Admissions
Admissions to SCIE Arts academy 2025-2026
1. Admission Quotas
Grade Group: IGCSE students (G1)
Grade Equivalent: Students who have completed Junior 3 or Junior 2 in July 2025
Admission Quota: about 20 (Art & Music)
*Notes: G1 only accepts students born after January 1, 2009.
Entry Enquiries
- Music student
– Students whose main instrument should be from strings families (violin, viola, cello, double bass) or piano.
– Students must have at least Grade 7 in music (local exam board) or Grade 6 in Music (international exam boards e.g., ABRSM, LCM, RSL, Trinity, or equivalent).
- Art student
Students should be skilled in traditional skills of drawing and painting.
Apply Process
1. Make an enrollment application on the school page (School Website: www.scie.com.cn or WeChat Official Account: SCIE-2003)
(Please scan the QR code to follow us on WeChat)
* Start Date: Jan 6th, 2022
2. Submit your work online for prescreening between January 17th to March 7th, 2022.
3. The results of prescreening will be released on March 14th, 2022.
* If the candidate failed in the prescreening, he/she will be transferred to the traditional stream automatically.
4. Written Test on March 20th, 2022.
5. Publish the results of written test: March 25th, 2022.
* Students who pass the written test will attend the interview next weekend.
6. Interview on April 3rd, 2022.
* Interview and audition with the specialist. The music/art teacher will also test candidates’ English-speaking ability and overall quality during the audition.
SCIE would rank the candidates based on your specialist and English test result.
Portfolio Requirements
- For Music student
The candidate shall submit a prescreening recording which should include a personal statement and the instrumental performance, total a maximum of 10 minutes.
– For the personal statement, it shall be about 3-minute and in English. The content should include an introduction of yourselves, your artwork, and your creative interests. When the personal statement was recorded, you can start to perform.
– For the instrumental performance, please select two contrasting pieces of your choice, a maximum of 7 minutes. You may use equipment from home or school, or even use your mobile devices. The most important is that the sound quality of your recording is excellent and clearly show the student’s technique. The repertoire does not have to be memorized.
Then, please upload your recording to a video website such as Youku, iQIY, TenCent, and then paste the link of your document to SCIE Application Platform.
- For Art student
The candidates shall record a 3–minute video in English. The video content should include an introduction of yourselves, your artwork, and your creative interests. Please upload your recording to a video website such as Youku, QIY, TenCent, and then paste the link of your document to SCIE Application Platform.
Afterwards, please produce a portfolio of work showing a minimum of 7 pieces of both drawings and paintings. (You can use different media, such as pencil, pen, charcoal, acrylic or mix-media etc. Please upload an electronic portfolio to the candidate’s home page and indicate the size of the work and the material used.)
Interview
- Music
-Candidates perform a selection of contrasting music of your choice in a program up to 5 mins.
-Candidates must present an instrumental performance. The performance must be on your primary instrument.
-Candidates should plan to perform a solo with or without accompaniment (If you need an accompaniment, please provide it yourself). Candidates should select pieces that are technically and musically appropriate for your stage of musicianship.
- Art
-2-hour drawing exam: Still life or self-portrait from a mirror (pencil).
-3-hour painting: Still life or self-portrait from a mirror (acrylic or watercolour).
Fees and Costs
- Registration Fee：WeChat Pay or Ali Pay for paying the registration fee (500 RMB) online (non-refundable).
- Tuition Fees: 278,000 RMB for the academic year 2022-2023. Includes physical examination fee, campus insurance fee, extracurricular activity fees; not includes international examination fees, field trips or internships off campus, or international summer camps/programs.
- Accommodation: 16,800 RMB (excluding weekends), or 19,800 RMB (including weekends) for the academic year 2022-2023.
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2. Timeline
Jan 6, 2025
- Make an enrollment application on the school page ( please click HERE or WeChat Official Account: SCIE-2003)
Official WeChat of SCIE- Start date: Jan 6th,2025
- The government issued ID card or Passport
- Students in Mainland of China should register with your ID Card Number; Students from Hongkong China, Macau China and Taiwan China, please register with your Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong，Macao and Taiwan Residents; Foreign students should register with your passport number and upload the passport scanning copy or photo.
- Electronic photo of candidates for uploading
- Format: less than 3M; passport photo size
Jan 6 - Mar 5, 2025
Music Student ONLY
Submit your work online for prescreening between January 6th to March 5th, 2025
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Candidates are required to submit a prescreening recording consisting of a personal statement and an instrumental/vocal performance, with a total duration not exceeding 10 minutes.
Once the recording is complete, upload it to a video hosting platform (e.g., Youku, iQIYI, or WeTV). Copy the video link and paste it into the designated section on the SCIE Application Platform. |
March 7th, 2025
Music Student ONLY
The prescreening results will be released on March 7th, 2025.
Candidates who do not meet the prescreening requirements will automatically be transferred to the traditional application stream and must take the written exam on March 16th, 2025.
March 16th, 2025
- Exam Date: March 16th, 2025
- Subject: English (no mathematics test for art & music students)
March 21st, 2025 (TBD)
Release of the written test results: March 21st, 2025 (TBD)
Students who pass the written test will attend the interview next weekend.
March 30th, 2025 (TBD)
Interview Date: March 30th, 2025 (TBD)
Interview and audition with the specialist. The music/art teacher will also test candidates’ English-speaking ability and overall quality during the audition.
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March 31st & April 2nd, 2025 (TBD)
Release of the enrollment results:
- Music: March 31st, 2025 (TBD)
- Art: April 2nd, 2025(TBD)
SCIE will rank candidates based on their combined performance in the specialist assessments and written test.
3. Fees and Costs 2025-2026
Tuition Fee: 303,000 RMB for the academic year 2025-2026, covering only the physical examination fee, campus insurance, and extracurricular activity fees.
Accommodation Fee: 16,800 RMB (excluding weekends), or 19,800 RMB (including weekends) for the academic year 2025-2026.
4. Curriculum Arrangement
- All the Academy art/music students should learn the CAIE art/music course at SCIE for 4 years, and should choose an art/music-related pathway when they apply to university.
- Except for the traditional compulsory subjects, the specialist students in G Level should study one more core subject: art/music. The period of the specialist (Art/ Music) subject will be doubled for the specialist student. Art and music students will be supported by the faculty staff for all of their years during their study at SCIE.
- In G-level, specialist students must study English, Mathematics, Chinese, PE, Combined Science or Chemistry (1 out of 2), and other 2 options.
- IGCSE specialist students would learn 2-year IGCSE mathematics or the regular Maths course that most G1 students had taken.
- In principle, specialist Academy students are not allowed to transfer to the traditional stream. But if specialist students want to apply, they should send the transfer application after finishing the year of G2. The specialist students who want to transfer to traditional stream need to fulfil the following conditions:
- There is a vacancy available in related subjects.
- Pass the subject entry test.
For appropriate optional subjects’ selection, students can ask suggestions from arts academy staff and UCO.
Notice: Candidates who haven’t decided their pathway can apply as a traditional stream student and choose art/music subject as an option (traditional CAIE art/music class).
There would be only one round of entry test for the specialist students in 2025. If a student doesn’t pass the specialist test, they may apply for the second round of entry test on May 25th of 2025, through the traditional stream.
Admissions Office
Shenzhen College of International Education
