I have a feeling the parents in HK and EK don't understand the knowledge and real potential in engineering disciplines.
They only look at the engineering programs superficially, like the admission scores and career aspects. Like you and I are from engineering background, and we are running a successful business because of good engineering training, more important than BBA.
Mid Nov, I will be one of the visiting member of the HKIE Program Accreditation Team to review all HKU Engineering Programs, our last visit was 5 years ago, I am looking forward to see their progress in the programs.