UTP is the university offering the best chemical engineering course in Malaysia, in UTP, you will expose well to the oil and gas field, which is the main highest salary career u want to be employed for all the chemical engineering graduate. UTP has the best facility and good chemical engineering lectures for you. Plus, UTP offers 8 months internship whereas IPTA only 2 months, oil and gas MNC quite favourable to UTP chemical engineering graduates. UTP is such a good university that it has a very good relationship to the petrochemical MNC , at so, their syllabus is aimed to produce a really “ENGINEER” student. (It is also due to UTP is founded by Petronas, the Malaysia petroleum giant)

But, nevertheless, UTP is situated at the not tat so developed area in Perak, so don’t expect too much entertainment at there. And I don’t think so you can experienced what we call the “University Life” in UTP when you compared UTP to the major IPTA such as UM,UKM,USM …etc. University life in IPTA is fulled with freedom and challenge, you must balance up you time and efforts in studying and organizing activities. In IPTA, the most important slogan we have is “PLAY HARD, STUDY SMART”, as university life is your last schooling life already. So we must cherish this opportunity to build up a good memory for our university memory. I am not saying that studying in UTP, you won’t get such experience. However, when you compared to IPTA, studying in UTP is relatively boring…

In conclusion,
IPTA ( UM, UKM… )
Pro : Learning Independent, Freedom, enjoy university life…

UTP
Pro : Best facility, good chemical engineering lecturer, 8 months internship=good career for you, oil and gas favorable university
Con : Boring lifestyle

It’s just my 2 cents. I am not a UTP student, but a UMS (Sabah University) chemical engineering undergraduate. Just want to share my opinions about this topics to you. Hope u will like it.

This post has been edited by poilam: May 9 2009, 04:19 PM