# Hong Kong EDB adjusts non-local admission ceilings for 2026/27

Revisiting the implemented changes to non-local and self-financing postgraduate ceilings, and their relationship to admissions.

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# Hong Kong EDB adjusts non-local admission ceilings for 2026/27

Revisiting the implemented changes to non-local and self-financing postgraduate ceilings, and their relationship to admissions.

Issuing organisation
Hong Kong Education Bureau · 2025 Policy Address initiatives
Original publication date
2025-09-17
Compiled on
2026-10-31

## Key information

The EDB document raises the self-financing non-local ceiling for funded institutions’ taught programmes from 40% to 50% of local places, and the self-financing over-enrolment ceiling for funded research postgraduate programmes from 100% to 120%, from 2026/27.

## Original sources
- [Hong Kong Education Bureau · 2025 Policy Address initiatives ](https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/about-edb/press/legco/policy-address/2025-PA-Panel-paper_eng.pdf)

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