7 Fakta yang anda perlu tahu untuk memilih IPTS
1. IPTS yang berdaftar dengan Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi.
2. Kursus pengajian yang ditawarkan itu masih sah laku.
3. Kursus pengajian diakreditasi oleh MQA (kalau dulu LAN).
4. Struktur yuran diluluskan oleh Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi.
5. Kemudahan dan infrastuktur yang lengkap dan bersesuaian.
6. Kursus pengajian diiktiraf oleh JPA (Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam).
7. Disenaraikan dalam SETARA '09 Rating (untuk IPTS bertaraf kolej universiti atau universiti) atau MyQuest (untuk kolej swasta).
Semua saranan di atas adalah tips yang dikeluarkan oleh Jabatan Pengajian Tinggi, kementerian Pengajian Tinggi Malaysia. Jabatan Pengajian Tinggi juga menyarankan supaya pelajar meneliti perkara-perkara berikut untuk memilih IPTS yang paling sesuai:
- Semak dan fahami terma dan syarat yang ditetapkan oleh IPTS berkenaan.
- Melawat IPTS tersebut terlebih dahulu untuk melihat keadaan yang sebenarnya.
- Hindari dari terpengaruh dengan macam-macam tawaran dan iklan-iklan yang disiarkan di akhbar (seperti pinjaman wang, wang saku, komputer riba percuma dan sebagainya).
MyQuest: a ranking for Malaysian private colleges
MyQUEST (Malaysian Quality Evaluation System for Private Colleges) is a system developed by the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia, as an instrument to evaluate the current performance of private colleges in Malaysia in terms of students, programmes, graduates, resources and governance. The evaluations is necessary in order to push the education level in Malaysia to a higher standard. MyQUEST rating is an institutional rating of the private colleges, either overall or cluster. Five main criteria used in the assessment are students, resources, quality management system, programmes recognition and graduates recognition. MyQuest has one clear aim which is to provide guidance for students and parents in choosing the right programmes and colleges.
The exercise for data in 2010 was conducted between April 2011 and August 2011. All 400 active colleges in Malaysia were invited to participate with the exercise. By the deadline, 310 colleges have entered the online system. From 310 colleges, 232 colleges are qualified to be audited. After the auditing process finished in August 2011, the findings from the audit showed that only 210 colleges are qualified to be rated.
Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said the purpose of MyQuest is to categorise the colleges which are excellent, good, or weak, and prepare suitable approaches to help the weaker ones with their issues and challenges.
Over 60% of private colleges have been ranked as satisfactory with a score of four stars and above according to the first MyQuest. Of all the colleges, only three institutions, Penang Medical College, Segi College Subang Jaya and Taylor's College Subang Jaya were awarded the maximum of six stars (distinction) and received scores of above 90%. Apart from the top three colleges, 20 colleges (9.5%) attained five stars (excellent), and 60 colleges (28.6%) attained four stars (very good), with the remaining 72 (34.3%) receiving three stars and below. They are 55 three-star (good), 35 two-star (satisfactory) and 37one-star (poor).