Swansea or
UTP?
Do
you know the popular engineering university in Malaysia? Do you know that which
university has the only one advance oil machine among all of the other
university in Malaysia? That is UTP! The University Technology Petronas which
owned by the famous oil and gas company, Petronas . I will rather choose to
study at UTP instead of the Swansea University. I choose to study at UTP is
because of the internship program, finance and the culture in the university.
The
internship program that the UTP will gives to students is very attractive to
me. UTP offers a 7 months internship program when we move into our third year
in the degree course. The period of the program is the longest in Malaysia,
some of the university will only gives a program that is less than 5 months.
Through the long period program, students can gain a lot of working
experiences. The working experiences are very useful to them, they can use the
extra knowledge and the experiences to do well in their final year project.
Besides,
the tuition fee of UTP is moderate and suitable to students. We cannot
undertake a big amount of tuition fee. Student can apply for scholarship from
Swansea University to support the tuition fee too. Nevertheless, the daily
spend at United Kingdom is very large. Although we save the money for tuition,
the daily spend is much higher than at UTP. UTP is a local university and we
can easier to get suit to the environment. The flight ticket to Swansea
University is expensive, students will have less chance to back and be together
will their family. The transport at UTP is cheaper can more convenience for
students to back home during holidays.
Furthermore,
in UTP I can experience a lot of culture from other student whose are different
in race like Malay or Indian. There are a lot of international student in
Swansea University too and they have their own different culture. The students
might not practice their culture when they are studying there. Then we cannot
experience their culture, but Malaysia is a country full of art of culture,
students can experience a lot of culture in UTP, most of students are from
local and they do practice their culture here.
Lastly,
UTP is a university where will satisfy most of the local students, they will
not face finance problem and they can experience the good program and culture
of the students here. I do hope students who just graduated from their
secondary school to choose to study in UTP if they are aiming to become an
engineer. UTP will make you satisfied can provided a good environment for
study.
Chong Yew Yang
17130
Chemical Engineering