Difference between Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and so on ...
Here's a good explaination of the difference between various computer related degree titles.
http://compsci.ca/blog/6-degrees-of-computer-science/
MIT Opencourse
This is good news for students around the world. MIT has opened up their coursework material and let anyone view or download from anywhere around the world.
MIT Opencourseware (OCW) is a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. The access to a wide variety of couse material categorized by courses can be browsed here.
Admission Requirements for Singapore Universities
Once you have decided to come to Singapore and study here at one of the local universities, you'll need to know what are the entry requirements and assessment methods from the universities.
Undergraduate degree admission for the Singapore local universities requires a student to possess a GCE 'A' level pass certificate or equivalent certificate. SAT score is not compulsory anymore since a few years back.
Those who has graduated from local polytechnics can apply the undergraduate courses using their polytechnic diploma instead of GCE ‘A’ level cert.
Application is open around Feb/March for the intake of the courses that usually start in August of the same year.
Here are some links for admission information:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/publicportal/about+ntu/acad+admissions/default.htm
http://www.nus.edu.sg/oam/
Top 100 Global Universities
This top 100 universities list from MSNBC ranks Singapore's NUS (National University of Singapore) at position 36 and NTU (Nanyang Technological University) at the position 71.
Living in Singapore
Singapore is a small country really. When travelling on MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) train, a person can travel from its west end MRT station (Boon Lay) to the eastmost MRT station (Pasir Ris) in about 1 hour. (SMRT Travel Times). For staying in Singapore, its not really important to stay close by your school, polytechnics or university area. The transportation system is quite efficient here. But students tend to find places to stay near their school area (especially foreign students).
It is common to for foreign students to stay in a group of (usually) 6 persons in a HDB (Housing Development Board) flat.
Foreign students can rent whole flats or by rooms from local flat owners.
JTC (Jurong Town Council) is one other alternative which provide whole flat rentals for foreign talents. Here's the link to the current list of apartments for rent from JTC.
Rental cost from both owner flats and JTC flats are about the same.
3 Room Flats (2 bedrooms, 1 kitchen, 1 living room) cost about S$ 600 to 900 depending on location.
4 Room Flats (3 bedrooms, 1 kitchen, 1 living room) cost about S$ 1000+
If there are many ammenities near the flat, the rental rate is usually higher than average.
Oh, here's Singapore Street Directory site that I usually visit to find directions, flat locations or just finding something.
Infact, you can find some pretty high resoultion aerial images of Singapore at Google Maps.
I have also played around with Google API and created this page.
About Singapore (Country Information)
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore (Malay: 'Republik Singapura'; Chinese: 新加坡共和国, Pinyin: Xīnjiāpō Gònghéguó; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் குடியரசு, Ciŋkappūr Kudiyarasu), is an island city-state, located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometers (85 miles) north of the Equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north to the Indonesian Riau Islands. It is the smallest country in Southeast Asia.
Visit Singapore web site hosts information about Singapore for visitors.
Singapore Infomap site is the one stop portal for everything about Singapore.
Universities
Singapore's universities are ranked high among the world top universities.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are located at the western side of the Singapore main island.
The Singapore Management University (SMU) is specialized in business studies and is located at the heart of downtown area in Singapore.
Polytechnics
There are altogether 5 polytechnics in Singapore.
- Singapore Polytechnic (SP)
- Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP)
- Temasek Polytechnic (TP)
- Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP)
- Republic Polytechnic (RP)
- This entry at wikipedia describes more detailed info about the 5 polytechnics from Singapore.
Coming to Singapore
The following are the links that I would suggest the myanmar students to lookup for general info regarding the education system, immigration, living, expenses and various institutions in Singapore.
More will be posted later
Greetings
Greetings visitors!
This blog is dedicated to give information for those who want to study in Singapore.
First of all, I would like to intruduce myself. I am a Myanmar National from Singapore. I have been living in Singapore for about 7 years now. I have studied in Temasek Polytechnics when i first arrived here. After my diploma course at TP, I have become a Permanent Resident (PR) in Singapore and have been working at an IT company since then. I have also graduated from an Australian University after I have studied as a part time student at a private institution in Singapore. I am now happily married to my lovely wife and staying at our small flat at the western part of Singapore. I'll post more as and when I have information related to student life in Singapore.
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