Verify with SMU first if the degree entrance is the real deal or
not (i.e. Scully you have to be actually be in that university
physically taking that degree and not through local private
institution, etc)
Things to note on private degree is their modules track and
their quality. Although you may be taught here but your exam papers
might be flown to the actual Uni for marking. In that case, your
grade is based on the Uni Professor grading and not through ur
local assessment. Hence if your educator here is f**k up, you can
get screwed easily so do take note.
If you must, try to see if you can take via well established
private educators. First, they are less likely to fold. Second,
their modules are more structured where there are classes, do note
there are some private schools that organised their classes
differently where you have to do a lot of "self learning". So if
you are the kind that cannot self-discipline, you are going to have
a hard time.
Lastly, you have to weigh your odds, what if you get the private
degree and you can't get into SMU Masters? Find out their
acceptance stats and their class size, if the class size is small
your chances are diminished rapidly because you are not only
competing with ppl like yourself, you also have ppl who have
degrees from the local Uni trying to get in also.
I do not know ur background so I am giving my 2 cents from a
Engineering/science perspective, Uni is going to be totally
different, example, there are some course in Uni that are finish in
one semester that covers 2 or more years of work in poly. And
Uni (in general) tends not to practice poly system of "I feed you
everything, you vomit everything in exams" approach, testing modal
are usually focus on seeing if you have understood hence you get a
lot of "thinking questions" even in labs practical, etc.
You have to judge for yourself how much is needed for your plan
study, the key idea here is dun disadvantage yourself by choosing a
shorter route. You have to dig a lot of information here before you
can make a better judgement.
