The Faculty offers this dual degree programme aiming for an initial cohort in the 2019-2020 academic year. Successful study on the four-year dual degree programme will give students two Bachelor's degrees from two highly respected international universities – one from U.S.A. –Columbia University – and one from Asia – The University of Hong Kong (HKU). Students will spend the first two years at HKU and the third and fourth years at Columbia University. Students will complete much of the compulsory courses of the major at HKU and they will have some credits of disciplinary electives to complete and to pursue a second major or minor, or free electives at Columbia University. Credits gained overseas will be transferred towards the student’s HKU degree. Students will earn a Bachelor of Social Sciences from HKU, and a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University.