i heard the chances of getting into the uni there is higher if i were do to year 13. Anyways do you know somebody who i can contact? like how to get into year13 and stuff.

Tell me which city u interested to enter high school in NZ and I will refer you their international page and contact person in details.

hi i still have more than half a till i grad but i was looking for options.. i am taking health informatics in MMU and i was wondering if i am able to further my studies in NZ in some healthcare course other than nursing/physiotherapy.. i am not a very good student cause i dun like to study, i am more hands-on. my cgpa currently is 3.22.
is there any scholarships available also?

If you really want to study in NZ, you can try to email their international student support to inquiry more.
University of Otago!
University of Auckland!

Bear in mind that studying health science/medicine in NZ is around NZD 50K per year which is around RM120K for international students.

Scholarship wise, I see a lot of JPA and Petronas scholarship people studying here, you might want to check those up

Auckland? anyways what if i have my relatives there and i stay with my uncle. would the payment be the same or would it be considered as local? like his my guardian and stuff.

To natbass,

If u want to enter NZ for medicine, i suggest u to go through IMU.

NZ international fees for medicine is currently 60k per annum and it will increase for about 2k every year (about rm 150k per year).

And bear in mind that for the first year in NZ you have to take up either health science / biomedical science as the common year, you have to score at least A- in everything and score your UMAT and then excel in the interview before you can enter medicine, which u will be called "2nd year" but it's actually ur first year in medicine. There's a total of 6 years. The competition is er, quite tough, they'll select 160 students (i think) from 2000 applicants, lol. And if u dont get in, your screwed.

And btw, you have to pay international fees unless u have a NZ PR.

And till now i see no private international msians doing medicine, mostly are MARA or JPA sponsored, in which there's a pre-arrangement between NZ and MSIA government where the scholars place are reserved as long as they get B or above in their first year, and they bypass interview and UMAT.

You still end up paying international fee payee student. Best method is to take cygoh9 advise, go thru IMU.
Australia and NZ medicine degree are VERY expensive for international students, best to go thru tuning programs

hi,im a stpm leaver and considering of study in nz.but i searched my course(bachelor in environmental science) and i found that this course is not recognized by malaysian government if i were to study in nz. is tat true?btw..is it easy to get a job after graduate? thx for answering

This post has been edited by sodagreen930: Mar 16 2010, 02:35 AM

Firstly, how did you come to that conclusion? Secondly, where do you intent to study in New Zealand. And what did you get for STPM?

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Added on March 16, 2010, 12:48 pmi went to JPA's website to check the list coz i want to apply jpa loan if i want to study overseas..but i cant find the uni in the list..im planning to go university of canterbury..only 2.9..

This post has been edited by sodagreen930: Mar 16 2010, 12:48 PM

It is extremely easy to get into uni in NZ, so I wouldn't worry about that.

What is hard is getting to the course you want. As someone else mentioned, to get into medicine, you need to do 1st year health science. That's an open entry course, you just need to have passed whatever pre-u you're doing or Year 13. It might be 160 accepted into med out of 2000, but bear in mind that international student places (non-JPA, MARA, Brunei, Saudi govt scholarship) may be as low as 3-5.

In Otago, that means more than an A- since there's no interview. Think about getting an A to A+ average on your 1st year health science subjects, plus a high UMAT score.

In Auckland, it's a B+ average to get called for an interview (if memory serves), UMAT and interview performance. Even more tricky if you ask me.

Personally, I don't think it's worth the risk. Unless you parents can afford to risk the 1st year international student fees in the even you don't get in. Or if you're happy do do dentistry, pharmacy, physiotherapy, medical laboratory science or a BSc instead (for Otago, not sure what happens to med rejects in Auckland).
Btw if you fail to get in through the health science route, they won't accept you if you re-apply through IMU.

If you do manage to get into medicine and graduate from an NZ uni, you'll stand a good chance of being employed in NZ (or Australia, should you so wish).

I think JPA offers only engineering courses in University of Canterbury

owh..too bad...no other loan like JPA?

I'm not sure, sorry

oh...nvm...1 more question..*sorry*...im an art stream student..is tat possible for me to take bachelor of science?i asked the aussie uni n they said possible but hard for me...but i dunno about nz uni..

hands-on? if you don't like the academical approach, you can try Unitec New Zealand, they are an Institute of Technology that offers qualifications from certificate all the way through masters. so far i'm liking it here.

How about asking the NZ unis then?

hey guys, im wondering which pre-u would be the most suitable for studying in NZ, is it A-levels? also, how is life in NZ? is it fun?

Anyone in Massey University?

south australian matriculation is best.

Re-Guards,
Ah Meng