Living and commuting
Hong Kong is one of the world's most animated cities—and one of the most populous. During your stay, you’ll live and travel like a local; in small apartment-style accommodations and with a reasonable commute to CityU via Hong Kong’s ultra-efficient high speed trains. Option III students may be placed at a CityU residence hall, and all students have access to City University facilities, including a sports complex and an Olympic-sized pool. For more information about the City University of Hong Kong campus, please visit the City University website.
Meals are not included in your program fee, but Hong Kong offers a fantastic variety of dining options. On any given day, you can choose from CityU’s inexpensive cafeteria and snack bars, multiple options at the Festival Place mall (next to CityU), and a dizzying array of options in the city. Students can also prepare meals at home in their own kitchenettes.
Transportation
City University is located in Kowloon, only a few minutes walk from the MTR (Mass Transit Rail) and KCR (Kowloon-Canton Railway), Hong Kong’s inexpensive and efficient public transportation lines that provide easy access throughout the peninsula and the new territories. The famous Star Ferry shuttles regularly across beautiful Victoria Harbor to Hong Kong Island.
City Life and Travel
Hong Kong offers an abundance of cultural resources and entertainment—museums, theaters, art galleries, and restaurants of every variety. Because it is so easy and inexpensive to travel, you will also want to explore beyond the cosmopolitan city. More than 70 percent of Hong Kong is woodland, grass, and scrub. There are beaches, fishing villages, and rural communities where life has gone unchanged for centuries. While most of Hong Kong’s 235 outlying islands are uninhabited, others offer cultural treasures, such as the Po-Lin Monastery on Lantau.
