The Governmentannounced on December 28, 2025 that the annually updated aggregate list of eligible universities under the Top Talent Pass Scheme (TTPS) will take effect on January 1, 2026.
Four universities were removed, and five new universities were added, increasing the total number from 199 to 200.
The newly added universities include Adelaide University in Australia, the University of Vienna in Austria, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, Politecnico di Milano in Italy, and King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in Saudi Arabia.
The four universities removed include three French universities: Ecole Polytechnique, Université Grenoble Alpes, and Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite-USPC, and the University of Freiburg in Germany.
The TTPS aims to attract talent in the following three categories:
Category A: persons with annual income reaching HK$2.5 million or above in the year immediately preceding the date of application;
Category B: full-time bachelor’s degree graduates of the universities/institutions prescribed in the aggregate list (eligible universities/institutions) with at least three years of work experience over the past five years immediately preceding the date of application; or
Category C: full-time bachelor’s degree graduates of eligible universities/institutions in the past five years immediately preceding the date of application with less than three years of work experience.
