Yes - there is an option to study a minimum a year in UOW Australia. You can also go for 2 years there as well - this is for the CS/SE degree programmes.

You can PM me for more info.

PS: I am not a marketing staff. I am an Academic. My job is just to give your facts and data.

Haha. Needed to say this, cause i've noticed some people who call out marketing people here.

How about Electrical Engineering degree, is there an option to go to Australia with 2+1. If entering as a Diploma this year (Sept intake) and complete the Diploma (in 2.5 years) then proceed with Degree in Electrical Engineering, will the Degree conferred by UOW Malaysia + UOW Australia?

While I am not in the School of Engineering, I will try to answer this best I can. There are multiple options you can consider:
1. UOW Malaysia EE Diploma can articulate to UOW Australia Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) - Electrical Engineering programme directly.
2. While you can continue your degree in UOW Malaysia for a year after diploma and then complete the rest in UOW Australia, i would just recommend the option of doing your Foundation in Engineering (FEng) and go to Degree for a year and articulate over to UOW Australia. In fact, our foundation is accepted as direct entry into UOW Australia as well. You get two offer letters as you come into our Foundation in Engineering (Or any foundation in UOW) programme - One letter to continue in UOW Malaysia and another to continue in UOW AUD.

Btw - the 1yr FEng - 1yr UOWM and 3yr UOW AUD should be safest as they are professional courses. This also means that you get the UOW AUD parchment.

If you do the entire BoE-EE Programme in Malaysia - you get a UOW Malaysia KDU parchment that is signed by UOW Australia Vice-Chancellor but it is still our UOW Malaysian Cert.

Does it make sense? Hope i answered your question

Hi, may I ask would this apply for their MBA offered in UC or BK as well? As there is no mention on the website whatsoever. If the UOW AUD parchment is awarded as well, then this would be the best value MBA in Malaysia IMHO. But I doubt that is the case haha. No harm asking tho.

Yeah - Our MBA is 100% UOW Malaysia KDU. The final Parchment will be signed by UOW Australia though.

Anyway - we are actually not just a Foreign Branch Campus. We are OWNED by University of Wollongong, Australia. Just in case you are wondering.

Appreciate your response. Assuming it is fully owned by UOW itself, I find the approach mind boggling from the perspective of a prospective student as I am drawing parallels to the other major Australian university here in Malaysia, where the parchment is the same as what you would get in Australia.

Lexus is fully owned by Toyota, their need of differentiation was to establish Lexus as the more premium brand.

I wonder what is the need to differentiate UOW Malaysia KDU and UOW Australia. The impression it gives me, and prospective employers IMHO is UOW Australia is the premium brand thus leading one (me) to draw the conclusion that UOW Malaysia KDU is somewhat inferior in comparison.

And more importantly, the other Australian university's degree would be accredited by both MQA and its equivalent, TEQSA in Australia, since it is the same parchment and course. Whereas in the case of UOW Malaysia KDU, that would not be the case as TEQSA only authorised UOW to self accredit its courses and not UOW Malaysia KDU.

And as a disclaimer as not to mislead anyone reading my post, the above is merely my personal observation and conclusions as an individual who is assessing the various offerings available locally.

This post has been edited by Jason: Jun 17 2021, 01:13 PM

I guess it is the same as why there is a need to have a Monash Malaysia, Swinburne Sarawak and Nottingham Malaysia as well. Any institutions that sets up and offers degree programmes in Malaysia needs to be accredited by MQA (actually the irony is there is a statement by MQA that says - accreditation is NOT compulsory). And the thing is that I am fairly certain that all these institutions needs to have a registered entity as well - for example Curtin University Malaysia Sdn Bhd - in order to apply for a license.

Actually - Monash Parchment does not state Australia. It just states Monash. I would need to ask if Nottingham, Reading and all states Malaysia in its parchment or transcript or not. I am also unsure of Swinburne and Curtin. Do you know for sure if it shows Curtin Australia or just Curtin?

In the case of UOW Australia - this is something they have practiced with the UOW Dubai campus and UOW Hong Kong as well. My opinion is that we have certain national and regional quirks that allows for the differentiation.

Btw - UOW Malaysia is also subject to the quality controls, processes and systems that is practiced in UOW Australia.

But yeah - thanks for the feedback and queries. I guess it also makes us - me especially wonder about the rest of the other FBC in Malaysia and how they are run in terms of parchments and transcripts. Would love to hear some feedback from the graduates at these universities.

I'm from Swinburne and I can confirm that Swinburne's certificate does not state Sarawak campus. The degree awarded is identical to the one in Australia,

Yeah - i just did a check. Most of the other Foreign Universities (or known as FBC) in Malaysia (Heriot Watt, Swinburne, Curtin, Monash and Nottingham) all has the transcript and parchments just stating the university name without location. Although some has the 'Completed in Malaysia' word printed in the Transcript.

I am not sure (with the exception of Monash) the rest would state the country if the parchment was given out in the host Country. Eg: Curtin University will state Curtin University Australia if you graduate from Australia. I know Nottingham prints out the names of all three campuses - United Kingdom, China, Malaysia.

I guess it is different with UOW Malaysia as we are not a Foreign Branch Campus (FBC). KDU University College was acquired by UOW Australia and had a name change as per Ministry of Higher Education regulations. Acquisition means the purchase of the whole university licenses including MQA approved and accredited courses.