Students are admitted to the senior year of the 4-year degree programme. They must complete all of the Major and General University Requirement (GUR) subjects to fulfil the credit requirement for graduation, except those who are given credit transfers due to their prior study. 
 

Major subjects (51 credits)

It comprises Compulsory Subjects and Elective Subjects as listed below:

Compulsory Subjects (total 39 credits)

• Accounting for Decision Making
• Artificial Intelligence
• Business Finance
• Capstone Project
• Chinese for Professional Communication in Computing
• Computer Systems Security
• Emerging Topics in FinTech
• E-Payment and Cryptocurrency
• Financial Accounting
• Introduction to Economics
• Machine Learning  
• Professional Communication for Computing Students
• Professionalism and Ethics in Data Science and AI
• Software Engineering

Elective Subjects (At least 4 subjects with total 12 credits)

• Algorithms Engineering
• Artificial Intelligence of Things
• Big Data Analytics  
• Business and Information Systems Strategies
• Business Intelligence and Customer Relationship Management
• Business Process and Workflow Management
• Computational Finance
• Computer Vision
• Corporate Finance
• Data Mining and Data Warehousing  
• Database Security
• Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• E-Business
• E-Commerce Technology and Applications
• Extended Reality: Theory and Practice
• Information Retrieval
• Information Systems Audit and Control
• Information Systems Development
• Intellectual Property Protection and Management
• Introduction to Marketing
• Investments
• IT Entrepreneurship
• Knowledge and Information Management
• Mobile Computing
• Mobile Security: Principles and Practice
• Operations Research and Logistics Management
• Principles and Practice of Internet Security
• Service and Cloud Computing
• Service Learning and Civic Engagement in the Information Age
• Social and Collaborative Computing
• Software Project Management
• Web Application Design and Development 

General University Requirements Subjects^ (9 credits)

a. 6 credits in Cluster-Area Requirement (CAR)

Students should not take more than 3 credits from the same cluster area.  They also need to fulfil the English and Chinese reading and writing requirements. Students may apply for a waiver if they have fulfilled the English and Chinese reading and writing requirements in their previous studies.  

b. 3 credits in Service-Learning  

c. Essential Components of General Education (a non-credit bearing subject)

Students will be required to take the General Education which comprises of National Education, Online Tutorials in Academic Integrity, Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (AIDA) and Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IE) e-modules.

^ Extra credit bearing subject - Students not meeting the equivalent standard of the Undergraduate Degree Language Communication Requirements (LCR) based on their previous studies in AD/HD programmes and their academic performance will be required to take additional credits (English and/or Chinese) on top of the programme's normal credit requirements. 

Work-Integrated Education

To graduate, every student must complete at least 312 hours of Work-Integrated Education (WIE). The department has developed opportunities for students to work in accounting or financial firms during summer in Hong Kong or the Chinese mainland. These, and other forms of work experience, can count towards the WIE requirement.