Financial Assistance Scheme for Post-secondary Students (FASP)
Summary of Statistics

Academic Year 2009/2010 2010/2011 2011/2012
(as at 31.01.2012)
No. of eligible students
- Sub-degree / degree students
- Top-up degree students@
Total
57 226
4 647
61 873
63 133
6 220
69 353
63 190
6 800
69 990
No. of applications
- received
- with results issued
25 731
25 731
28 133
28 133
27 596
19 409
No. of applicants
- with assistance offered
- with assistance paid
- with grant offered
- with grant paid
- with loan offered*
- with loan paid*
20 811
20 497
20 729
20 427
20 742
9 057
22 919
22 515
22 867
22 467
22 821
9 833
16 990
13 663
16 965
13 418
16 984
5 642
Average amount paid
- assistance
- grant
- loan*
$45 799
$34 606
$25 599
$46 643
$35 287
$26 177
$49 668
$39 168
$27 129
Total amount of
- grant offered
- grant paid
- loan offered*
- loan paid*
$712.69m
$706.90m
$551.03m
$231.85m
$800.14m
$792.78m
$614.18m
$257.40m
$728.33m
$525.55m
$542.45m
$153.06m

@

 Starting from 2008/09, the FASP was extended to cover sub-degree graduates pursuing full-time locally-accredited self-financing degree or top-up degree programmes.
* Starting from 2008/09, means-tested loans was provided under the FASP to cover the students’ living expenses.