NTU EEE part-time exams are the same as the full-time...same
exam time,same paper...
NUS B.Tech exams are different from its full-time exams(in
Engineering faculty)...
so technically speaking...doing NTU part-time is more difficult
since the paper is the same as full-time...
anyway I was told that there are accreditation issues with the
B.Tech...like not recognised for PE board...dunno true or not
lar...
You are partially right regarding the exam issues. Certain
modules, esp mathematics related modules, have their syllabi
different/modified/reduced from the ones the full-time students
study. Consequently the part time students and the full time
students sit for different exams. Most of the other modules are
pretty much the same and the both types of students sit for the
same exams.
Now, here comes a very important difference between the NTU and NUS
part-time courses. In NTU your grading will be done together with
the full time students, meaning, you will be competing with some
400 odd students for your grades. Consequently, even though you
might have done well your grades might get pushed down(i don't
expect any part-time student to be able to compete with a full time
student on equal terms). In the NUS version, the grading is
restricted to just your cohort of part time students, meaning, you
will competing for grades only with other part time students (say
about 100). Naturally your chances of getting better grades are
higher at NUS.
I know of people who studied at NTU for 3 sems only to quit and
join NUS. The reason.....how much ever effort they put in their
grades can never be high.
Another downside of the NTU degree is that, since it follows the
full-time curriculum exactly, you will have all those enrichment
modules to study for (and sit for exams). And the total number of
these enrichment modules turns out to be about 6!!! Thats almost 2
semesters and $6000.0 worth of modules that isn't going to be of
any practical use. The part-time students have to study modules
like genetics, economics etc etc.
On the upside................hey you get a degree exactly like the
full time students!!! You won't fall victim to the stigma that some
people seem to attach to part-time students.
I am not too sure how the employees look at the 2 degrees but NUS
Btech is accredited by the PE board of Singapore as well IEEE. You
can look at the link below:
http://btech.eng.nus.edu.sg/programme/eeInfo.html
