Guidelines and Procedures

1. Students should have checked from DegreeWorks their eligibility to graduate with their current curriculum in this semester/term.
    
2. Students must have earned a certain amount of credit units before they can apply for graduation.
   
   
   • For normative 4-year degree – a minimum of 90 credit units*
      
   • For Advanced Standing I – a minimum of 60 credit units
      
   • For Advanced Standing II – a minimum of 33 credit units

* for BVM students, they are required to earn at least 180 credit units for the application.

Students applying for graduation should submit an online application via AIMS.

To view a demonstration of the screens in AIMS for application for graduation, click HERE.
 

1. Login "AIMS".
    
2. Select "My Applications” under "Student Record".
    
3. Select "Graduation (For Bachelor's Degree Students Only)".
    
4. Read the “Application Guidelines and Procedures” before applying.
    
5. Confirm the curriculum information.
    
6. Verify the legal name and Chinese name.
    
7. Submit the application.
    
8. Follow-up with curriculum amendment and name updating if the information is incorrect.
    
9. You will receive a confirmation email after successfully submitted the application.  If you do not receive the confirmation email in 2 days, please contact our office by phone: 3442 2300 or via email: as@cityu.edu.hk within 1 week after you have submitted your application.
    
10. After you have successfully applied for graduation, you can view your graduation curriculum information online by clicking 'Graduation (For Bachelor's Degree Students Only)' again in AIMS.
     
11. To protect the own privacy; remember to exit from "AIMS" and logout from "Portal" before leaving the computer terminal.

     

* Tentative Date

No late application will be accepted.  Omission in submitting the application will cause delay in graduation.

Students who have applied for graduation and have the curriculum requirements met in that semester/term will be considered by the College/School Dean for appropriate award classification.  They will receive a congratulation email when the College/School Dean's decisions are available.  No withdrawal of application for graduation is allowed and these students cannot register for further courses in subsequent semesters/terms.
                     
             

Graduates of an academic year (Semester A and Semester B) will be invited to attend the College/School Commencement which will be held in May/June of that specific year. Graduates of Summer Term will be invited to attend the Commencement of the following year. Please visit the Commencement website for additional details closer to the event.
             

Students who have submitted an application but cannot graduate according to the academic curriculum that they confirmed during application for graduation in the expected graduation term are advised to contact their academic advisor for assistance.

Under such circumstance, a student may continue to study and defer graduation  to a future semester; and must submit another application via AIMS in the appropriate semester/term of graduation.  Please see the Frequently Asked Questions Section for various scenarios and answers.

In case a student would like to change his/her academic curriculum for graduation in the expected graduation term, provided the degree and home major requirements are met; he/she is required to submit an application for changing major/minor as well as applying for graduation as soon as possible but not later than the deadline specified below:


Deadline in 2023/24
1. 11 January 2024 for Semester A 2023/24
2. 14 May 2024 (Tentative) for Semester B 2023/24
3. 11 September 2024 for Summer Term 2024

Please download the application form and submit the completed form to ARRO before the deadline. No late application will be accepted due to time constraints.