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How does the UGC allocate the research postgraduate places for the 2016-19 triennium?
The UGC continues to allocate 5 595 RPg places according to the six methods for the 2016-19 triennium, as follows:
| a. | 405 places to be allocated to the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS); |
| b. | 600 places to be allocated on the basis of past award results of the RGC funding schemes; | c. | 600 places to be allocated on the basis of the Research Assessment Exercise 2014; | d. | 600 places to be allocated based on an outcome-based evaluation of research postgraduate programmes of universities; | e. | 600 places to be allocated by the expansion of the HKPFS and/or by the past award results of the RGC funding schemes; and | f. | the remaining 2 790 places to be allocated based on the historical ratio of distribution. |