I think u should look deeper. given the short 10 yrs history of Monash in malaysia, what it has achieved is significant. Recall that UNSW's fail to build a campus in Singapore.

Look at the faculty profile of Monash Malaysia, it is getting more and more internationalised, over time it will have a good mixed of faculty with phds from around the world's good uni. whereas the Monash faculty based in aussie still has quite a serious in-breeding, in the sense that most of their phds are from Aussies uni.

Having a campus is totally different then offering through a 3rd party service provider.

Some still view that overseas campus of monash, curtin etc as inferior. A simple analogy is: Are Mckinsey people based in USA better/smarter than Mckinsey people based in KL?

The future trend for university is to go global and internationalization. Cornell, Carnige Mellon, Duke etc also have campus overseas. This is part of globalisation and is good for the students as : The world is my campus, the world is my oyster!"

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Added on January 21, 2009, 2:40 pmNottingham has a good reputation to start with. But being still very very young in malaysia, it still has problem attracting good faculty. Which is why you see so many Asst. Prof without PhDs. It will take a few more years before u start seeing more qualified lecturer at Nottingham Malaysia.

Therefore, Monash is still the best option.

This post has been edited by peterlee: Jan 21 2009, 02:40 PM

With the financial crisis and poor economy, i think it is not wise to increase fee. Rather, it should be reduced. otherwise, there could be an increase in students dropping out of the course as they tighten their budget.

Its the same question in singapore. Which is the top biz school in singapore?

NUS?NTU? no way. There is INSEAD, and Chicago BIz School there. Likewise, I would rank accordingly:

Monash (own campus),
Curtin (own campus),
Nottingham (own campus but very young and not so brilliant faculty profile, yet),
Swinburne (own campus, but young),
UM,
(a couple of other ipta?)
Lancaster (not their own campus, thru 3rd party service provider, so there is a difference in quality)

That is just an application, you have not paid the school fees. Personally, if you can afford, go for Monash or Nottingham.

If interviewer ask u whether u did ur degree in australia, this is ur model answer:

At monash/nottingham, the world is our campus. For some semester we study at clayton, sometimes in south africa, sometimes in malaysia.

And if another question/comment arises (say the company is a MNC, e.g. IBM):
I think there is a difference in the quality of students studying in malaysia vs those in australia.

Your model answer:
Well, I think the engineers/managers in IBM Malaysia is as good as their counterpart in USA. Don't you think so?

Anyway, that is just side talk...

People with engineering degree can also enroll into MBA program.