I was fliiping through the Guardian yesterday morning and found out about this article. Actually, I am not a fan of this ranking stuff! But I was so curious I had browsed through the website and came out tho some interesting conclusions. (well, 30 years ago I went through the Baron's yearly top universities listing because I wanted to enter a well established university)
Nothing suprises me the top 10 ranking unversities in the world, All are highly reputable universities and its everyone's dream to have studied there!
What bothers me most is 2 things :
1. Malays, especially, are TOO dependent on the government assistance to get their kids to further their educations! Many were overseas graduates but still willing to send their sons or daughters to the local universities despites its limitations. The best ranked university is Universiti Malaya ranked 156. That too you could hardly see many Malays in the critical schools : Accountancy, Medicine or Engineering.I could not understand why!
Most non Malays who are more choosy!. My neighbour (Chinese) send his son to the States to further his education. A business colleague(Indian) sourced whatever money he could get to send his daughter to India to do medicine. Another colleague who could hardly speak any other language but Mandarin or Hokkien sent his daughter to Sunway University (Accountancy)despite being chosed to enter Universiti Utara Malaysia (Business Management)! He had to fork out RM5000 and the rest PTPTN.
Same goes with my other Indian friend whose son got 9As (SPM) but not able to enter medic school here. Sourced RM40,000 to send him to Russia to do the course he wanted most!
But Malays had this "tak pa" atitude! He still goes to the university!!!!UiTM pun UiTM la! (UiTM had such a lousy reputation that private sectors are NOT willing to touch their graduates!) Btw, I can't find Uitm in the QS rankings!
Don't blame them! Had I been given the chance to choose, I would definitely had taken the foreign grad as my employee!! Why are they not willing to spend on their kids but willing to spend so MUCH money on Hariraya Open Houses????
2. This is most interesting from the QS rankings. The "Employer's Repuation" towards the university!. Despite being ranked 156 Universiti Malaya had a low 54.4 points(out of 100) in its ER. Many universities which ranked lower than UM had a higher ER ranking! (moreover, UM no longer command the aura of being THE university in Malaysia)
There so many overseas graduates in Malaysia that it makes local graduates non-marketable. All you could hope is these graduates either end up in the government agencies or become lecturers or even politicians. Whats worse for a small country with only 30 million local population, Malaysia has among the highest number of higher learning tertiary education centres. We have universities, university colleges, colleges, polytechnics, foreign university campuses, teacher colleges, nursing colleges, etc....... Just image where do these graduates will end up in the next 5 years! Don't talk about those who comes back from overseas!!!
So for the mak's and bapa's out there think hard before sending your kids to futher their studies!!!
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