officially, it's based on a points based algorithm with your ranking of the uni weightage 5 times that of the uni's ranking of you (which is generally based on merit).........

in reality, to 'even out' the allocations to avoid good students crowding in popular/top unis and poor students going to unpopular ones, there is 'engineering' of the matching, so there is a more even spread...........which means some 'lucky' student with lower results can be assigned to top unis, over better students, even if both rank that uni the same.........ie, not based purely on the points only......

I actually set up my application account last year and unfortunately, the courses available to me are all in 2011. Do I need to delete my account and re-register?

I don't quite get the ranking part. The ranking of respective universities is conducted by us fellow applicants? Then we will be allocated the highest ranked one amongst all?

Does this apply to all courses or just medic, dentistry and pharmacy?

students rank all the pds, based on their preference........usually the top 20% students gets their 1st choice.........others get something lower down, even 5th or 6th......for medicine even 10th or 12th choice......

Some of the students with lesser results may be placed together with some of the top students thus bypassing some of the better ones.

Though I dont agree, I think they also have a point to avoid categorising of these students.

To be honest after all these years (not to say i'm very senior) i realise it's not about the best medical school u go to (for IMU), it's about the COUNTRY of ur med school that matters in the end.

A borderline IMU student from the PMS may eventually be a surgeon, or pass his/her physician exams anyway (or radiologists or etc etc). U just needa talk ur way thru, know at least 50% of the stuffs (which are common, anything uncommon then REFER TO THAT SPECIALTY FOR REVIEW).

Ppl ended up in Canada/US will eventually get their residency and become consultant - and possibly practice there. UK used to be a good place but i'm not sure about now. Aus and NZ is also closing gate in 2 years time and i foresee the only one thats worth going to are Canada and the US.

canada does not allow imu students to do their internship there......you will need to go to the us.......

if your intention is to eventually go to us for work and training, then you can do so from anywhere in the world......you just need to have the usmle step 1 and 2..........

yea what i meant was residency in the US. The US prioritizes their own graduates first before the IMGs. And also it's hard for ppl to travel so far for interview ie from msia, india etc (of course it's possible). AND THEN u have to uproot ur family/ gf/ bf that was previously with u it's a whole lot of complication. If u start the uprooting process during med school then probably such complications are lesser.

The IMU rep acknowledge that the number of overseas pms will be reducing going forward and commented that there is an urgent need to look for new partners and/or new countries. Will such new pms be better, at least comparable but hopefully not worse. Commercialisation may be the ugly word!

Guys, really sorry to re-quote this but it's kinda urgent.

Thanks in advance

if you need a proper answer, give the admission office a call

I dont think there'll be anymore better med schools that IMU can twin to unless it's to a new country. Or perhaps a few more US schools lol like Thomas Jefferson (for the fact that it is in US). They walloped almost all Aussie public med schools, and there's only few new UK med schools left for them to grab. I cant think of any other OECD countries that IMU did not twin to.

how much is the cost to study nutrition and dietetic degree course in imu?

my aunt ask me2 study herbs bcs it has a better prospect in future,is it better to study nutrition or herds?

who is going for dentistry february intake?

anyone knows the intake of every courses in IMU ?

usually february and july...

every courses ? include dentistry ?

dentistry is in february only i think.

i think there is a serious problem with imu if they never show this on their website. otherwise, the problem lies in you.

i checked out with IMU that day cost for nutrition and dietetics degree is 147k.. plus the registration fee bla bla approx 150k i think