Characteristics

• Employs a mentor-based approach with an emphasis on both traditional scholarship and creative innovation.
• Students' research activities encompass many different kinds of art and media creation with an emphasis on new media.
• Highly interdisciplinary programme - Students' research deploys methodologies from the sciences, humanities and social sciences.
• Current full-time PhD students are funded either through the Hong Kong PhD Fellowships (HKPFS) or by studentships.

Research areas of SCM

• Animation
• Film, Video, & Photography
• HCI & Computer Graphics
• Media & Cultural Studies
• New Media Art & Installation
• Physical Computing & Fabrication
• Playable Media
• Socially & Ecologically Engaged Art
• Software Art, Machine Learning & AI
• Sound Art

APPLICATION

Step 1
Check Entrance Requirements and Admission Handbook for Research Degree Programmes, especially for the requirements on research proposal, with the Research Proposal Information Sheet.

Step 2
Identify a potential research supervisor

Send the following materials to the potential supervisor to initiate discussion, obtain their agreement to be your potential research supervisor and put their name in Research Proposal Information Sheet.

Please note:

• Consent from a faculty member as your potential research supervisor does not imply successful application.
• Application without proposed research supervisor will not be processed.

Step 3
Decide which funding scheme you should apply to:

• Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS)
  • If you are a strong candidate, we encourage you to apply to this scheme. Please also discuss this with your potential research supervisor.
  • The Fellowship provides a monthly stipend of HK$28,100 (~US$3,600) and a conference and research related travel allowance of HK$14,000 (~US$1,790) per year for three years. CityUHK will provide a monthly studentship at the same level as the Fellowship for the fourth year (subject to review and revision).
  • Annual tuition fee: HK$42,096 (full-time). HKPFS recipients will receive the “Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies Entrance Scholarship” (around HK$89,496/~US$11,473), which covers students’ full-time tuition fees and on-campus hostel accommodation expenses in their first year.
  • Details
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  • Examples of successful HKPFS applicants:

    Janina Hoth	Aki Nagasaka	Olga Timurgalieva
    Mankun Liu	Megan Marie Olinger

• University Studentship
  • Monthly studentship: HK$17,800 (rate for 2023/24; subject to review and revision). See this page for more details.
  • Annual tuition fee: $42,096 (full-time)
  • Details

• Self-Financed
  • Annual tuition fee: HK$84,192 / HK$120,600 (non-local) (full-time)

Step 4
Apply:

• Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS)
  • Please go to this page and follow the section "Application Process and Timelines".
  • Application deadline: 1 December.

• University Studentship
  • Please go to this page to apply.
  • Application deadline: 1 December.

• Self-Financed
  • Please go to this page to apply.
  • Application deadline (2025 entry):

    Commencement date of study	Application deadline to the School of Creative Media
    1 September (Semester A)	1 December 2024
    1 January (Semester B)	30 June 2025

Step 5
Result announcement for studentship recipients: March to June of the following year

Course Structure

• Programme Curriculum
• Available courses