5/20/2010

How much is our world class education?

Singapore citizens pay about $7000 tuition fee per year at NUS for year 2010/11. International students pay about $11,000. We consider ourselves very lucky to receive a tertiary education in one of the top universities in the world. The tuition fee for Imperial College of London, the top 3 university in UK and ranked 5th in the world by Times is 3,290 pounds for UK and EU citizens. For international students the fee is 21,400 pounds for an Engineering course. Am I right to say that a UK or EU citizen is paying lesser for a world class education in Imperial College than our citizens in NUS? The exchange rate is S$2 to a pound. In fact practically all the universities in UK is charging the same tuition fee for UK and EU citizens.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

In the UK, foreign students help to subsidize UK and EU students, whereas locally its the other way round, the govt makes every citizen, including Uni students subsidize the 'scholars' from China, SE Asia etc.

Anonymous said...

What the heck! Why like tat?