In recent years, the number of students studying abroad in Malaysia is increasing, which is also due to the high-quality teaching environment and advanced teaching equipment in Malaysia. Moreover, the domestic students in Malaysia account for a large proportion, indicating that studying abroad in Malaysia is still relatively popular in China. What common sense should we know about studying abroad in Malaysia?
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1, Malaysia entry requirements for students to study in Malaysia, need to first apply for a Malaysian student visa, only with a student visa and home passport, can successfully enter the country.
2. Entry Formalities in Malaysia According to the Malaysian Customs, if foreigners come from areas where infectious diseases are prevalent, they should be vaccinated before entering Malaysia.
In terms of the duty-free items that can be brought into the country, Malaysian Customs stipulates that students can bring 225 grams of tobacco or cigars, 200 cigarettes or 1 liter of alcohol.
3. Introduction to the currency of Malaysia The national currency of Malaysia is ringgit, abbreviated as RM in the international market. One ringgit can be exchanged for 100 cents.
There ARE 5 KINDS OF PENNIES IN Malaysia, INCLUDING 11 CENTS, 5 CENTS, 10 CENTS, 20 CENTS and 50 CENTS, which ARE IN circulation in the form of coins.
Malaysia’s notes are divided into 1 ringgit, 2 ringgit, 5 ringgit, 10 ringgit, 20 ringgit, 50 ringgit, 100 ringgit, 500 ringgit and 1,000 ringgit.
Currency exchange in Malaysia is very convenient. Foreign students can exchange money at major banks or authorized money dealers. If they carry traveler’s checks, they can also ask the bank to exchange them into ringgit, but they need to show their passport.
If students are traveling or studying in more remote parts of Malaysia, they need to exchange their currency in advance.
5 tips used to Malaysia, Malaysia and Chinese, waiters are not accustomed to, this is mainly because hotel or restaurant in Malaysia are usually directly charging the guest service fee will be 10% of the amount of consumption, if there are individual consumer place clearly marked on the bills need to pay the service fee, the students can be 10% tip for the waiter.
As for the object of tipping, it is mainly the hotel service staff and porters, and doormen, drivers are rarely required to tip.
6. Malaysia has a five-and-a-half-day work week, so many places are open every Saturday morning.
Specifically, government office hours are Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 16:15, Saturday from 8:00 to 12:45;
The bank is open from 10:00 to 15:00 Monday to Friday, 9:30 to 11:30 Saturday;
The supermarket is open from 10:00 to 22:00 daily.
7. Telephone Service in Malaysia If you want to make a call in Malaysia, you can go to a telephone booth and use a public phone. Payment is by coin or phone card.
If you want to make international calls, you need to go to the Telecommunication office or use an international calling card.
If international students want to make international calls after checking into the hotel, they need to pay the service fee to the reception desk and ask them to open the IDD service for international calls.
8. The Postal Service in Malaysia The office hours of the Malaysian Post Office are from 9:00 to 17:00, and the office is closed on Sundays and holidays. Even very high-end hotels have postal service offices.
9, the custom of Malaysia Malaysian attaches great importance to personal courtesy, in particular to respect their elders, Malaysia people think the left hand is unclean, so very few people live in Malaysia with your left hand to touch objects, malaysians are not used to the man stretched out his hand to ask the lady shaking hands, also can’t use hand to touch anyone’s head.
1. Accommodation — Each student can obtain the required on-campus dormitory: Under normal circumstances, the on-campus dormitory will be given priority to the students who apply to study abroad.
Depending on the number of residents, the monthly charge for each room in the on-campus dormitory ranges from RM280 to RM750.
Off-campus dormitory: Relatively cheap, mainly townhouses, charging RM180-RM350 a month.
2. Cost of living — By the Person Malaysia has one of the highest standards of living in Asia.
However, compared with Western countries, the cost of living in Malaysia is low, and the prices of basic daily necessities such as food and clothes are very reasonable.
The average cost of living for international students in Malaysia is around RM650-RM1,000 per month, depending on one’s lifestyle and course.
Basic monthly expenses for international students can be estimated as follows: Items of consumption: Accommodation, water, electricity, board, transportation, communication books and stationery, medical insurance Other personal expenses: RM180-RM350 per month (rent varies depending on location, type of accommodation, facilities and number of people living together), S $300-450 (RM10-15 per day for three meals), others.
3. Banking Services Most banks accept traveller’s cheques and foreign currency exchange.
A bank draft drawn by a bank in the form of RMB allows easy transfer of money into the account.
The money will be in your account within a day or two of receiving the draft.
And cheques written by banks that do not have branches in Malaysia can take up to three weeks to arrive.
4. Transportation — Convenient and fast Public transportation can be found everywhere.
You can pay with cash or an E-Zpass.
Many tickets allow unlimited bus travel for one day.
5. Communication — Convenient and cheap The public telephone system in Malaysia is widely available in all areas, and the telephone charge is low. Local calls are 80 cents per minute. Please note that only 1 cent coins can be used for coin phones.
International call rates range from RM0.4 per minute to RM0.18 – RM0.25 per minute for IP card calls to China.
Mobile applications are convenient and inexpensive.
Mobile phones brought from China can be used with SIM cards from Malaysia.
School application fee: 90rmb is the fee paid to the school during the application, which is mainly used for the school to review the materials. After the approval, the offer can be issued. so this is a must be paid!
Notarization fee of materials: 200rmb/ each application school needs to notarize your graduation certificate and transcript. At this time, it needs to pay a fee, and the domestic notary office needs 200 RMB for one copy.
Passport handling fee: 250rmb overseas real estate passport is also necessary, before you decide to study abroad, you need to start to apply for it, the fee is 200 yuan, if you take passport photos at the scene, you need to charge 50 yuan.
Visa processing fee: 230rmb After getting the offer, you need to start to apply for the visa!
In addition to the preparation of materials, but also need to prepare a certain handling fees, generally do down the need 230 yuan.
After you get the offer, you can go to the international Travel Health Care Center for physical examination. According to the charging standard of each city, the general physical examination fee ranges from 500 to 700 yuan.
Specific requirements to the school as the standard.
1. English intensive class is inevitable, general English intensive can not be three months for a period, the cost is about 1450-3866 yuan, good schools will be more than 2000 yuan.
2. Introduction to the tuition fees of Malaysian universities: The tuition fees of undergraduate courses in Malaysian universities are generally 30,000 RMB, and the tuition fees of master’s courses are about 50,000 RMB.
This is also a rough estimate, because fees vary from college to college.
3. Private University Tuition in Malaysia: The high quality private universities in Malaysia are not only recognized by the Ministry of Education, but also have unique joint programs that allow students to obtain bachelor’s degrees issued by the UK, the US and Australia at a cost of only one third to one quarter of the cost.
Its partner institutions not only rank high in the world but also have a wide range of fields. France, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other places have reached cooperation agreements with high-quality private universities in Malaysia to jointly train students, and many students have successfully gone to a third country for further study or even emigrate through joint courses.
Private university undergraduate: Tuition: 40,000-50,000 RMB/year;
Miscellaneous expenses: about 7000-10000 RMB/year;
Private university master: Tuition: 70,000-90,000 RMB / 12-18 months (the specific fee according to the standard of each school);
A language course (English) for students enrolled in a private university who do not have an IELTS or TOEFL score.
Language: 3-6 months;
Tuition: 3,800-5,500 RMB per month (the specific fee shall be subject to the charging standard of each school).
4. Tuition Fees of Public Universities in Malaysia:
Highly renowned public university in Malaysia international, not only in Asia ranked is superior, the more the ranks of the institution into international famous university, the open courses across many different professional and field, it is worth mentioning that public university tuition cheap, it greatly reduces the family economic pressures and the students’ psychological burden, good students can also apply for a scholarship.
Malaysia’s public schools are all funded by the government, so it is unlikely that there will be an incident like the “closure” of Australian universities.
