Eventually, i recommended to choose NUS/ NTU. So far, my experience with one of the top notch UEC science stream students from previous batches (May be no. 1 in Msia, as he scored full A1 with 4 science subjects as top 10). In the end, he chose to study in NUS without considering other universities.

My vote goes to Tsinghua/Peking U for China economy, science and technology are growing by leaps and bounds.

20 years before your son goes into retirement China's economy would be No. 1 in the world.

See how they turned other's (US) 4G technology/IP into huge and pioneering business in Ali baba, Tencent.

5G ??? bye bye the West.

Don't forget unrivalled moon landing and Mas exploration. Chinese space exploration scientists are 30-40 yo and US scientists are aging at 50-60 yo. Again, bye bye the West.

This post has been edited by zeng: Mar 5 2022, 06:04 AM

Not all identical courses are offered by the 4 Uni.

No he did not apply for pure civil engineering, but environmental. And for NUS their environmental engineering is a special one



And also not computer science that he applied for. It's CEG actually.

As an accounting professional myself, during my first job I did see better ranked Uni grad having 10-20% better pay. Than me actually. Maybe diff field is different.

No, for Tsinghua, also he is admitted to the broad aerospace faculty, he will choose Energy and Power engineering on year 2 as his major. If he ever goes there.

And lastly yes, we want him to venture outside of MY. Either China or SG is ok, but not MY. I am too fed up with the politics situation here.

See my reply on top, the environmental engineering from NUS is a special one. But I said we hope he gets computer engineering, haha greedy father.

And no, I am here for all the valuable pro and cons opinions, channel it down to my son and let him think through carefully and decide for his own future.

If UEC can get placement in Oxford or Cambridge I will not consider other options too. Haha, but for the 4 that he applied, I feel obliged to find out a bit more for him. Child at his age, with 2 years study from home in 2020 and 2021, they tend to get mature a bit slower than normal. What to do ?

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Here's my opinion after reading the modules offered in the environmental engineering.

First of all, a disclaimer. I studied mechanical engineering for my bachelors and chemical engineering for my masters, so i can only comment on the parts other than the digitalization of urban infra

Judging from their modules, i do not think the graduates are going to learn a lot about the engineering world. The modules sound rather surperficial,but i am not sure about the digitalization part thought If your son really wants to be a engineer that is exposed to the fundamentals of engineering and have a wider array of choice after graduation, i'd recommend the aerospace/energy engineering course The modules look very useful and comprehensive, but get prepared to be fucked, real hard

Lastly, your son needs to know that energy engineering is not the same as environmental engineering. i had to take the courses of both branches during my uni years, and the energy engineering is wayyyyyyyyyyy harder than the environmental


This post has been edited by Username is for the weak: Mar 6 2022, 08:14 PM

I believe in recent time, nus/ntu will be the best choices. China still open it's borders to outsider. Eventually, some of my students who are in the first or second year in China university all choose to withdrawn from the uni and restart elsewhere. This situation may not be corrected so fast as the cases are still in a worry situation.

This post has been edited by keenjoy1413: Mar 18 2022, 03:47 PM

Finally we picked NUS over the rest, and my son already started studying in Singapore since end July.

And thanks to Singapore / NUS, we got a full scholarship with good living allowances