Go to Manchester School of Architecture...even Ar. Amer Hamzah (LAM president) send his kid to this school. And according to him, you will get a degree from both Uni of Manchester AND Manchester Met Uni. Can boast about it in your resume.
Why worry about 'validation' too much. Things will be sorted out later.
When you graduate and decided to go back to Malaysia to practice, and then decided you want to proceed with registration then only you need to care.
Let's go for a round for prominent figures in the local architecture scene.
1. Kamil Merican - not listed in the LAM register (unless he is using other names), yet he his somewhat being known as an architect managing one of the largest office in Malaysia.
2. Ar. Lillian Tay - graduated from Princeton (US). Princeton is not accredited back then, she went through the process and got registered, now she is a principal of Veritas.
3. Kevin Low - graduated from University of Oregon (US) not listed in LAM register (unless he is using other names), yet also being known as an architect. Heck, the University of Queensland even appointed him as an adjunct professor.
the list goes on...so whether your school is 'LAM validated' is pretty much irrelevant when it comes to practice.

What you should really care about is whether or not the profession remains relevant in the future. Here I quote:
"Architecture today is little more than cardboard," says Koolhaas, ... "Our influence has been reduced to a territory that is just 2cm thick."

Perhaps I go too far, after all this is the education board. Just enjoy your youth while you can, because practice is way more cruel than LAM abolishing the automatic recognition of your degree.

This post has been edited by 2387581: Jul 17 2017, 05:58 PM

Allow me to chip in, if you want to make architecture your career, or have further progression as an architect, remember that the 'fun' designing part is only 10% of what architects do. The rest of the time we deal with
- laws and regulations
- coordination with other consultants
- dealing with difficult clients and/or their unknowledgeable project managers
- costs, suppliers, products
- producing boring but necessary drawings for construction
- BQ, contracts (especially when the QS amend the standard contracts to set up so many traps, you have to read through all of them)
- payments (or sometimes nonpayments)
- lobby for projects and running a business + managing a practice (if you are owner/partner/director)