- Computer Science (2024-25 cohort and earlier)
- Computer Science (2025-26 cohort)
- Computer Science (2026-27 cohort and onwards)
- Risk Management
- Statistics
List of Minors by Subjects
The following programmes can be taken as minor:- Accounting
- Actuarial Studies
- Aerospace Engineering (2026-27 cohort and onwards)
- African Studies (2023-24 cohort and earlier)
- American Studies (2023-24 cohort and earlier)
- Arabic
- Architectural Studies
- Art History (2021-22 cohort and onwards)
- Astronomy
- Biochemistry
- Biomedical Data Science
- Biotechnology and Clinical Research
- Buddhist Studies
- Business and Economy in China
- Chemistry (2026-27 cohort and onwards)
- China Studies (Arts stream) (2023-24 cohort and earlier)
- China Studies (Social Sciences stream) (2024-25 cohort and earlier)
- Chinese History and Culture
- Chinese Language and Culture
- Chinese Language and Literature
- Cognitive Science
- Comparative Literature
- Computational & Financial Mathematics
- Computational Social Science (2025-26 cohort and onwards)
- Computer Science (2024-25 cohort and earlier)
- Computer Science (2025-26 cohort)
- Computer Science (2026-27 cohort and onwards)
- Conservation
- Counselling
- Creative Arts (CA)
- Criminology
- Data and Systems Engineering (2025-26 cohort and onwards)
- Digital Health
- Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (2025-26 cohort and onwards)
- Earth Sciences
- Ecology & Biodiversity
- Economics
- Education (2023-24 cohort and onwards)
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- English Studies
- Environmental Engineering
- Environmental Science
- European Studies (2023-24 cohort and earlier)
- Finance
- Food & Nutritional Science
- French
- Gender Studies
- Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity (GSD)
- General Linguistics
- Genetics and Genomics
- Geography
- Geospatial Data Science (2025-26 cohort and onwards)
- Geotechnical Engineering
- German
- Global Development in Asia
- Global Health
- History
- Hong Kong Studies
- Human Resource Management
- Human Resource Management
- Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management (2024-25 cohort and earlier)
- Information Management (2023-24 cohort and onwards)
- Information Systems and Analytics
- Innovation and Design
- Italian
- Japanese Culture
- Japanese Language
- Journalism and Media Studies (2025-26 cohort and earlier)
- Journalism, Media and Artificial Intelligence (2024-25 cohort and onwards)
- Kinesiology
- Korean Studies
- Landscape Studies
- Marine Biology
- Marketing
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Media & Cultural Studies
- Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
- Music
- Neuroscience
- Operations Research & Mathematical Programming
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Politics & Public Administration
- Portuguese
- Psychology
- Risk Management
- Risk Management
- Robotics and Intelligent Systems (2025-26 cohort and onwards)
- Science Entrepreneurship
- Social Data Science (2025-26 cohort and onwards)
- Social Policy and Social Development
- Sociology
- Spanish
- Statistics
- Statistics
- Sustainability in Business
- Sustaining Cities, Cultures, and the Earth (SCCE)
- Swedish
- Thai
- The Human Life Span (HL)
- The Quest for a Meaningful Life (UQM)
- Translation
- Urban Governance
- Urban Infrastructure Informatics
- Urban Studies
* Note: Students pursuing curricula with major / minor programme(s) must complete at least one major programme from their home Faculties upon graduation. Disclaimer: The information mainly applies to students admitted in 2026-27 and thereafter. For students from different cohorts, the information is only for reference. Please check with Faculty/offering department for details. The pre-requisite requirements / conditions are subject to changes by Faculties from time to time, and students are advised to check with their Faculty Office in case of doubt.
