Because nobody bothers to pay for it. It seems that most of the students enrolled there are scholars from JPA and MARA. 23% of them get into Oxbridge.

More than half of the teachers (lecturers?) there are expats, and kyuem is the third best A level college in south east asia. Kyuem is a premier college, hence, it's premier price.

From its advertisement, I think 5 got Cambridge this year, one in med, one eng, two law and another.

To get to know whats really in it, one must go to edu fair and grabbed two of its prospectuses, one consists of general description abt the colege, another about their long list of students that enter OXbridge + other unis, there is one girl who get into stanford oso if im not mistaken. a huge portion of tis students made it to prestigous unis in UK tho not all got into OXbridge...namely IMperial, UCL, KCL, Warwick, Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester bath and etc etc... so it is really impressive.

What i think that can justifies the 80k needed to be forked out by its students are its almost-to-none list of lecturers
which is mostly "imported" from overc and its boarding services... However, if i were to compare KYUEM and KTJ, KTJ stand in much better, lol although im not a student of any of the both, if anoyone ask me abt choices, my preferential goes to the latter. 80k for boarding skol A levels is consider cheap already, try googling Concorde College and you will be shock to know its rate of Oxbirdge and MIT/ HArvard admit and also its beatiful price.

Hey guys I'm from KYUEM and I'm gonna sit for my A2 exam this June.

The fees are not 80k but 67k for the 2-year program. This is inclusive of meals, laundry, and accommodation. We have tennis, squash, basketball and volleyball courts available for free. So is the olympic-size swimming pool and the gym (theres male and female gym)

40% of the teachers here are expats and the rest are local teachers. The results of the students here are pretty impressive. For my year, the AS results, 83.8% got A's and B's plus majority of those who took Further Mathematics got an A* in maths. Every year theres a couple of students admitted to Oxbridge and a number of others who gained top in Malaysia and top in the world. Last year someone got admitted to Stanford and this year one of my batch mates received an offer from Yale and John Hopkins.

Sorry to dissapoint you feynman but all of us applied for our universities through ucas and I'm very positive none of us used 'cables' around here. All of us worked hard to gain admittance to top UK universities. The healthy mixture of sponsored and private students (50%-50% for my batch) together with the conducive environment (note: middle of nowhere) definitely helps us. Tons of scholarship bodies sends their scholars here not just MARA and JPA but also Khazanah, BNM, UEM, PNB, YTM, YTN, and etc.

Personally I think KTJ have better facilities than KYUEM but get ready to fork out 100k to go there.

Very true... doesn't seem that all bad... but I'm sure many would prefer to go to Taylor's because they want a more rich people's environment.    Taylor's students are mainly private ones and not sponsored fully by scholarship bodies.. to the eyes to normal SPM leavers like me, KYUEM seems like some ulu Malay styled college from the outside unless we enter their campus or see their prospectus and stuff..

there are JPA, Petronas, TNB, Shell, etc., scholars studying at Taylors for entrance to top US universities for undergraduate studies. it's a one year program.

I am sorry to bring up this dead thread Richard Feynman but you clearly contradict yourself in the post above, or I may have been misled. You do know that in the US you have Tier one and Tier two leagued schools right? Cornell is in Tier two, along with UPenn and Uchicago, Brown. Caltech is in Tier one, along with the likes of MIT, Stanford etc. To say that Cornell is not on par with UChicago is a joke. Uchicago, if u want, may be slightly more academical than Cornell, but aside from its social science scene, it cannot be compared to MIT Stanford etc.

Now, regarding selectivity, I hope you also realize that Uchicago is one of the 'less selective' ivy standard universities right? It's admission rate is around 16-18%, whereas schools like Berkeley has a 21% admission rate, I wouldn't call that 'a lot higher' would you? Also, I think it's futile to judge a university based on its selectivity. There is such a thing as 'self selective' you know.

I just find it very hypocritical for one who does not seem to know his stuff well to group universities together and label them, 'not as good' or 'good'. I mean come on, Oxbridge, if you look at its statistics have a high acceptance rate than schools like LSE, who boast to have admission rate of <10%. Does that mean that it's harder to get into LSE than Oxbridge? Not at all. I would also go as far to say that Berkeley's science and engineering program triumphs that of UChicago, so it just goes on to show that admission rate does not define how good a university is.

I am sorry if I may have misread your intentions, just thought I needed to point out that Cornell is, give or take, on par with Uchicago.