UNSW Asia- your thoughts? (2 Viewers)

[uberlovesounds]

Hmmm, i just had a peep at the UNSW Asia website, apparently they're going to have all the double degree combos in Singapore. Like Comm/Law, Comm/Eng, Science/Eng blah blah. In a way, I feel really stupid that I'm going to pay AUD $100,000 for my commerce/law degree (no regrets paying the money, it's a good course) but I know someone o/seas can easily get it as well.

Most probably, the grad certificate awarded in UNSW ASIA, will be just written as "UNSW", no reference to campus. The transcript however would probably say which campus. Still, I feel that UNSW is no longer that exclusive and we're becoming like Monash. Lol, is that a good or bad thing.

http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2007/jan/UNSW_asia_opening.html

 

[Casmira]

$100k for a com/law degree?!? isnt it just about $15k per year 15x5 = 75?

 

[seremify007]

Full fee paying?

*shrugs*

My cousin was most disappointed... she told her parents she wanted to study in UNSW (so she could come to Australia) and coincidentally, UNSW opened the Singapore campus near where she lives... no trip to Sydney anymore!

 

[Affinity]

its 20000 a year.. about right, think it's the same here in kensington.

Well... it's a matter of money.. Universities need revenue

 

[bshoc]

UNSW Asia- your thoughts?

I don't see the point - Kensington is already UNSW "asia"

 

[Affinity]

Kensington is impure.. they want somewhere pure.

 

[Casmira]

unsw kensington will prob have more asians than unsw asia

 

[uberlovesounds]

yeh casmira the new full-fee price is $19 800++/year.. are there that many international students in unsw? to what degree? i'm doing commerce and law so i guess it's a pretty good choice for international students..

 

[Casmira]

are there many international students in unsw?? yes, lots. you can filter them out from the abc's simply by the fashion!

 

[chris_c28]

They did this because they can. UNSW Asia doesn't sound 1/2 as weird as University of Sydney, Singapore. Now that will sound wrong, don't you think? Note they emphasise on the use of the abbreviated form. Same reason why I can see Monash in Malaysia, but not University of Melbourne Malaysia.

 

[uberlovesounds]

ha! never thought abt that way. that's true, it would sound hella weird..