必須指出，一成外來本科生和七成外來研究生在世界級的大學並不罕見，罕見的是在香港，這些外來生幾近全部來自同一國家。

本土外來研究生一視同仁受資助亦是大學間的慣例，而本科資助則因地區而異。現在的問題是香港政府不是民選，所以資助外來生是沒有社會共識下推行的。

It should be pointed out that having 10% undergraduates and 70% graduate students being foreign are common among world-class universities. What so special in Hong Kong is that virtually all these foreign students came from the same country.

It is also common to subsidize local and foreign graduate students alike, while the practice regarding undergraduates varies. The problem in Hong Kong is that with a government essentially appointed instead of elected, the policy of subsidizing foreign students lack public consent.