Sin Chew Daily:
Due to Malaysian government's desire to lift financial burden and to increase postgraduate research students to improve our local public universities' world rankings, the number of undergraduates admitted to IPTA has dropped drastically for the past few years, shifting a big portion of the responsibilty in educating undergraduate to private universities and colleges in the country.
Session Number of Application Number of Qualified Number of Admission Admission Rate 2013/2014 68,702 57,802 41,573 60.5% 2014/2015 74,071 67,388 37,467 50.5%
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://education.malaysia-students.com/2014/08/50-chance-to-get-place-in-ipta-even-if.html?m=0