Because Malaysia signed the Washington Accord which recognized engineering degree even from our local and private university. Let say you go to US with your local engineering degree, you can be 100% sure that your engineering degree will be recognized by them. To make sure all of this, BEM and MQA frequently do "Quality Check" on the universities offering engineering degree to make sure they are up to standards

If the degree is not up to standards, then that degree is no recognized by BEM and MQA. BEM set the rules that that an engineering degree MUST BE AT LEAST 4 YEAR DURATION and any lower is automatically not recognized.

For certain case example, you can take the 3 years course and then do your post grad for another year for a total of 4 years. However, BEM will only consider it as a degree qualification and not post grad or Master qualification. This is because, you only just fulfill the 4 years requirements even though you have taken your master.

Most of this case happen when parents/students want a quickest and fastest way to get a degree cert out. But fail in finding out information if the degree is valid or not.  So when a deal is too good to be true, there sure something fishy going behind 

Too many parents are anxious about their children's future but they are not pretty "educated" in the field of higher education institutions.

I came across few friends who did their 1st degree at private U, but unfortunately, I came from a poor family and did mine at public university far north of M'sia.

To compare with their English proficiency, I believe I am still far away from their Band 6 standard. But, to compare on "employability", I am not far less from them. In fact, the background that I have earned from my dissertation's supervisors who have given me extra length to pursue my doctorate today. 

If you wanted to enroll your son/daughter in private U, please check their library rather the swimming pool or tennis court, their lecturers' academic qualification rather the university's ranking, number of intakes in a year, engineering labs and if the engineering programmes are accreditated by the board of engineer M'sia.

Before I joined the world of academia, I thought it is easy to become lecturer. It was infact, true with roadside colleges/ universities where I was required to teach 5-8 subjects, coordinating students' activities and marking of exam papers and scripts all year round because my school has 5 intakes in a year. They are just using the academic staff to print out the money. It is true from the business perspectives.

But, now with this current institution, apart from the printed job responsibilities, the lecturers were rewards for producing papers/ adding knowledge into our own field of study, students that we have supervised have the research skills which they can use for future academic advancements, 2 intakes in a year where rests of the time, we sit down and discuss the learning outcomes of a module/ programme, having games/ activities with our students (organised by students as part of their learning experience), establishing code of professionalism etc. 

Choose the one which is best for their future.

Go BEM website and see.. They have a list

pls dont be spoonfed

Pretty difficult to evaluate who is better. Still, I am a local graduate but I have no problem with employability, learning new skills/ knowledge and development opportunities. But, I can see graduates from those colleges/universities offering degree in engineering which is not recognised by the board of engineer are suffering from unemployment issue. If given me another opportunity, I will choose IPTA. Fees that I have paid is commensurate with the quality teaching and not far less employabilitiness than IPTS graduates unless you are comparing with top notch universities in Malaysia.   

If you are referring to communication skill in Bahasa Malaysia, bear in mind that there is less books in Bahasa Malaysia than English. Do you think that we can continue in bahasa m'sia when we moving upward (level 1 to level 3 or postgrad)? If you are investigative in nature, you will pick up and learn something which is new to you, unless you are lazy.

Not always neighbor's grass is greener.