here i will list out all the cons of a local u based on my personal experience,

for IPTA, you will not get the EXPOSURE , you will be like a katak di bawah tempurung , you will not be exposed to real university life, western education styles, western thinking .....bla bla........, in local u's , its more like schooling than uni, wif strict rules and stuff,such as gals hav to wear long jeans to classes and even around the campus, same applies to guys, and the environment and atmosphere around the campus is just so dull and boring. it sounds more like you are in an islamic university.

and IPTA do hav long credit hours, at more than 20 hours a week, and you hav to learn stupid subjects that are not related to the course at all....


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a student from an IPTS will possesses high social and PR skill ,sporting, open mindedness, pro-activeness, high exposure, western style thinking, outgoing, high self esteem, extrovert..............

a student from an IPTA will be close minded, conservative, shy, lack the social and PR skill, getting virtually no exposure at all, malaysian and 'islamic' style thinking, low self esteem,introvert................

academically and skill-wise, both will be almost the same altho IPTA will have a slight advantage on this....

IPTS will be 10x the price of IPTA.............

so which wan do you choose? or more specifically, which type of person do you choose to be?

well, i noe dat my views are a little extreme and unfair, but dat is what i had experienced at local u's. I am currently a first year student at UM and i am commenting from wat i had xperienced. in local u's , there are many strict rules and regulation that makes the whole study environment dull and boring. There are also the type of 'islamisation' and 'political agendas' that you hav to go thru in a local u. For example they hav subjects glorifies a religion and the 'one race', that they force every student to take and its a must pass subject.

not to mention the bias-ness and unfairness of lecturers marking papers, for example, i hav a paper, which i got A for mid term, and B+ for 'quizzes', and in the end , i got a C for my total marks, how on earth can i get a C if i get A and B+? and i hav some of my frens, who got AA , but for the total marks, they are given a B, ironic isnt it? while for the 'other' students, most of them got F, but they are given a D!!. this is the kind of biasness and unfairness you hav to go thru in IPTA.

and not to mention the way courses are taught, its more like schooling than uni, the lecturer will oni teach and the students will only copy and students are only required to memorize to get good results.....there is no communication between lecturers and students and students are not equipped with the thinking skills taught in IPTS.

definitely i am comparing my IPTA wif renowned IPTS like taylors, sunway, monash , notingham.......etc, and not wif some lesser known IPTS like kdu, kbu, segi, inti etc, and there is also lesser known IPTA's like UUM, UNIMAP, UMK and etc that are 10x worst than the well known IPTA's. so you cant compare a uni like segi wif lets say um or usm. good IPTA's and good IPTS's produce academically good students, while poor IPTA's and poor IPTS's produce academically poor students.....

its more like comparing the kind of social and thinking skills you get from those uni's than comparing academical performance.

conclusionally, academically, IPTA students wins by a slight margin over IPTS.
but socially, IPTA students will fail horribly...........

so if you r an outgoing dynamic and sporting person, u r better off to IPTS, but if you are a quiet , introvert ,laid back, IPTA will suits you better......
and its definitely worth the large sum of money spent to go to IPTS's, the experience and exposure you get from an ipts will be vital for your future career....