LOL, lately, the requirement being rised quite a lot already. Averagely you need 3.8 even for the last time lowest CGPA's Civil Engineering.
sos (sorry it is in Chinese)
http://www.quansheng.org/p/blog-page_11.html

Worse that some U had cut down the quota to make way for foreign student, so the competition aren't as easy as you thought would be.

This post has been edited by Human10: May 3 2014, 01:32 AM

1. I will suggest you the other way round. Since for Civil Engineering, you deal with calculations, so you better have good foundation in Maths and Physics. Architecture on the other hand is about art. Your STPM's qualification (I assume you are of science stream) will have a higher chance to get a slot when you just done your STPM than after 5 years studying architecture (architecture degree is 3+2 years IINM).

An engineering degree course will took 4 years. After your graduation with your engineering degree, you can still consider to apply for degree in architecture. Though I guess the basic interview process will still apply, and it still largely depend on your luck to see if they accept you. But I highly doubt you will still be interested or passionate to get a Degree in Architecture provided your Civil Engineering lecturers probably often brainwashing you that Architect is evil, wasting, illogical and bla bla.

2. As above, it shall go back to your STPM. Your degree in old field won't interfere with the newer field. You have to start all over from scratch.

3. AFAIK, nope. Also, not much IPTA actually offering Architecture and Engineering together. Even so they also gonna be 2 separate faculties which don't interact or interfere.

And yup, Civil Engineering in IPTA have becoming more and more high requirement.

And majority of them are at the upper boundary (what I mean is the 3.5x candidate just 1 or 2 person, while most of the rest are the top score)...

Also, take a look at UPM, LEL... Only 5 candicates and minimum also 3.84...
http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/202428953...iew_mode=scroll

This post has been edited by Human10: May 3 2014, 01:46 AM

Actually UM do shocked me.

More than half of their candidates are non-bumi.
24/39

This post has been edited by Human10: May 3 2014, 02:01 AM