Good universities such as UniMelb, ANU, UQ, UWA will never offer twinning or joint effort programs.It degrades their quality to collaborate with money making local colleges and universities. Unless the university itself is on par with their standards. Examples of such programs are the Singapore-MIT Alliance which awards you a MIT Masters Degree in addition to a NUS degree. Each year the program is ONLY limited to around 100 bright students.

However I do see that there's lots of UK universities today which offer twinning programs or what we call joint degree awards such as those found in local colleges such as KBU, APIIT and UCSI. One big difference which sets you apart when you're awarded a degree from those programs is that in your degree scroll you're going to get something like:
This degree is collaboratively awarded by University A and University College B, Malaysia.

IMHO such degrees are crap and only degree mills produces them. Most universities which does this are probably sellouts.Surpirisingly most of them are from the UK.
Example would be TARC Advanced Diploma students who are allowed to sit for a single semester before being conferred a degree. How can they allow such things?

Have you seen any good Australian University or even a US one offering such joint award twinning degrees?

There's no compromise in this. If you want a recognized degree, get one which is directly awarded by the university itself.

With that said, good universities will never offer twinning programs or allow advanced standing into their final years with offered programs which are jointly run by local colleges.
Even with a diploma of high CGPA score, they'll only allow credit transfers into their 2nd year.

This post has been edited by cameltoe: Jul 26 2009, 08:59 PM

That's still a 2 years with the participating Australian Unis right?
I'm not from the Bio Medical field, therefore I don't know much about their arrangement.

However I'm certain for Engineering and technical courses, joint degree awards between local university colleges and Australian universities are unheard of.

I could have missed which course TS wanted to pursue, but if she intends to do medical sciences or a technical subject, my advise is look elsewhere because the Group8 in Australia will set her back to at least half a million just for studies.

If she wants to do Arts or Business, then it should be fine the extra reputation would benefit her in the long run.

Credit transfers yes but joint offered degree programs nope.

Employers will start to have doubts about you if you're going to show them a degree scroll which was jointly awarded by both a local institution and a university.
They'll know once they see 2 different logos below your scroll.
The University of Nottingham Trent, Coventry, Sheffield Hallam, U of East London have known to offer such programs.All being UK degrees.

Get yourself a REAL degree if you're serious.

I think you can still do credit transfers between participating IARU member universities for some degree programmes.

Members include:

Australian National University
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
University of California, Berkeley
Yale University
China Peking University
Singapore National University of Singapore
University of Tokyo
University of Copenhagen
ETH Zurich