Hong Kong, HK · 12 months
CUHK MBA: cost, salary and payback
One fee of HK$620,000 for a 12-month or 16-month track, and almost nothing else in the open.
Paid back after graduation in
salary not published
Total cost $169,002
| Tuition and fees, whole program | $79,002 |
| Living budget | $0 |
| Salary given up, 12 months | $90,000 |
| Total cost | $169,002 |
| Salary after: salary | not published |
US dollars at the ECB rate of the last update. Raises of 5% a year with the MBA and 3% without, discounted at 5%, before tax. The school publishes no living budget: the figure above is yours. How this is calculated.
Fees and budget read on October 13, 2026 · employment: latest report (school standard) · Built by Radif Partners · Method
- Tuition and fees
- HK$620,000
- Total cost, salary given up included
- n/a
- Salary
- not published
- Payback, reference person
- not computable
The CUHK full-time MBA lists a single tuition of HK$620,000, about $79,002 at the ECB rate, whether you take the 12-month track or the 16-month one with an exchange or a dual degree. Beyond that figure, the school's open pages give very little: no budget for living in Hong Kong, no class profile and no current employment report, since the links to its former reports no longer work. Without a living budget or a salary, this page cannot give a total cost for the reference person earning $90,000 or a payback date, and our salary-based rankings leave CUHK out. What we can say is what the tuition and the months away add up to: at the reference salary, the 12 months cost $90,000 of pay, and the longer track $120,000, before rent and food. The homepage states that 93% of full-time graduates work in Asia, without saying which class.
One fee, two lengths
CUHK charges the same HK$620,000 whether the program takes 12 months or 16 with an exchange semester or a second degree. The fee does not change, but the salary you give up does: at $90,000 a year, the longer track costs about $30,000 more in pay you do not earn. For most people that makes the shorter track the cheaper one by a wide margin, unless the exchange or the second degree is the reason for choosing CUHK.
Tuition is billed in Hong Kong dollars. The converter below shows the dollar figure at today's rate and the cost in other currencies.
A fee or a salary in US dollars
In US dollars
$111,880
| 1 EUR | $1.119 |
ECB reference rate of October 13, 2026. Prices on the ground do not follow exchange rates one for one.
What the school does not publish
We looked for a living budget, a class profile and an employment report on the school's readable pages and found none of them. The class brochure sits behind a form, and the reports for earlier classes now return an error. The only employment figure left in the open is a line on the homepage: 93% of full-time graduates employed in Asia, with no year attached and no salary. An older banner on the same page gave a higher figure for an earlier class, which is a reminder that a headline share without a cohort cannot be compared with anything.
The school site mentions some entry scholarships, but we could not verify their amounts at the source, so we do not list them. On the share placed in Asia alone, CUHK appears at number 5 of 18 in our Asia ranking, which for regions weighs the share only.
CUHK: where the class went
Share of the class
93%
| Salary reported | not published |
| Graduates, about | n/a |
| Payback with that salary | n/a |
Reference person earning $90,000 before the MBA.
How to judge it without the data
If CUHK is on your list, ask admissions for the latest employment report with the median salary, the share of the class that answered the survey and the split by industry, and for the school's own estimate of living costs. Then type those figures into the calculator above. For a comparison inside Hong Kong, HKU and HKUST also have pages here, though neither publishes a graduate salary we could use. The one-year MBA ranking shows how short programs elsewhere in Asia compare when their data is complete.
Where CUHK stands in our rankings
- #5 of 18 · Working in Asia
Our fit score, reference person earning $90,000 before the MBA (method). Third-party rankings play no part in it. For reference, CUHK was ranked 65 in the FT Global MBA 2025.
What the CUHK MBA costs
| Item | HKD, and US dollars |
|---|---|
| Tuition, whole program | HK$620,000 $79,002 |
| Living budget | not published |
Where CUHK graduates went to work
| Region | Share | Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Asia | 93% | not published |
Not published by CUHK in the documents we read: a living budget for students; a graduate salary; the split of the class by industry; the split by job function. We leave these blank rather than fill them with an estimate.