You look down UTeM ka?

I was a student of Matrix and I am a student of UTAR now. I can give you the experience you might face.

For UTAR, you will face Chinese. It's Mandarin or English. No one gives a damn to BM. You enjoy freedom, not much restrictions on cultures, events and things you feel like doing. Perak campus is like a peaceful town, not much of entertainment unless you want to seek something high at ipoh (30 minutes drive) or KL (2 hours). Things are not expensive and you have Tesco to get cheap raw food. If you don't drive, you can cyle and it is 5 minutes from East lake (quieter part) or 10 minutes from Westlake (very crowded but expensive). Accomodation is quite direct for other campuses.

The downside, of course: You need 80% attendance. Some lecturers are funny assholes. You can ask your friends to sign for you if the lecturers/tutors don't care. It's hard to score A as there are new policies ruling the quota of A's.
For local U's, in general, you get lower tuition fees. You get a lot of resources in funding.

The downside, of course:
1. racism. it is hard to avoid it. I went to Matrix and the first thing I heard from the president is "Dear non-Malay, you should be grateful because we Malay sacrifice 10% of our quota for you all...". Nevermind, but I bumped into some Malay assholes who told me the same thing, and told me that I should thank Allah. Perhaps it is about personal experience but I strong dter such strong racial sentiments, and despise those assholes who are the products of MARA brainwashing >> HOPELESS!

2. lecturer and tutor quality. You know well how well our secondary teachers are. Highly qualified teachers are rejected from the education sector by the ministry of education yet they claim we don't have enough good teaching force. you read the news and you know how well the umno administration is playing about.

3. freedom restricted. in matrix, you have stupid schedules. in local u, you can culture restricted. you have to respect their prayers, respect whatever clothings they wish you to dress, and respect their cultures by adhering to their ways and norms. in utar, you can just ignore them and live your way. but you've got to live with it if you go local U. it's not a big deal actually. it depends on the campus. but you certainly won't like someone calling you haram for eating pork or holding hands with your girlfriend (while they can do it and even have sex at their dorms).
i know the way i convey it is racist and biased. I assume that you are a Chinese and I give my opinion regarding my personal experience. I'm alright with Malay but I'm fed up of toleration when I don't see people respecting my cultures (and that's what I call dignity). If you are a Malay, well you are certainly free from your religous obligations if you are not religious or you don't even care a damn of it.
Good luck.

u shouldn't compare matrix with ipta.

I do look down on UTeM and I was a student from there.
+1...This is the truth in IPTA. If u don't mind to suffer+study hard in the next 4 yrs, sure why not choose a cheaper and yet a pretty decent uni. But in IPTS, it is relaxing+study hard. U make the choice. IPTS doesn't have those restrictions and annoying rules.

Talking from my experience from both IPTA and IPTS. And I changed from IPTA to IPTS. Happily ever after i would say
Everything that he said totally reflects the life in IPTA. It is quite similar i would say. Well...since the majority of IPTA students are u-knw-who which is also similar to Matrix.

I do look down on UTeM and I was a student from there.

Since studying in matrix and IPTA so suffer why there are still many Chinese want to suffer at there?

no wonder you come to mmu melaka. 

Matrix=easiest entrance to IPTA

IPTA=cheap fees

If many Chinese are rich, mostly prefer overseas. 

Yup those r the reasons. Not all can afford IPTS and not all can take risks. Matrix is the easiest to get into IPTA which has cheap fees and risks to get rejected from IPTA is lower for Matrix students. And I heard Matrix is easier to score than STPM.

I would remain in IPTA bcoz I'm kinda poor. But I got scholarship to study in IPTS...Happy!!

I still stuck in IPTA......but be grateful for what I own now....

'stuck' sounds sad haha. Anyway, yeah we r all grateful with all that we have.

Im also stuck la david. LMAO

well. is helpful. haha.
1. i don't really like either electrical nor electronic... actually i prefer mechanical or physics...
2. UTeM electrical engineering wasn't in my 8 choices... i choose UPM UMS mechanical aerospace n physics... unfortunately, they don't even wanna give me a pure/applied science.
3. i can study major on them during master degree.
4. probably if can i wouldn't use. is there any loan beside PTPTN? lol..
5/6/7. ya. but i'm emphasize more on university quality and study environment. If both UTAR and UTeM students are looking for same employer, and both have good ability/personality, which 1 will be employ?
8. This i don't know haha.
9. both are accredited. i had checked both course modules and subjects 1 by 1. thats why i know there's no renewable energy/optoelectronic/microelectronic in UTeM.
10. i don't deny this. but as i said, university quality come first.
11. Frankly tell you, i also hope to study in multi-cultural U, so i can strengthen my communication skill and so on.
12. what safe-zone u mean?
13. Well, i'm looking for better, doesn't mean negative mindset.

Actually i'm looking for physics at the first. Unfortunately, i choose E&E which have related some subjects that i like. This is because i feel that engineering have better job opportunity then physics, through my 'research'. If i'm rich, i will go for physics, but my family need my support in the future. I don't know i'm right or wrong. please correct me? i'm willing to..

UTeM laaa cheaper maa

My friends told me to appreciate the chance of getting local U, but i prefer to study at UTAR.