Consider it as good school for accounting. But I heard my bro (ex-TARC student) said that TARC accounting is better

i think u better choose this out of three...
UNITEN, MMU or UTP.

Those 3 are good private @ semi-government university.
research facilities are better than any private uni in Malaysia.
research grant as well.

UNITEN = TNB
MMU = TM
UTP = PETRONAS

I'm a proud graduate of Software Engineering in APU. APU has a good track record in its Computing and IT courses. Their syllabus, so far, is the most complete ones after I have seen other universities. If you are looking for the quality instead of the environment, APU will be the right place.

Ya, I willing to know about his department as well.

This post has been edited by jiunnhao30: Aug 11 2014, 01:19 PM

I doubt that you are from Monash~ Haha

Well, I agree with you that APU has a SOLID record for all their computing and IT courses. They also produce extremely versatile and competent graduates from my experience.

However, your marketing talk should end there. While I have no doubts that their syllabus is sound, to state that they are the most complete based on your experience is just a lot of crap. Who are you to judge other Universities structure? And how many universities have you seen?

Sigh. I kinda dislike these embedded marketing moles.

Hi,

Glad to know that you are interested in Software Engineering.

The Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) is amongst Malaysia’s Premier Private Universities, and is where a unique fusion of technology, innovation and creativity works effectively towards preparing professional graduates for significant roles in business and society globally. APU has earned an enviable reputation as an award-winning University through its achievements in winning a host of prestigious awards at national and international levels.

APU was announced as among the Highest Rated Universities in Malaysia, being rated at TIER 5 (EXCELLENT) under the SETARA 2011 Ratings by the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) and Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) which was announced by the Minister of Higher Education, Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin on 1st November 2012.

Our Software Engineering course is a Dual Award Programme. Upon your graduation, you will receive two certificates: 1 from us, APU, and another from Staffordshire University, our partner in UK.

For more details about our Software Engineering course, please visit: http://www.apu.edu.my/our-courses/undergra...are-engineering

If you have any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Hi
I have applied for Msc in IT management at APU for jan 2015 intake.
Is there any one studying the same?
I have already applied for my visa as well.
Can any one tell me how the uni is and any info related to the course.

guys any reply?

guys pls think twice b4 joining there. Im not complaining all but some. Mainly some of the lecturers are like robots, and they are teaching mathematics. Imagine how a class will be running if it is running by robot. Tht lecturer having his own policy, his own hardest method, and don't understand whether the student understand what is teaching or no. How a class will be running like that. But im sure tht lecturer knows some of the class students are weak in tht class but then he still creates hard assignment and exams. Finally 1/3 of tht class got failed their module. And some even having prblems with their results, some of their marks of assignment or exam are not even on the system but the grade still given to the student without assignment or exam. But the head will be saying that all the lecturers will be monitored in the classes, but they just checking what and how lecturers teaching but do they know how the student in the class understanding. Lots of students are suffering in here because of this. and cost of resitting exam and retaking module . And the best part of this is, if you fail one module then you will not able to get your certificate or enter your next course degree/diploma/..... until clear your fail



But not all the modules and lecturers are like this. Other than this everything is fine and good. But we still are waiting for the new campus building, since officials updates the new campus will be ready to go end of 2015. probs.

As I heard...some students got their cert even though they are having alot of resits...
I wonder how they got cert without passing module...
I'm an apu student...no more dual cert for apu...
Be careful when choosing APU...
They increased price...
They will make you fail...

I'm regretting joining APU

But APU website still stated that have dual cert....

Anyway, thanks for the advice

I'm thinking of applying to APU for March intake for software engineering course, but what Im hearing here, APU isn't actually that good of an option. Is it really that bad? If so, what other uni are well known for their IT department?

Wow you are reviving in a very old thread, I suggest you open your own topic.

I am a software engineering graduate from APU at December 2013. What I can say that is, definitely cannot expect spoon feed in APU. You MUST find your own information related to the module yourself because lecturers in APU don't teach much. They give you assignment at week 2 of the semester, expect hand in at week 16, and just tell you a couple of points for exams. You must ask the lecturer to know what they want, or else you will never know and you will end up getting low grades. Final Year Projects are even more independent, you must determine your own topic, your own schedule and do documentations yourself without much materials guiding you.

It was relatively easy for me, in fact I had a distinction diploma and first class degree from the same uni. But IMHO if you are expecting a lot of guidance don't go to APU. I'm the type of person who don't like classes and like to self learn.

Other private uni that are well known for IT would be MMU, Monash and Curtin. Public uni would be UM or UTM.

Go with kumiko_91's suggestion. I'm still in APU, and for around 2 years now, APU cretainly has benefits and flaws on its both sides. I will not say "APU isn't a good option" based on my experience, and I will definitely NOT say that APU is the best concerning I've never been in any other universities before and it'll be shame if I make blind comparisons that're merely based on my "beliefs".

Plenty of Microsoft top software suites for free are available since APU has license under Microsoft Dreamspark including the top-tier IDE (Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise Edition) for your C, C++, VB.Net, C#... I've met a few lecturers who really couldn't teach, but some are good lecturers as long as you pay attention on their lectures and do distributed works during lab/tutorial sessions. Keyword is "pay attention", develop a habit to take notes, otherwise when you can't catch up the course you may, end up blaming APU for your possible mistakes. And yes, full dependencies on lecturers and expect them to deliver everything are not the way to succeed, even my Java lecturer advised us that.

what makes you chose APU?

I choose APU because I like APU's environment that I can fully concentrate. I didn't like the idea of a very big campus and uni with a lot of co-curricular activities.

Recommendation from a few friends who work at IT sectors. Tbh, I once cut down my list that left only APU and MMU to choose before advancing my studies, but APU saves me a lot fuel

And yes it means, if MMU is the nearest to where I live, I would be choosing MMU.

Oh well I shall be visiting MMU tomorrow.

I went to APU today, okay la. But im more interested with the new campus, I was told all APU courses will be diverted there on June 2016.

What APU has said about the new campus launch date has very high chances to be true this time. Since I've witnessed the progress of new campus construction with my own eyes.