Life for professional degree courses like Architecture,Engineering, Medical in Australia is tough!
Unless your parents are millionaires funding your 3-4 years is near impossible.

This is not forgetting their super tough examinations and course works.

Read this news article: http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-ne...0765186626.html

It says foreign students have to survive on beans, weet-bix in plain water, free university bread hand-outs because of the surge in room rentals in Melbourne.Those greedy landlords cram up to 14 people into a single home with each person paying like AUD$150 per week while you only get to earn like AUD$100 per week doing odd jobs.

Quote from the news article above


KVReninem, can i ask how to you manage to beat the rising cost there?Seriously, just on rents, AUD$600-800 per month is insane.As I said, only millionaires can do professional degrees there.

Cost also increases as you approach the final year.

130k-150k is ok if you only have 2 meals on most days and be very thrifty with spending.
How much can you get away with your daily spending for transport and food?
Air fare to return to Malaysia say once a year?

Need to do some odd jobs if you want extra pocket money that is even if your parents can afford a near half a million education for your future.Enough to buy your daily meals.

Possible but barely just to make things easier.

Not easy with many uncertainties.If something comes up like if you fail 1-2 subjects, it's enough to drag you another semester which will prolong your study years.I don't want to instill fear but failing in Australian courses is not something impossible from experience.When they say your duration of study is 2-3 years that is if you manage to get through without failing any subjects.

Lol Empire23, and that was which year?
I supposed that was prior to SPM 2001.
After that, things got much better when "Musang Hitam" got replaced.