actually, it's more of AUSTRALIA BOLEH thingy. true story .

u see, LAM validation cannot extend beyond our borders (due to parliamentary and sovereignty limitations blablabla). so in order to validate an overseas school, THEY must invite us to validate them. schools that depends on malaysian students will immediately jump on to this opportunity. there are over 100 malaysian students studying architecture in a single school! so if each student spend AUD100k, that's easily AUD10mil loss without LAM validation.

now some of the more prestigious schools... they never bothered. it's like "what? validation from what country now?"

so that was a couple of years ago. that's why some of these schools have not made it in the list. not because LAM dont want to or dont validate them. it's because they're not interested.

Nowadays, part 2 should start at around 2.5k, in big cities like KL should be around 2.8k. Mainly because of the pandemic.

Before the pandemic, I can safely say around RM3k. But when pandemic hits, projects got halted, a lot of people been retrenched, yet schools still producing graduates. So there's more supply than demand right now.

As a part 2, on average my peers and I started with 3.6-4k as fresh grad in kl. Pandemic has caused some salary cuts but it's back to normal now. With 3 years experience, most of us are earning 5-6k but I know there are many who earns around 4 - 5k even with 5 years experience.

Part 1 fresh grad around 2.5k, good ones can go up to 2.8-3k in some offices.