The Associate Degree (AD) Programme is governed by the HKBU quality assurance policies and practices

Upon completion of the AD Programme, students will be awarded an Associate of Arts or an Associate of Science by HKBU

Since the establishment of the College, CIE has nurtured over ten thousand AD graduates who were successfully articulated to local and overseas undergraduate programmes

In the past 3 years, there were about two thousand AD graduates who undertook undergraduate studies in the eight UGC-funded local universities

The AD curriculum framework has adopted the HKBU UGC-funded Undergraduate Programme as a blueprint. Certain areas of Concentration Studies such as Music Studies, Visual Arts, Professional Accountancy, Journalism, as well as Sport and Recreation Studies are offered in collaboration with different Faculties/Schools of HKBU and taught by their lecturers